Jean-Louis Couturier wrote:
>
> Le Mercredi 25 d�cembre 2002, � 02:52 , John D. Giorgis a �crit :
>
> > At 01:20 AM 12/25/2002 -0600 Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
> >> And what are you still doing up?
> >
> > Just got back from Midnight Mass and wrapping Christmas gifts, myself.
> >
> > And yes, I am driving to Phlly at 7am today!
> >
> > JDG
>
> <jealous>
>
> I haven't been to Midnight Mass in years. Seems my compatriots are
> actually
> wimps who can't bear to stay up that late. :-(
Well, half of us went to a midnight service, and the other half
(including the young child) stayed in. I let someone else drive. :) I
think naps were taken in the afternoon by at least one party who went.
(As well as by at least 2 parties who didn't go.)
> 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.
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.)
Julia
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