The Real Christmas

Today felt more like Christmas to me than yesterday did. We had 17 people here. No fancy meal or anything but lots of people sitting around the snack table. There were kids running around screaming, pets underfoot, adults discussing serious type stuff. To me this was Christmas. Christmas should always have multitudes of children around. Now that I'm too old to get many toys to play with, I want to watch others play with toys. Even if the one I'm watching is my dad who stole one of the cousins remote control cars. The littlest ones were running in circle after circle along with the train. I was very surprised that nothing horrible happened to either train or child. I think I might be willing to move more of Christmas to the day after and establish a new tradition. I'd rather have family together than celebrate on a specific day. Although I think I'd still need to do something special on Christmas itself if possible.