Christmas Passed....

Christmas has come and gone...It was really mixed up for us this year. Between work schedules for Wolfman and myself we didn't get to spend the holiday as a full house. Kirby was with his dad for Christmas Eve and Christmas morning, then with me Christmas Afternoon and back to his dad the day after Christmas. With plans with family and stops by friends houses, getting Wolfman to work and doing pick up and drop offs it was a busy day. Kirby and Monkey Dude Jr. agreed to open presents when we were all home as a family. Just like last year Santa visited us later than he did many other families.

Wolfman and I tortured Kirby and Monkey Dude Jr. Kirby wanted a laptop and Monkey Dude Jr wanted a PSP. MDJ has wanted the PSP for the last 2 years and this year we couldn't say no. Do you remember being a kid and wanting something so much it hurt? Kirby didn't expect a laptop for Christmas but that is what he truly wanted. So this year the boys got the one item they wanted and a few small things and that was it....but once they got it, nothing else seemed to matter.

Anyway...back to the torture. Wolfman wrapped each gift for both boys in a layer of brown paper. Then in a layer of garbage bag, then a layer of Christmas wrapping, then another plastic bag, another layer of gift wrap, another paper bag and finally the top layer of Christmas wrap.

Each layer except the final one had several strips of athletic tape around it too so they had to get through that as well. (We use this tape mainly for the ends of the hockey stick when we play street hockey) Its good for keeping us from tearing up the hockey sticks too much.

Each of them is working on getting their gift open. Monkey dude Jr. was fighting and fighting with his....So was Kirby....Kirby finally got smart....He got his pocket knife and tore through it all only to expose a cardboard box that held......drum roll please! Another cardboard box (empty) and an old alarm clock. I send Kirby upstairs for my laptop bag and when he brought it back I started to explain that I was giving him my old laptop and I was eventually getting a new one....He started to stutter he was excited....He was going to have a laptop...when I pulled this new laptop out he looked at me funny and said, "What is that?" I looked at him and smiled held out the new laptop and handed it too him, saying, "Merry Christmas! This is your new laptop."

Here he was thinking he was getting my old one and realized he got a brand new one. He is so efficient with his laptop now and organized...It's amazing...

Monkey Dude Jr. finally borrowed Kirby's knife and could hardly breathe when he got the PSP. He was absolutely thrilled! Of course the gift opening ended with that gift even though there were a few more left...Nothing could have out did that! Although they had to open a few more to get programs and games for their respective devices.

All in all it was fun to see faces that excited!

We had to keep the belief in Santa alive hopefully one more year. The kittens got a stocking too!

Now...Preparing for next year.....

In the middle of our Christmas season it snowed....It rarely snows here! Where we are here we got about 14 inches. Other areas within 10-20 miles got over 2 feet! I went to pick up Kirby from his dad at Kirby's grandparents house...The snow was already 2 feet deep. As I traveled down the back road several cars were stopped ahead. I stopped got out and walked up about 10 cars only to find a large firetruck in the ditch. They closed the road so they could dig it out.

After 30 minutes they got it out and moving....The truck went up the road about 500 feet and got stuck again...So there were about 6 firemen digging it out...AGAIN....

They were right at the road where I needed to go...So I went around them and picked up Kirby as I headed back the fire truck was now turned around going back the way they had come to be stuck in the snow yet again! 3 times in the same 500 foot section of roadway....While we sat waiting for the fire truck to be unstuck the first time I saw a transformer blow right in front of me. It was about 1 and a half the length between telephone poles away...I had never seen one blow up before....I have seen the flashes of light....I didn't believe they let off sparks and flashed and flamed....You know how it is on TV? That's almost exactly how it is in real life. It was absolutely amazing. I thought the guy in the jeep who had purposefully run himself into a snow bank had hit the pole but that was not the case. The snow was too heavy on the lines.

It was truly amazing.......Quite the fireworks show.

Anyway....Enough about Christmas...It was good! I hope yours was good as well!

All the best to you this new year!

Until next time........

~Kasey~