Wishful Thinking

I'm back! Well, sorta - trying to play catch up and see what everyone's been up to. I miss you guys!!! The holidays over here were quiet and peaceful, minus the noise from my rambunctious monsters... and I don't mean just the kids. ;)

It's the night before Christmas Eve, and we're making sugar cookie cut-outs with our homemade cookie dough. As we're decorating the 46th cookie, "Silent Night" rings through the house speakers, and Hubz remembers something with a start.

"Daredevil! Do you know what song this is? It's Silent Night, sung for the first time by a Choir Director named Franz Xavier Gruber."

The rest of us are stilled by his sudden history lesson.

"You wanna know how I know that," he continued. "I played him and sang it in a Christmas play, TWICE, when I was a boy in school."

Daredevil gasps. "You mean, you got an encore?!"

"Yep," Hubz replied with a wink. "People were calling my name, throwing money at me..."

[Pause.]

"That's how I bought this house," he declared.

The rest of us erupted into a roar of laughter that, I think, the neighbors might've heard. :)