CHRISTMAS DAY 12/25/2011

After a short night and in our usual Christmas morning sleep deprived state, Ann and I were woken at o-dark-thirty by our cheerful son exclaiming it was time to continue the Cowley Family Tradition of a special Christmas Morning Feast.  So, loving to participate in it's preparation, we joyfully bounded out of bed and headed towards the kitchen. 

 With bacon and sausage, scrambled eggs, hashbrowns

 hot cocoa, orange juice,

and toaster stroodle, we prepared for a long day of feasting and present opening.

 The kiddies were released from their bedroom, where they traditionally had all slept together on the floor and we were almost ready for the feast to begin.....

 ...when Mommy remembered one last item to place on the table.

 Then the feast began.  With Bing Crosby and Perry Como singing in the background we had our breakfast while the gazes of the kids was directed towards the tree and the bounty underneath.  Needless to say, the kids did not eat much!

 Then the other feast began!!!

 But first we opened the stockings that Santa had left....

 ...and Grandma found her stocking labeled "NICE"!!!  It is wonderful to know that Santa has Grandma pegged as that.  It is a natural state for her (You can see that she is still a little fuzzy from lack of sleep!)!

 The revealing process and bounty counting begins and lasted quite awhile!

 Then we cleaned up and went to church together as a family.  That was nice.

 When we got back from church, the preparations began for our Christmas Dinner.

 A yummy feast of Ham, mashed potatoes, mission sweet potatoes, green bean casserole, stuffing, and tons of other stuff, topped off by Ann's famous pies and ice cream made pigs of us all!!!  But then the feared of all calamities happened.  That oft ignored peril of every family feast!

 The attack of the finger-eating, killer olives! As they covertly attack and attach themselves to the fingers of innocent, unsuspecting, feasting children.  They make the eating of all other food impossible until each child must remove them one by one and eat those dastardly little black buggers.  Fear coupled with amazement is seen on the face of every little child thus attacked!

Will this horrible annual holiday torture of small children ever cease or are we destined as a human race to suffer this terrible plight every holiday?  Oh, the horror of it all!!!!!

But worse yet, is the misguided placing of incorrect labels on innocent grandfathers' stockings across the world, as they lovingly and trustingly hung by the chimney with care, the night before, their little humble sock for Santa to fill.  Naughty????  Now, we all know better than that!!!!  We, the members of the Paternal Order of Grandfathers Inc., to be thus treated!!!  It makes one question the whole of humanity!!!  Naughty????  Who could be behind this nation threatening plot!!!  Is it the makers of "Via-Rogue"??  Could it be the the same political leaders that introduced us to the "Age Gate Conspiracy"???

 

Merry Christmas!  We plan to stay in San Benito TT until Jan. 6th when we will head south for warmer climes!!