It's Christmas Night...
See-through Sunday… On a Monday. 8:20pm is when my fingers hit the keys on this one. I have been awake since 6, and even that was on only about 6 hours of sleep, with reasoning for which I can only blame myself. I have no work tomorrow and could crash out RIGHT now, but I also don’t want to wake up at 3am, so I am pushing through it. I moved into this house in August 2009 and closed on it 12 weeks later. This is my 9 th Christmas under this roof, my 6 th one as a father. Somehow this one feels different. I spent it with both my existing and incoming families. I woke up and had to wait on the babies – one of whom is actually 19 – to wake up so we can start opening gifts. We made said babies breakfast, a tradition in my family. I am at the age where it is not about what is in the boxes, but for the reaction of everyone else in the room when they open theirs. The magic of t...