A Mrs. Miracle Christmas: A Novel

A Mrs. Miracle Christmas:  A Novel by Debbie Macomber 368 pages

A good story with a bit of supernatural thrown in with angels doing cameos here and there.   When Laurel and her husband Zach move in with Laurel's grandmother, Helen, to help keep an eye on her after Helen starts exhibiting signs of Alzheimers (getting lost in her neighborhood, going to school thinking Laurel is still a little girl and that she must pick her up from school, leaving the oven on which could have caused a fire)  it becomes more than a notion to keep up with Helen.   Laurel and her husband both work so it is decided that rather than putting her in home, they will try to afford a daycare worker to come in and stay with Helen.  Entre' Mrs. Miracle - an angel on assignment from the Arch Angel, Gabriel.  The story takes off and is an enjoyable one all about the Christmas season, programs, decorations and heavenly choirs.   Everyone thinks that Grandma Helen is a little spacey when she starts chatting about angels and the prophetic things that she and Mrs. Miracle have been discussing.   And Laurel gets very self-centered over an adoption gone wrong and starts behaving as though she is the center of the universe and every mention of children, adoption, whatever is never supposed to be said in her hearing because everyone is being mean to her.  The big whine bag she needed to get taken down and called out every time she treated her husband like dirt if he dared to mention trying to adopt again.   Laurel gave him grief that he was insinuating she wasn't good enough to bear children and on and on.   Frankly, I don't know how the poor man tolerated it as well as he did.  She was awful to him and he wasn't the only one.   It was like everyone in her presence was never to have an opinion on anything baby-wise or they were treating her badly.  Personally I wanted to get her in check - she was not the center of the universe and everything did not revolve around her nor everything nor ever word spoken did not pertain to her.   People have things to say that they wanted to share and for her to act like such a jerk just made me want to tell her about herself.   Read the book and you will see what I mean.   In spite of her nasty attitude it was still a pleasant story and I did enjoy it.