“Christmas”

“Did you leave a peppermint stick for old Saint Nick? Did you hang it on the Christmas tree? I hope you got what you wanted. I did … The world did not end. I am enjoying my 52^nd Christmas. At this very moment I am wishing I could step back in time that it was my 7^th Christmas. My father and brother would be alive. We all would be sitting with my mother, brothers and sisters having breakfast —Souse, ham, home made bread, Dixee crackers, Crix crackers, coffee, tea or Milo. Talking, laughing and anxiously waiting to open presents.