A winters day with presents

Merry Christmas! (or whatever you happen to celebrate).

Today is supposed to be celebrated as a day of loving and giving. It has changed hasn't it?

Walk with me down memory lane....

When I was little I would wake up early, really early, almost ungodly early, like 4 am. I was so excited to see what I would get. My parents always set a time that my brother and I were allowed to wake them up and that was normally around 5:30. So my brother and I would get up and talk and guess as to what the presents were for an hour and a half. Then we would rush in waking up my parents and dragging them to the tree so that we could go through our stockings and open presents. We always had many more than out parents. Then my mom would make breakfast as we played with out new presents, none of which where practical. Then we would have pancakes and bacon and fresh fruit. Then we would spend all day playing and spending time with the family.

It really was nice. I know it must have been a lot of work for my parents, but it is something I look back on fondly.

It all changed as we started to get older. Now that my brother and I are both in college and we have to travel home for holidays it is harder to buy presents and let others know what you want. Let me walk you through this holiday.

I woke up around 9 and my brother woke up around 11. After finishing a movie we opened our presents. Mostly useful stuff as in a laptop bag and a cook book, I'm not complaining though. I really do appreciate that stuff. Also some sweaters. Then we went on to breakfast. I helped for a bit but mostly played sodoku. Then there was some down time where we helped set up our new computer. Then some more TV, and I straightened up my room a bit. Check my computer/email/facebook and then help make dinner. Now I am waiting for a bit to go to a movie with my mom. Oh times have changed but they are still nice.

Just thinking about it I guess so I decided to write about it.

Again Merry Christmas and if you aren't of the christian persuasion I hope you had a lovely winters day!

Ta Ta