Christmas is often the most wonderful time of the year for many—a season of joy when gifts are exchanged and families are united. While many Americans eat, drink, and make merry with family and friends, some military families will have to spend this Holiday thousands of miles away from their loved ones on deployment.
Missing her deployed Marine sergeant husband Andrew Smith, who had to spend his first Christmas away from their 3-year-old daughter Charlotte in 2017, military wife Andrea Smith, of North Carolina, came up with a creative way to brighten an otherwise lonely Christmas.
