he went underground ....
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i must say, i am more comfortable with the holiday now
than then ... all the stress - shopping, credit cards maxed out,
cooking, guests, dysfunctional family ....
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going way back into the memory machine, i remember the
"routine" my parents followed - they put us kids to bed
early on christmas eve so santa would come - then they woke us
up around midnight and we did the presents thing ...
then back to bed - the reason they did it this way was so that
when we woke up christmas morning, we would go down to play with
our new stuff and they could sleep in ... i guess they needed the
rest after spending hours with "assembly required" toys and
hunting for spare batteries when not included ....