A Christmas Poem
'Twas four days before Christmas and all through our house
were two freaked out parents, trying to get their act together,
because this stuff is hard, you know, trying to make sure you've got all your ducks in a row, packing up for a trip out of town, to celebrate a holiday that, for us, is becoming more about spending time with those we don't get to see very often, and less about getting stuff, although getting stuff is always cool too, but these kids today are only worried about getting more, more more, (like Billy Idol), and they really lose sight of the meaning of Christmas, which is Jesus' birthday, according to Connor, at least, because that's what we say around here, since we've decided that we're not really gonna propagate the "Santa Claus" myth to our son, and instead tell him the outright truth as soon as he's old enough to understand that Santa ain't real, 'cause I think way too many kids have to find that one out the hard way while riding the bus home from school in the tenth grade when some smart-ass bully decides to crush their misinformed world view by not-so-subtley humiliating them in front of the entire world that Santa is a myth, but yeah, we're runnin' around like crazy people, and I feel like I thought my parents must have felt on Christmas Eve, tryin' to get everything taken care of before the sun came up and me and my brothers jumped out of bed, well two of us, since my older brother would sleep until nightfall if we had let him, but my point is that we've got far too much to do and much too little time in which to accomplish it, but we're gonna make it, because we're really looking forward to some well-earned relaxing time with our families, well except for the unnamed family member that always seems to have chronic gas of the worst smelling sort, but other than that, we're really happy to have some down time for the first time in a while, even though the next five days are gonna be really jam packed, what with jumping back and forth between our two families so that no one gets left out, so it's going to be tiring is what I mean, but we're ready, so bring it on.
By the way, is it bad to take an entire package of cold medicine all at once?
were two freaked out parents, trying to get their act together,
because this stuff is hard, you know, trying to make sure you've got all your ducks in a row, packing up for a trip out of town, to celebrate a holiday that, for us, is becoming more about spending time with those we don't get to see very often, and less about getting stuff, although getting stuff is always cool too, but these kids today are only worried about getting more, more more, (like Billy Idol), and they really lose sight of the meaning of Christmas, which is Jesus' birthday, according to Connor, at least, because that's what we say around here, since we've decided that we're not really gonna propagate the "Santa Claus" myth to our son, and instead tell him the outright truth as soon as he's old enough to understand that Santa ain't real, 'cause I think way too many kids have to find that one out the hard way while riding the bus home from school in the tenth grade when some smart-ass bully decides to crush their misinformed world view by not-so-subtley humiliating them in front of the entire world that Santa is a myth, but yeah, we're runnin' around like crazy people, and I feel like I thought my parents must have felt on Christmas Eve, tryin' to get everything taken care of before the sun came up and me and my brothers jumped out of bed, well two of us, since my older brother would sleep until nightfall if we had let him, but my point is that we've got far too much to do and much too little time in which to accomplish it, but we're gonna make it, because we're really looking forward to some well-earned relaxing time with our families, well except for the unnamed family member that always seems to have chronic gas of the worst smelling sort, but other than that, we're really happy to have some down time for the first time in a while, even though the next five days are gonna be really jam packed, what with jumping back and forth between our two families so that no one gets left out, so it's going to be tiring is what I mean, but we're ready, so bring it on.
By the way, is it bad to take an entire package of cold medicine all at once?
posted by Carter at 8:09 PM
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