“Daddy look!” says LML as she spots the stockings placed by their grandparents by the fireplace.
“Look Daddy!”
“They look interesting, what do you think they are?”
“Ho, ho, Ho!”
“You think Santa has left them?”
“Yes” say both the girls, Lolly nodding her head vigorously.
“Do you want to have a look?”
“Yeeees!”
They delve in the stockings, Pulling out torches, bags of chocolate coins, masks… It’s not long before a range of small objects have been explored, played with and explored again.
After a few minutes LML comes up to Crap Dad and kisses him on the cheek and says, “Thank you Daddy”.
Crap Dad says, “You need to thank Nan and Granddad when they get up. Though that’ll be a few hours yet, as it’s still the middle of the night.”
Mostly Functional 
“Ho ho ho,” in a squeaky child voice was the soundtrack to our Christmas too. Glad to hear good stories from you!
This is wonderful. What time was it?
Somewhere between 5.30 and 6am Isobel. I (GM) was happily and completely asleep at the time!
LML’s “ho ho ho”‘s are boomed as deeply and loudly as possible Thorn, which is very funny and very catching – she had a whole room of relatives doing it at one point!
Ah, that’s not so bad. I thought it might have been about two in the morning!
Happy New Year to you and all the family.