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Walking around the snowman, I tapped my gloved finger to my lips, thinking. What should we call him?

It finally came to me!

“I know. I’ll call him Herbert.”

His eyebrows rose in disbelief. “Herbert? You sure about that? Don’t you want a more Christmas-y name, like Frosty or Chilly?”

“Nope. Herbert Melvin Snowman is our snowman’s name.”

He chuckled and wrapped his arms around me. “All right, sweetheart, if that’s the name that you want, then that’s what we’ll call him.”

“Yay!! Can we go sledding down our hill now?”

“Sure, I’ll go grab our sled from the car.”

“Super-duper double yay!” I shouted, listening to him laugh as he walked away. We were having the best of days.

Chapter Five

“Your nose is as red as Rudolph’s. It’s time to go inside, baby girl.”

I looked up at Daddy from the pile of snow that I was making into my princess castle. I was almost finished! All I needed to do was build the drawbridge and moat.

“But can’t we stay out here for two more minutes, please,” I begged him.

“No. It’s time to go in right now. I don’t want you to freeze.”

Standing up, I knew that there’d be no way to change his mind. “Fine.” I rolled my eyes and turned toward the door when I felt a smack on my ass. Whipping my head around, I saw that Daddy had his arms crossed over his chest and he had a stern look on his face.

My jaw dropped open. How had he moved so fast? He was hands down the fastest spanker in the Midwest!

“Watch that attitude, missy.”

“Yes, Sir.”

I rubbed my backside; thankfully, his stroke didn’t hurt that badly since I had my snow pants on. It’d be nice to be able to wear these snow pants every time I received a punishment spanking.

We entered through our laundry room door. The heat felt wonderful as it warmed my frozen nose.

“Let me help you get your clothes off.”

I nodded as he pulled my pink gloves off, followed by my hat and scarf. “There’s my little girl,” he chuckled as he gave me an Eskimo kiss. I pulled my head back when his cold nose touched mine.

“Hey! You’re frozen too,” I complained as he removed my coat.

“I guess I am. That’s why we had to come inside.” He helped me take off my boots and snow pants. Finally, I was back in my normal clothes and I felt great! Wearing wet clothing that was cold wasn’t fun.

“Would you like some hot chocolate, sweetie?” he asked as he removed his own snow gear.

“Yes, please!”

I danced off to the kitchen and went to the cupboard where my favorite mug was. It was white with a cute brown puppy on it.

“Did you get your dog mug, baby girl?”

“Yep!” I showed it to him. He smiled as he took the cup from me and set it by the mug that he’d pulled for himself.

He poured some water into the teakettle, set it over the flame on the stove to heat it, and turned back toward me.

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