What It's All About by Joe DeRozier

ave and I would tear down our checkerpatterned hall, wearing only our pajamas that we had outgrown the previousyear.

It was 6:00am... 

Of course, Dave and I had already been awake for over anhour. We were early risers, anyway, but today...

 ...today, was Christmasmorning.

 Starting at five am, Dave and I crossed that checker patterned hall every10 minutes into mom and dad's room. 

Mom possessed that sonar "momhearing" that always jolted her awake when we entered their room, whiledad pretended ...