The “House Critters” Christmas Morning

    It was early when the humans got up, which disturbed the house critters. They all started to just roll over and go back to sleep, because they had been up late last night and maybe eaten a bit too much. Then it hit them, this was Christmas day!

    Henrietta Bobbie Bunny, Ducky Duck, Rainy Reindeer, Blue Booby, and Big Bunny watched the two humans go into the antique room where the big green tree with all the decorations was now glowing because all its’ lights were on. Barb brought a box from the back room and they both started stuffing items into big stockings that were decorated and had names on them. There already were many wrapped boxes and bags that had tags with names on them under the tree. The critters had all looked at them and found some with their names on them, which made them very happy. They wondered about the stockings, as they had not seen any with their names on them. Then Bob came into the room with a very big stocking with all the critters first name on it in age order. Henrietta was first on the list as she was the oldest house critter. Barb had a special bag she got from a high shelf in the closet of the computer room, where the critters could not get into it. She dumped all this stuff into the critters’ stocking. Ducky was so excited and making so much noise that they did not hear the DeBolts come in.

   Every Christmas morning one of Jackie’s presents was Bob making breakfast for them. There were nine humans so Bob normally scrambled three dozen eggs along with cooking two dozen sausages and toasting two dozen English muffins. All the muffins took a while to get toasted so they had to be started as soon as the DeBolts came into the house and a cup of coffee was put in front of them. The critters really liked breakfast, but on this morning they were really more interested in gifts.

   Breakfast was over and all the humans gathered in the living room for stockings to be handed out by the elf. The DeBolts actual present exchange had happened on X-Mas eve. Yes, actually a small person with an elf hat and elfish grin, but sadly this one did not come from the North Pole it was Bob’s sister Deb. The first item of business with the stockings was which order would the elf decided on, this year she went with alphabetical by first name, so Amy got her stuff first.

This excited the critters as they figured Avatar, Amy’s boyfriend, would be next then Big Bunny should get the huge stocking which had stuff in it for all of them. Well they were correct and soon all of them were unwrapping play things and food specifically picked out for each critter or at least for a couple of them, as the bunnies liked the same stuff!