[Sca-cooks] OT: A Stolen Christmas

[JAMES REVELLS]

   Sorry for the rant folks, but I am need to express a few things. I would 
have been writing a note on the Cajun Christmas dinner I will be fixing for 
my brother & friends on Saturday, but I got a call yesterday as I was on my 
way to go shopping.
    It's about time for my annual essay for Christmas, most of the time I am
fairly happy, looking forward to the day & the end of Mall Extended Shopping
Hours, but this year I am contemplating bloody mayhem.
    My daughter, Dawn, moved back to South West Georgia this fall, to be
near her grandmother & allow Daryan, my three year old granddaughter, to get
to know her great grandmother better.  The trailer that we lived in is on
some farm land that came to me from my grandfather, it was the place that
Dawn felt happiest as a child.  It's been a rough year for them, Dawn &
Jeff, her husband, split up.  They moved away from his side of the family,
my ex-wife & I (they all live in NH & I in MA).  Dawn is working too much,
to make ends meet.
    However the girls were looking forward to Christmas.  It is the first
one Daryan has anticipated.  She has been making plans & knew exactly what
she wanted from Santa.  A week or so ago Daryan, whispered to my mother
"Me-maw we have a secret!"
    "What is it?" my mother asked.
    "We got you a toaster-Don't Tell!" she replied.
    Well, Daryan won't be giving Mom her toaster.  On Tuesday night some low
life scum broke into my daughter's trailer & stole Christmas.  Dawn was at
work & Daryan was at my Mom's house, so no one was physically harmed, but
the thief stole the TV, VCR, DVD & all the gifts under the tree-including
the toaster that Daryan was going to give her great grandmother.  The gifts
& electronics can be replaced, but the thief also stole Dawn's comfort in
her home & the joy that Daryan had in helping pick out her great
grandmother's gift.
    There will be gifts for her the girls under Me-maw's tree, for the first
time in my life being such a procrastinator paid off.  I mailed the 57 
pounds of
Christmas gifts to Georgia on Monday, so they weren't there to be stolen.
Daryan will get the Shu Shu baby & talking vacuum  from Santa that she has
been saying she wanted for two months, along with some other gifts from
Grampa & Uncle Bones, but I can't give them back the important things that
were stolen.
    Pax,
Olaf
who will get his Christmas spirit back, but not quite yet.