A Christmas I’ll Never Forget |
| Published: December 2, 2007, 10:44 pm |
| Tags: life personal, christmas, padlock, playing cat and mouse, poisonous snake, santa, switches and ashes |
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I dedicate this post to Santa’s Community Blog because I haven’t visited him in a long while and he certainly deserves something special! Merry Christmas to Santa and all my blogging buddies! Like many little boys, I was not well behaved like my parents had hoped. My dad was hard core military and often made rules that I just didn’t agree with. Usually, I misbehaved in a rebellion against him. When I was 4 years old, I was living in Texas on an army post in Fort Hood. One day while my mother was busy and my dad was at work, I walked down to the creek because there was an older kid I saw near it. While there, we were looking at the water moccasins (a poisonous snake often found near or in fresh water). He told me, “It’s right there…it’s a big one.” I still couldn’t see it but kept looking. I leaned over a bit further…lost my footing and fell in! I couldn’t swim and was scared fighting to stay afloat. The older boy [ Full article ] |
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