My Christmas Wish List

December 16/15

Today's suggested song is "When I Was Your Man" by Bruno Mars

So on Saturday my son asked me what I wanted for Christmas when he was over with his sister decorating the new Christmas tree.

This is the first year he's actually asked me and it caught me off guard so for a moment I just looked at the tree with numerous thoughts going through my mind. As I turned to respond he exchanged a look with his sister and before I could get a word out he said to me "Something I can actually give you"

I was confused by this as I've never been one to want something that is out of reach and usually struggle to think of anything to request other than the standby safe gift cards from either Golf Town or Chapters. My daughter walked over and smiled at me as she said "We'd love to get you what we think you really want but some things are beyond our control dad"

It was at that moment I realized they were thinking of C and didn't know how to react other than just hug them and say it's OK, I'm going to be OK, and smile.  What else could I do at that moment?

Sometimes how perceptive my kids are can really come back to bite me in the ass!!

As we finished up the tree I did manage to list some things that would be cool to find under the tree from Santa come the 24th and none were golf or book related :)

My list is more centered around my fitness goal and included a Fitbit, some more work out shorts and shirts from Under Armour, and maybe a watch.  The big item there was the Fitbit but they said I had to tell the something that wasn't cheap as I deserve a nice gift.

My son was a bit put off by the work out clothes as he looked over at the laundry basket near the stairs and asked what was wrong with the shirts on the top and I said there was no way I was wearing those to the gym and embarrass the organization printed on the front given my current body shape. They were part of a 3 pack given to me by C back in the spring and are from her organization so doing anything in them in the gym will wait till I'm farther along. Ironically, I think she had been planning on getting me some new ones for my stocking this year, really nice ones designed for working out.

So now my list has been submitted and it's only up to Santa to determine if I've been naughty or nice...

So what's on your list and have you been naughty or nice?  Funny how one person's naughty could be another person's nice :)

Side note.....That which my children think I want is really what I do want but I'm smart enough to now we don't always get what we want but sometimes if we're lucky we just might get what we deserve, to quote Mick and the boys :)