Christmas Wishes and a (rather long) Christmas Story Snippet

Hello all,
visiting with my family for the Holidays and enjoying every minute of it. I started writing this story as a Holiday short but it then got out of hand. I had hoped to finish and edit it by now but unfortunately my sister's kitten bit through my power cord for my computer as soon as I got to her house and things just went down hill from there as far as the story was concerned. 

I apologize for the roughness of this snippet and expect to have the full story out sometime next year....