.....That one was so good that I don't have a smartass comment. Consider it a Christmas present from the Waylon Heron.

Your description of a young boy's Christmas morn touched me deeply, as I would have described those few years when Christmas is so special in the same way myself. No other experience in my life has had exactly the same feeling as those 3 or 4 years when Christmas night passes so slowly. You wake every half hour and when the light begins to shade your room, you go downstairs to enjoy the anticipation of opening the presents that have miraculously appeared. If I could recapture one experience from my life, it would be that indescribable feeling.

This year I am coming close. Our boys are at that same wonderful age as I was then. Michael is completely wired. We have worked hard to make this a very special year because we know the "special" feelings that we all remember only last a few years. When Mike is fifty and I'm long gone, I want him to have the same warmth in his heart that I do now.

Merry Christmas Peter...and thanks.

Spaw