Chapters Christmas

My dad, enjoying his cup of tea :)

David + Andrea = Christmas

My beautiful sister...

This is my mother, whom I love...

About five years ago, when both Andrea and I were sufficiently grown up, my parents decided to stop with the headache of shopping (both of them hate it!) and do something a little more unconventional for Christmas. We all love books, and we all love music, so the best place to get gifts for us is either a book or music store anyway. So, Chapters Christmas was born. We all go to Chapters, peruse books and music until we find something that we want, and then, we all go for coffee at Starbucks. Both my mother and sister are what you could call coffee addicts, and I don't mind a Tazo Chai Latte myself. My father hates specialty coffee so he gets tea and a brownie, and all of us are happy, unstressed, and pleased with our Christmas gift. And this year, since David decided not to go to Ontario, he got to take part in our tradition for the first time. We all decided it was a great success. Our main gift, of course, will be our donation, as David already wrote about, but this way we have something to read, and music to listen to, which is basically all we do on Dec. 25, anyway. It is very quiet in our household until dinnertime, because we are all reading and drinking coffee (or tea) voraciously. Anyway, here are some memories of Chapters Christmas, 2006.