----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean-Louis Couturier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2002 7:38 PM Subject: Re: Michael
> Jean-Louis wrote : > >> In the good old days, I had to go to bed early, was expected to sleep > >> until I was > >> woken up to go to Midnight Mass after which we'd get our presents and > >> stuff > >> ourselves silly. > >> > > Le Jeudi 26 d�cembre 2002, � 07:52 , Julia Thompson a �crit : > > > > Oh, we *never* got presents until we'd slept and gotten up the next > > morning. > > > > Presents this year didn't happen until close to 10AM here. Nobody was > > forced out of bed until sometime after 8 AM, and nobody started with > > presents until everyone had had breakfast, and for the > > caffeine-dependent, coffee. The only person likely to be extremely > > impatient about the whole thing doesn't understand Christmas presents > > yet, and he wasn't interested in opening them right off the bat. And > > once the new alphabet blocks were unwrapped and the top taken off the > > box, that was it -- no interest in any other presents for quite awhile. > > (I think all of them are out of the box now; we take turns, me packing > > them in their box, him removing them, and I repacked them around 2PM. I > > wouldn't be surprised if there's not a single block in the box now.) > > We did have to wait for Santa to come by. He'd coem in through the > front door > (no one ever used my grandfather's front door except Santa) with his big > sack > full of presents and me and my cousins would sit around while he took > presents > out of his bag and called out someone's name. That person would then go > sit on > Santa's lap, answer a few questions (Yes, I've been nice, Santa.) and > open the > present. > > Fun times. Oh, some years, Grand-Papa would take out his fiddle and get > my uncles > and aunts to dance. > Now *that* sounds colorful and quite cool! Thats the kind of multiculturalism *I* would like to see preserved. xponent Something Worth Appreciation Maru rob _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
