Our Own Christmas

     One year my entire family left for the holidays leaving me behind to celebrate Christmas alone. :( Correy would hear none of that, so we planned a "Our Own Christmas" event. Only Stephanie, Core and I were allowed in. I bought a honey ham, Stephanie brought green beans and stuffing, and Core brought himself and lots of presents.

     We had set up this tiny little tree not even up to my knee with like four ornaments, and a string of lights wrapped around it like a million times. We didn't have a topper so we just molded a tin foil star and put it on top of the tree. We decided that opening presents first instead of eating was a better idea so we went to work on it.

     The first present I opened was a turtle outdoor hanger thingy (it was beautiful - I have it hanging in my living room). Second present I opened was a penguin poster with all the penguins in the world (I love penguins = my favorite animal). Third was a childhood book I loved "The Giving Tree" which my son now loves. And lastly he throws this huge present at me. It knocked me off the couch and as he's laughing hysterically he helps me up. He sits there with this anticipation like "open it open it open it!" So I take my sweet a** time as Stephanie throws herself at the present and starts ripping at it.... all my clothes that I left in Correy's car from diving spill out (bras, underwears, socks, bathing suits, etc.), and at the bottom was this "Best Day Ever" SpongeBob blanket at the bottom of it! Hahaha! It was awesome!

     Then Stephanie got to open her gifts. First was a bottle of Jose Cuervo (don't ask me how he got a hold of it), second was two pictures of Japanese letters framed and everything. Then he hands her a big box only half wrapped.... So she starts unwrapping it, and she digs and digs and there's nothing in it but just crumpled up paper. Oh my gosh Correy and I were just rolling on the floor at her expression (utter confusion and absolute what the heck look). Then he hands her another present which is a Curious the George book. It was so funny. After we're done, Correy gets this really serious look on his face and says, "Yeah, so I'm going to need that box back, it's my moms." Hahaha, we thought he was kidding, but he was so serious.

     We forgot to set the timer for the ham, so we ate half burnt ham, and awesome stuffing and green beans. Quite possibly one of the most memorable times of my life.

***Ashley Caraway