Day to Day happenings in my life

Christmas Eve

Twas the night before Christmas.....you tell us what happens next?

Twas the night before Christmas and the old couple sat in their little house in the hills and reminisced about previous Christmases. Their conversations all began with,“Do you remember?”
And they did remember the sixty festive seasons they had spent together.
They remembered so many other Christmas Eves spent preparing for the onslaught of their children wakening them up at dawn, excited to see if Santa had actually been.

The old man, who had been young then, talked about all the train sets he’d erected, trampolines he’d put together and so many bicycles he’d lost count. The old lady reminisced about the long dining tables which seated over twenty guests and when she’d cook huge turkeys, Christmas puddings and all those roasted vegetables.

They smiled at the memories, thought how lucky their lives had been. But for now they were happy, content to be the people on the sidelines, simply watching their children, some who are now grandparents themselves, reenact the same traditions with their many offspring as they had.
The toasted themselves with a glass of port and said “tis the night before Christmas and time for bed.”
They kissed goodnight as they did each night and prayed for a peaceful Christmas for everyone.