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Show Christmas Carols the Sometimes best and your eyes will be Christmas gifts are the ones you give yourself. My too kind and loving wife surely must think this since my duct-tape- d shut. So take a good look mannequin... you may never see it again. I suppose the kind of nightie she was hoping for was made of flannel and buttons up past her ears and has feet on them, a cap and a few safety latches and an alarm... a gifts (birthday, amReeary and subtle neon sign Christmas) that says have been an assort- ment of power tools, cooking utensils, other than the equipment. They have all lacked what she called the wearer. Okay, so let me get back to my story story. We (my too kind and loving wife, her and sisters assorted kids the Christmas program at the pajamas... but I learned a and myself) all went up to visit Grandma Max (Maxine Allred) at the swing bed facility up at the valuable lesson; the less Elementary School material used in the and enjoyed myself construction of a nightie, the more money it costs. I don't understand this exactly but the rule ofthumb is that if you can wrap the nightie in a box the size of... say... gaming cards, then it is going to cost you a bundle and chances are it will never leave the secret underwear drawer and if it does youll never see it anyway because the lights will be off although it wasn't clear to me if Chris Adair was doing aerobics or leading the music. Whichever it was, were going up to few carols to Christmas a sing you couldnt put much more enthusiasm in it than what she did. Go girl go! And I know for her... Whoooeee, there was no way I was going to miss this Christmas miracle. I hate to was the same one I played 30 years ago for Mr. Erickson. the Odettes are not known for their singing abilities. In fact a fact that the band arrangement of Jingle Bells bring up family secrets, but I lit buiklvirf Varjcie L.fe Insurance Wc have loans to Midi lit Mw it hi lit R Nuk Ik f.n. J PROFESSIONAL just banged on their bed pans to the Mcnticello High School trying to drown cut the r.oise. Band Choir concert the other The most polite just shut off night and listened to Clint their hearing aids. I tried to lead and sing as Adams sing the solo part for For those of you who went Monotone Angel; the Odettes loud as possible to compensate concede and give credit where credit is due, my too kind and and some were even howling. The Boyles (Scott and loving wifes family can at Cassie) happened by and pulled in because they thought some natural disaster had occurred or the siren was broken. When they saw who it was and what we were doing, they instantly knew what the problem was. 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