Christmas With the Skinners

It's like a movie.
Someone always arrives on Christmas Eve. This year it was Valerie.
Someone is always cooking; there are always children underfoot.

Someone is always setting a table with candles.
Someone is stealing cookies, some one is making noise with radio or piano....

This year we
had two trees for all the presents
sang on Christmas eve,
went bowling,
played basketball,
went to Chinatown,
went shopping for size 13 shoes,
ate Mexican food,

got family pictures taken
Mark prepared Chinese food so spicy our mouths went numb..