Another Christmas Eve

Our oldest son, Steve,wanted an electric train for Christmas one year. My husband Ray had a great idea to buy boards and hinges and put it out of the way at night. He painted the board and on Christmas Eve with his parents help we brought it up. I'm not sure how he did it as he would be sleeping but anyway we did and got it up with a pulley to bring it up which it immediately crashed on the floor. His father and I sighed in the front room and then helped him take the board to the basement and put it on the ping pong table. Steve liked it down there and later the board became boxes for our camping trip. I had a doll house to put together also but his mother was good at that. The kids loved Christmas and did not hear any of the swear words I think.