Christmas - An Extraordinary Holiday Essays -- Personal Narrative Writ

Christmas - An Extraordinary Holiday As I grow older, Christmas is the superlative holiday for my family and me. The powerful feeling of family is never any stronger than on Christmas Day. The dialect of the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve all seeps away as our children come running into our bedroom to see if we are awake yet. plain though our children are teenagers, the tradition doesnt change Santa is real if you believe in him.Ive seen our children wake up as early as 500 a.m. As our children awake us, my husband tries to draw out the anticipation by heavy them he needs to take a shower first. After more begging and grumbling, they agree and the three of us make our way into the kitchen to oven broil cinnamon rolls. While my husband is showering, we are in the kitchen preparing the cinnamon rolls. By the time he is done, the smell of the gooey sweet cinnamon rolls is rudderless through the house.As I pull the rolls out of the oven, my daughters are divide into the stockings Santa filled while visiting the night before. Santa always remembers Mom and Dad, too. W...