It was the night before Christmas

What's with the BS about not a creature stirring, not even a mouse, on the night before Christmas, whoever wrote that didn't live in a house with kids. My kids will probably be in and out of bed half a dozen times tonight to check on the Christmas tree and see if Santa has been yet or not. Then at probably around 5am they will be running around and shaking boxes and making noise. Finally somewhere around 6am they will come in and wake my wife and I up and ask if we can get up now so they can start opening their presents.
At some stage during the morning my son will probably tell me that he heard or maybe even saw Santa sneaking through our house and how he hid back in his bed so he wouldn't be seen. I tell you what, Santa isn't very good at being quiet or not being seen as my son sees or hears him nearly every year. 
If you want a taste of how an Australian Christmas plays out, you just need to remember that it's Summer and only a few days after the longest day of the year in the Southern Hemisphere (no I'm not a flat-earther). The sun will set on Christmas eve sometime around 8:20pm and it will continue to be light until around 9pm, maybe later. The sun will be up again around 5:45am with it getting light around half an hour prior to that. We'll probably have an early breakfast and then my wife and I will start getting things ready to head over to my Dad's for lunch. Lunch will be around 1pm and drag on until around 3pm when we'll decide that we should have a game outside, in the hottest part of the day, which will be somewhere around 35°C. We'll all get too hot and tired and spend the rest of the afternoon trying not to fall asleep, some of us will not be able to stay awake.
Sometime around 6pm my kids will start pestering about what we're having for dinner, meanwhile, my wife and I probably won't be hungry at all. We'll probably start having leftovers and that will continue for the next few days.
I think a white Christmas might be better in some ways, one year we'll do it, or maybe we could do Christmas on a cruise ship, that would be awesome as there would be no prep and no cleaning up. Maybe when the kids are a little older and understand a little bit more why Santa probably won't find them on a boat in the middle of the ocean we can look at doing that.

Bomber
dreaming of a white Christmas