Dec 22 2008
A Spanking is what you all deserve for Christmas
“A Spanking is what you all deserve for Christmas”
If you think this is a terrible thing to say to your children on Christmas Eve, you won’t get any argument from me.
If you have trouble believing that a Father would say this to his children, then I will verify it to be the truth. Nothing spoils a holiday faster than a drunk. Any holiday. Any drunk. 
I was only twelve, but I remember how it affected my sisters and me. They were terrified; I thought I would fight him off or call the cops. Mom kept him under control, but what an asshole.
The “holiday season” is the most stressful time of the year–hands down. When you live in a dysfunctional family, you hope and pray that it might be different this year; that Dad will come home early and come home sober. I have never forgotten how he managed to ruin just about every special event in our lives. I can’t say that I have forgiven him but I no longer hold it against him. He doesn’t remember much of anything anymore. Living in a nursing home, he is now isolated from the family; who mostly resent him and have no sympathy as he slowly deteriorates further into dementia. At least I now recognize that alcoholism is a disease. Too late for him; too late for us.
Some things you can never get back. I know–I should get over it and move on. Some things you never forget and just never seem to “get over.”
That’s the truth…It’s hard to forget about holidays and birthdays that were ruined by Alcohol