Phil,
I am sorry that everything has to be a big deal for Gretchen.  If you get
arrested for adult child abuse I will have to visit you and Sandy in the
slammer.  I will have to bring lots of hot coffee.
Praying for you guys.
Virgie and Hoshi
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2005 12:24 PM
Subject: The Beginning of Christmas


> We started our Christmas out as it often has come down and that is, with
> Gretchen, when asked to put up a small two foot tall Christmas tree on our
> entertainment center.  When she was asked to help, since our youngest son
> had helped by doing some grocery and Christmas shopping, she got home last
> night at almost 11:30 and a few minutes later, she came upstairs.  She did
> something in the kitchen for awhile, so when I got up this morning, I
> hunted
> for the Christmas tree and Christmas decorations.
> There were absolutely none to be found.  Later, when a good old Scovell
> holiday fight broke out, Gretchen informed us we forced her, at age nine,
> to
> begin putting up our Christmas tree.  Boy, I wish I had a dime for every
> freaking Christmas tree I had, when our children were little, that I had
> to
> cut the base evenly, get put into the base stand, and work with to get it
> straight.  Then I well remember all those times, crawling around under the
> tree trying to pour water into the base to keep the thing alive.
> Admittedly, I was a little younger and a little slimmer then than I am now
> but today is the first time I realized how abusive Sandy and I were to our
> children around Christmas.  Gretchen said that every Christmas she has
> been
> forced to put up the tree.  I hope, at our age, we don't get arrested for
> child abuse.  Let this be a lesson to you.  Don't have Christmas with your
> older adult, I stress the word adult, children who still have a bad
> attitude.  They will screw it up every time.  This is far from our first,
> by
> the way, so I know where of I speak.
>
> Phil.
>
>
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