Christmas

When I think back Christmas was really something. it meant the most, the best time of the year was coming. You got out of school for Christmas break that meant you got to go out and have fun even before Christmas even got there. There was all ways snow on the ground so you had all the stuff you could do in the snow snow men, snow ball fights, snow forts, going sledding, skiing, making money shoveling snow just in general having fun. Then there was the fun of  going Christmas shopping, back in the day when they had really dangerous toys erector sets, train sets chemistry sets, I remember the dog was crapping blue for a week, bow and arrow sets, BB guns that shot real BB's. Them old Christmas tree lights that would start a fire in a second, but would not work if one bulb was bad no matter how long it took you to find it checking one bulb at a time, those thin glass ornaments  that would break if you looked at them wrong. Standing in line for hours just to sit on Santa's lap and get your picture taken. When every place you went had big signs up that said "MERRY CHRISTMAS'. When mom and dad stayed up all night pretty drunk on eggnog and hot buttered rum drinks wrapping and assembling stuff. Back when Christmas was truly magical. And somehow we all survived. Smoking Dan.