Christmas Fatality #2

I should have seen it coming.

I was there as we unveiled the tree and all the sparkling ornaments.

I saw the Golum-like gleam in their eyes as they beheld all the glitter. "My Preciousssss"

I should have left the tree bare two feet down.

Life is filled with missed opportunities and "what-ifs."

What if I hadn't let them help decorate? Would they have been as obsessed with the tree?

What if I had given them their own little, non-breakable tree to decorate?

Questions that will never be answered...

 

Goodbye Gabriel, Reveille, and Snowflake man. You were caught in the line of preschool fire and went down for the cause of Christmas. You will be missed next year. Thank you for your service.