The Worst Christmas Ever!!

I'm taking a little break from putting the finishing touch on my Christmas giveaway for tomorrow for the Holiday Expo at the Internet Cafe.

While I was working on this, I was thinking about the "worst Christmas ever". I just can't help myself--I have to share this you.

A little background--my sister was actually my step-sister. We were 5 months apart in age and met each other at the age of 11 when her father started dating my mother. We were instant friends and grew to love each very much. There was no "step" about us--we were sisters and best friends.

She was a wonderful person, and I could talk her into anything. Her very favorite line to me was: "You are going to get us SOOOOOO in trouble!" Before I go any further here, I need to tell you that she had nothing to do with the fireworks going off in the high school auditorium--that was totally me and my "so-called" friends--she was innocent in that one!!

But, one Christmas, my mother, knowing how sneaky we (or just me) were, decided to fool us. She would go shopping and bring things home in bags, wrap them immediately and then store them under her bed. This way she thought there was no way we could look at our Christmas presents before Christmas morning.

But, my devious (at that time) mind was working!! When we came home from school, no one else was there!! Why not take the presents out from under the bed, just unwrap them a little to peek inside and then fix them back to their original state?? Oh, an excellent plan on my part!!

Oh, but my sister didn't want to go along with this!! " We're going to get in trouble, we're going to get found out, we're going to be punished for sure for this one!! Why do you always want to get us in trouble??"

I didn't want to get us in trouble. I just wanted to see what we were getting for Christmas--early!! I knew once I started doing this and seeing all the surprises that she would just fall in line right behind me--just like she always did!! And it worked!! We slightly opened and looked at each and every one of our Christmas presents that were hidden under that bed!!

Christmas morning arrives!! We open all the presents that we had already seen. What a great disappointment to know exactly what was in each of those boxes!! It wasn't fun at all!!

What a minute!! Mom had taken us shopping, and we had tried on suede jackets so she knew exactly which one each of us wanted and what size to buy. Where were the suede jackets? Surely she knew how much we wanted these? We were greedy girls at the age of 13, and everyone we knew had a suede jacket!!

Where were those suede jackets?? Hmmmm.....all the presents opened and on to breakfast--then to my aunt's house, another aunt's house, home again and then to bed--no suede jackets. What a disappointment on top of knowing everything else before we even received it as a gift.

This was the worst Christmas ever!! I had ruined it all on my own!!

Fast forward to March of the next year--we were doing our Saturday housecleaning. Mom was cleaning out her closet (so she said). She walks out into the living room where much dusting and vacuuming was going on.

She says to my sister and I, "Look what I found hanging in the back of my closet!! I forgot I had gotten these for you girls for Christmas!!"

A suede jacket for each of us--not forgotten--they had been there since before Christmas. But, I'm thinking that my mom felt that we didn't deserve these after the unwrapping and rewrapping fiasco.

Just goes to show--you can't fool your mom--you may think you can, but it's just impossible.

K--that's all for a while!!

Beth