Simply Having a Horrible Christmas Time: Preview

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 Prologue


Christmas was going to be fun. I mean, how couldn't it be? I had planned fifteen minutes of “fun” throughout every day of our trip by my daughter Maddie’s request! No, that’s not weird, that’s being prepared. And I had gotten all of Jack’s and Maddie’s presents months before december! So how did we end up on Christmas eve, upside down, in a car, in a ditch, surrounded by snow, screaming at each other? I don't know, but this is the story of the Christmas I found out what it meant to have fun, improvise, and what really matters at Christmas.

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