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Title artwork by Rachel H.


Monday, May 5, 2014

Erik W. 5 S

Awesome Christmas
I sprung out of bed screaming “it’s Christmas Eve! it’s Christmas Eve!!!”
When my brother screamed “SHUT UP!!!” in his whiney morning voice.
I jumped out of bed in joy when a thought shot right into my head.  How did I forget? Everybody’s sleeping. I rushed to the kitchen and gobbled down some Cheerios not caring that I seriously hated that cereal. I gobbled it down faster than I ever had. I turned on the TV waiting anxiously for everyone to wake up.
A couple of minutes passed when I realized my home made security camera was still stuck to the back sliding door and it was still taping.  I said to myself “wow, it’s cool how I made it.”  I took my phone, a Nerf sticky bullet, and wrapped tape around it and stuck it to the back door.  I heard my dad get up, and I did what I usually do when he gets up.  I ran up to him and hugged him and jumped on him.  And as usual he groans and says
“Don’t jump on me,” he groans. I  waited patiently till everyone woke up slowly and happily.                                                     
          When everyone woke up I gave my mom her usual morning hug and said I love you.  My mom made bacon and eggs and we all ate, except for me.  When we were done we all got ready quickly to go to church and then to our cousins house.  We all got into the car and in a slow pace buckled our seat belts and started our drive to church.  After church we arrived at my cousins house in Shelton as we got out of the car it was freezing, so we all rushed into the garage.  I ran inside when I heard my cousins playing in the living room.  I crept through the hallway, I jumped out and screamed. My cousins screamed when I scared them. 
One of my cousins moaned loudly “you stink! Why did you do that?” 
“Duuughh… that’s called a prank,” I said.  “Where is breakfast?” I questioned, as I ran upstairs. 
    I ran up the stairs and saw more and more of the family.  As I arrived in the dining room my family was eating onion soup.  The room was noisy with the sound of clanging from dishes and spoons being tapped against the bowls gently. 
    I said hi to everybody and Merry Christmas. Then I went back downstairs to my cousins.  I played outside briefly so my cousins could show me there hideout, then went back inside.  As time passed, my cousins and I played the Wii.  Soon we were called to the dining room for our big feast of 12 dishes as all of us kids watched for the first star so we would start to eat. The star is a Polish tradition where we look outside and watch for a star.  My cousin Adam was the first to see the star.  So now it was time for everyone to go to the table so we could all start to eat.
    Just as we all started to finish our dinner, we heard a loud noise at the front door.  My uncle went to see what it was.  He yelled to us, “look what St. Nicholas left us! Huge sacks of presents!”  All of the kids pushed and ran into the living room so we could get our presents.
       When they called my name for a present I was so excited and could hardly wait to see what I got.  I quickly took the present and went back to the couch to open it and I said, “this is exactly what I wanted! An Xbox 360.This is an awesome Christmas!”