A Home for Christmas

Rebecca (Becca) Dosey has been gone from her childhood home over ten years. Willa, her mother, is recuperating from a serious fall in a nursing home. Unable to return to work, Willa worries about where she’ll live on disability income. Becca’s determined to fix up the old family home by Christmas as a permanent home for her mother.

She meets an old family friend, Rolly, and his granddaughter, Callie. With Callie’s help the clean-up and rejuvenation of the old house takes place. Callie goes with Becca to a nearby university one morning, and listens to her practice for a performance where she relates the circumstances of her mother’s disappearance two years prior.

Susanna Slade, a friend of her mother’s has been keeping the taxes paid on the house and a few acres of land since Willa left. Her son, Jeremy, is dumbfounded when he learns of it. He confronts his mother, she hands him a long confession her husband wrote the day before he died. Apparently, Jeremy’s dad felt responsible for the death of Bill Dosey over ten years ago.
Jeremy takes off to spend time with a woman, Veronica, he’s been seeing for a while, and someone he hopes to marry. While he’s gone, Susanna learns Jeremy has been making changes in the operation of the ranch without discussing it with her. She goes through the books and discovers he has been spending quite a bit on Veronica.

Becca gets invited to a choir concert where Rolly and Callie attend. Impressed with their performance, she talks the people where she is to perform on Christmas eve into having the church choir join her on stage for a few songs.

Susanna and Jeremy join Willa at the Christmas eve concert where they learn Becca is the star of the show that evening.

On Christmas Day, Rolly opens the front door to his home and sees his daughter, Judith. She’s had amnesia and been living in a small town in Texas the last two years. Her memory flooded back in when she saw Callie singing with the choir in the Opera House where Becca was performing.

They all meet at Susanna’s for Christmas Day dinner and a year later another happy event.

Note: All musical pieces are in the public domain.