How bout this Santa? We had the family Christmas Eve gathering at our house this year. All in all, things went well. No fights with the in-laws, actually I don’t recall hearing any arguing at all – that makes two grief free holidays in a row. Let’s hope this is the beginning of a long trend. God knows the previous trend was really starting to wear on me.

I really enjoyed the Santa gig this year though. Stephanie grabbed me to see if I had any tape around. “Sure thing, I’ve got some electrical tape in my office, will that work?”

We walked back to my office and there Jackie was decked out in the Santa garb. They were having trouble with the eyebrows and needed some tape to keep them in place. I kept the chuckles to a minimum after Jackie asked if I wanted to be Santa this year. Thanks, but no thanks.

From years of different family members playing Santa on Christmas, most of the 13 kids know it’s not the “real” santa that shows up to hand out presents at these gatherings. Jackie did a great job with the ho ho’ing but forgot to take off her watch so she was busted.

I’ll get the video up one of these days. Until then, here are some pics:

Hope you had a Merry Christmas,

Jason Massengale