6:30 am: It's the early hours of Christmas day. My brothers and I are gathered in my room counting down the seconds, trying whatever we can to make the time go by faster. Matt is playing cards with Cade and I am sitting on my bed reading a book. 7:00 am is a magical number come Christmas time in the Favaron household, for as long as I can remember this number signified the earliest moment that my brothers and I could wake up my parents to open gifts on Christmas.
6:55 am: As the magical time nears my brothers and I grow anxious. Cade is running around upstairs with so much adrenaline that he can't stop moving. We get ready to knock on our parents bedroom door to wake them up.
7:00 am: The second we see the clock hit 7:00 am we open the door and rush into my parents room. Matt wakes my dad up, I wake my mom up and Cade stands giddy with excitement in the back of the room.
As we head down the stairs the lights are all off, my mom leads the line of children and my dad brings up the rear. Matt and Cade both have huge smiles on their faces. The moment of truth comes, my mom turns to flip on the light and as soon as the room is illuminated I see exactly what I was hoping for. Sitting in a corner of the room is an unwrapped Dell computer. I scream in excitement and run over to see it. It is an amazing desktop computer, monitor, keyboard and mouse and I can't believe it is all mine.
I give each of my parents a hug and thank them for my first computer. I can't wait to turn it on, in fact I set it up right there in the living room. Everyone around me was still opening gifts and I couldn't get beyond my computer.
I don't remember any other gift I received that Christmas. I am sure I loved every single one of them but let's be honest, it would be hard to top a computer. This was a special Christmas for me because looking back I realize that it was the beginning of a long journey to who I am today. Today I love computers and are fascinated with them, had I not gotten that computer on that day I don't know what my interests would be today.
Travis,
ReplyDeleteChristmastime is my favorite part of the year. I wait 11 months and 22-24 days just for it to get here! My family always gathers up at our farm and we go to Christmas Eve service at the little white Methodist church in town and then come back and enjoy each others company until it's bed time. When I was younger, I could hardly sleep through the night. I would wake up at about 5 am to go check my stocking and then I would watch cartoons until everyone else woke up.
Those descriptions are so real! I love how y'all rush into your parents rooms at the dot at 7. Our family time was 8 and my brother and I would rush in to get my father out of bed who always reluctantly rose around 8 20. It was such a buzz kill, but yea I love Christmas too and have been counting down the days!
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