How Walgreens Saved Christmas

'Twas the night before Christmas and through the house there arouse, suddenly, a ruckus...

Christmas Eve started out semi-normal this year. And by semi-normal I mean my mom was running around putting finishing touches on everything, my dad was cutting wood so we wouldn't have to do it on Christmas Day, and friends were dropping in periodically (because that's how my parents friends are). 

Nothing of real interest happened. We called my brother who was in D.C. and chitchatted with him for a little while, Dad went to the farm with my nephew, they came home and he took E home, Mom and I just kinda hung out. 

So then around nine, Dad decided that we should make homemade candy. Okay, sounds great! So, we get the dough made up and prepared, and I say, "Do we have chocolate chips?" 

You don't have to be a genius to see where this is going...

Now, it's Christmas Eve and at this point it's ten, so obviously there aren't any stores open. But, we called around town anyways. Ingles, Publix (actually, come to think, I don't know that we did call Publix, but we'll say they were closed anyways), Walmart . . . all the big places were closed. 

So then someone suggested Walgreens. 

And lo! Walgreens was open! So Mom ran over to Walgreens, grabbed the chocolate chips, and the homemade Reese's process continued. And Dad was in a good mood again--which is what we wanted all along. Hah. 

So, the candy turned out good. Mom was also able to get a Coke for her ham that she'd forgotten, and then Christmas Eve proceeded like normal. Well, normal for us. Hah. 

Thanks Walgreens! And Merry Christmas!