Merry Christmas...I Found My "Ho!"
I knew it was still out there somewhere and goodness knows, you can't schlep around Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with just two "Ho's." Since I was a little kid.....back in the Barney Rubble days.....it was "Ho, Ho, Ho" and I knew I had to find the one I lost. Found it.....at Mom's house in the Berkshires hills of Western Massachusetts.
I mentioned yesterday that I lost a "Ho" during my last trip to the mall on the day before Christmas. There's nothing like circling a mall parking lot the day before Christmas, looking for a parking space, spotting one, and then having a soccer Mom, in an SUV the size of a battleship, blast you with the horn, give you the finger and cut you off into the parking space, leaving you to circle some more. "Merry Ho, Ho, Ho" to you too soccer Mom, only this time, I'm going to withhold a couple of those "Ho's"....the same way you withheld several fingers on your right hand as you waved to me.
But that was yesterday. Today I've got all my "Ho's" restored and then some, by a simple drive to Mom's house, a Christmas Eve party at my Brothers house and a chance to share Christmas memories, a bunch of giggles, copious adult beverages, delicious foods and lots of love with about 15 members of the LaPierre family. God love my Mom, who at the age of 93, was wondering why everyone was starting to leave at about 11:30 p.m. She was ready to party-on. We started the revelry six hours earlier!!!!!
Besides Mom, my two brothers, two sister-in-laws, nieces and nephews and others.... a giant Merry Christmas.....a bunch of "Ho, Ho, Ho's" and God Speed to two United States Marines who were there, my nephew and the husband of my niece, both of whom will be deployed to Afghanistan in the coming year. As they keep us safe......may God keep them safe.
With all my "Ho's" in-tact, spending today with my wife, two sons, two daughter- in-laws and four grandchildren. Merry Christmas!!
