Christmas Story

I’m barely able to sit still as I sit on the coach watching my favorite christmas classics with my family. On Christmas Eve we would always get together and watch National Lampoon’s Christmas’s Vacation and the cartoon version Of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, even though it was short it was always one of my favorites. We would finish watching our movies just before I was forced to my room to try to get some sleep.

No matter how hard I tried, my excitement mixed with my ADD hyper active self would never let me get much sleep. I was always the last to fall asleep and and the first one awake. I remember laying there staring at the ceiling thinking about what Santa Clause was going to bring me. I always felt as long as I didn’t get clothes, it would be a good Christmas. Finally, I would fall asleep only to be yelled at by waking all of my brothers and sisters up too early the next morning.

“Wake up! It’s time to open up presents,” I screamed. 

“Graham! Shut up! It’s too early!” Kellen said. 

After waking up my siblings, I would rush into my parent’s room to wake them up only to receive the same response. 

“Calm down, Graham. All of your brothers and sisters need to wake up before we open up presents,” My mom would say.

Eventually, we would all gather into the living room. I was always too excited to eat and would run straight to the presents. Before getting too ahead of myself, my mom would make us each open a specific present first. Now that we are older, we all know what it is before we even open it. The present is always a special ornament of a theme that my mom dedicated to each of us. Mary gets barbie ornaments, Chris receives football players, Kellen gets hunting and fishing ornaments, Jackie gets movie themed ornaments, I get trucks, and Sarah gets technology based ornaments. When i was younger, I thought it was boring and did not appreciate what my mom was trying to do for me. Now that I am older, I realize that she established a strong Christmas tradition for all of us kids. I am more appreciative of this tradition, and I can not wait to continue this for the rest of my life. I would even want to pass this tradition onto my future family and children as well.