Home at last, home at last, thank God almighty, home at last!  Yep, it's Monday, we're back home in the double-wide here in Palm Springs and it's CHRISTMAS EVE!  Mexico was GREAT, but it always feels sooooo good to lay down on our pullout sofa sleeper and enjoy a bag of Cheetos.  Besides, it was wierd watching Law & Order reruns in Mexico with the voices dubbed in Spanish and English subtitles. 

Anyway, it's December 24, Christmas Eve, which means a lot to folks of our faith.  It means we'll get a free dead pine tree delivered by the Rotary Club, we'll get a free grocery bag of other people's leftover, out of date canned goods from the Kiwanis Club and a free Ham dinner tonight over at the Sisters of Mercy.  Oh yeah, and even though our kids have been old enough to be tried as adults for years, we signed up for "Toys for Tots," so we're also expecting a delivery of stuffed animals and Fisher/Price "learning" toys that we can unload at the swap meet next weekend - hopefully for a new exhaust system for the Harley!  It's great to be christian at Christmas, which is why we always choose it for the month of December.

Actually, there are downsides to Christmas Eve as well, but we just figure they're the price we have to pay as two of God's choosen people.  The shopping mall is always packed on December 24 and it takes forever to get a hotdog on a stick at the food court.  Our bail bondsman always turns off his cellphone during the supervised visits with his kids, so we have to be extra careful, or be prepared to spend some extra time in a "holding cell"  And, if those little bastards come around the trailer park with their candles singing Silent Night off-key again we're breaking out the pellet rifle!  The good news is that somewhere in the middle of all of this mayhem and chaos we know that our check from the county will be delivered early this week - it always is...

ON A SERIOUS NOTE:  Please take a moment and say a silent prayer for all of our military personnel serving away from their families and loved ones all around the world this Christmas - including our son in the 1st Marine Aviation detachment stationed in Okinawa, Japan and currently somewhere on an aircraft carrier off the coast of North Korea.  We all live FANTASTIC lives because of the service of hundreds of thousands of EXCELLENT women and men that have volunteered to serve our country.  We personally don't believe in war, but we support our military personnel.

      
We love the home cooking at Christmas!                               And, of course we love the parties - Bowling & Karaoke!

      
Christmas pastries are the year's best!             Why not just get drunk and pass out?  You'll never hear the snoring!