Presents, Presents, and Presents! ۰۪۫ ۪۫☃۰۪۫ ۪۫

I can clearly remember the familiar scene of racing out of my bedroom every Christmas morning as a kid. I remember blankly stopping at the tree, myself in awe as I noticed the dozens of finely wrapped presents and the disappearance of cookies and milk. I even remember thanking Santa as I opened my many awaited presents. But of course, things are a little different now because now I am currently a junior in high school. Now, we open presents on Christmas Eve, we quit the Santa rituals, and usually get money instead of thought out gifts. I'm still pretty grateful for these things, but its a little depressing. I used to love opening all the small and personal gifts, for instance, my old tamagotchi. It was only $20 back in the day, but for some reason, it was way better than any other gift. Money is nice and very useful, but it's not that personal, even gift cards. ಠ_ಠ

However, this Christmas was pleasantly different. My main gift was an iPad Air, which my dad got free from work after buying a certain amount of supplies. It may have not cost him anything, but it was still a pretty amazing gift; as a matter of fact, I'm typing on it right now (got a keyboard case off Groupon)! My brothers' gifts were actually pretty good this year too. Nick got me six different playstation 2 games (we love the old game stations btw), four of which were part of the Ratchet and Clank series. We had previously played one of them a few years back, and Nick and I were crazy about the game! The gift was incredibly personal, and it was nice to know he gave effort this year besides the usual lotion and candy. Mike gave me Mario Party 9 ( we have Mario Party 8) and I thought the gift was pretty useful. I got some other assorted gifts: headphones, nail polish, but mostly candy. Overall, this Christmas was pretty successful, everyone loved their gifts and its great to finally have the boys home from college.  (◑‿◐)

- Colonel Courn ⚓