See No Evil, Smell No Evil, HEAR No Evil! -Enjoy, Ali :)

It's Christmas time again and the McKinnon family treks off in their red Caravan to the local tree farm. Since they decided last minute to go to get the tree after picking Abby up from a birthday party, no one is wearing their snow pants. Dad has packed them in the trunk. Three are suited up and Mom is on her fourth (who in THIS CASE happens to be Garrett) when it all goes down (or COMES UP -shall we say!). Garrett is standing in the van facing Mom out the door when he turns a seasonal colour and tosses his Christmas cookies. Thankfully (as Dad says) Mom saw the signs and pulls him forward arching her own body back while propping sickly Garrett half out of the van. AH YES... it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. There USED to be another older family beside them, loading their tree up top of their vehicle... THAT family has dispersed magically... Can't BLAME them!

Mummers calls out to Daddoo that she's gonna require some snow...

Garrettski now feeling better spends the next hour trekking through the farm launching onto the moving sled that his older brother and sister are carrying. Mom and Dad figure the worst is over. They are wrong...

En route home with grinch boy FOOLISHLY seated WELL in the back of the van it happens. With out warning he takes a turn for the worse and repeats the cookie toss. Mom yells out to Dad... asking whether they can pull over and what to do?! Dad remarks that as they are waiting at a red light, there is NOTHING that can be done! Then Mom sees it. Caleb plugging his nose, Abby plugging her ears and Jackabee sitting beside Garrett in the back seat just watching and continuing to chew his gum. Mom wonders where Garrett's gum went... and laughs, while reassurring Garrett that it was okay and that they'd just clean it all up when they got home. Mom wants to be beamed off the earth. Mom doesn't WANT to reach home anymore. Mom wishes she were riding on the roof with the tree. Mom wonders WHAT in HEAVEN'S name makes all this SO FUNNY! Delirium folks, it MUST BE DELIRIUM, because Christmas cookies are NOT best served tossed!

Mom and Dad DO HOWEVER discover one thing positive in the whole experience, snow pants are absorbent. OY VEY! :)