This was the best Christmas ever

It all started with a little run at the Illinois lottery , I had hit a little lottery on Thanksgiving morning that when it paid off we would have a down payment for a house and a used boat since we always have to bank fish . They said it would take 6-8 weeks before we would get the check so that put us around the beginning of January .

We had money put up for our kids for Christmas and the grand babies however my wives Daughter lives with a guy that has two kids ages 8 and 10 . As Christmas was approaching we found out that her Daughter and Boyfriend did not have the money to buy Christmas presents for his two kids and that they would get them something after the first of the year due to his paycheck cycle however that was not sitting well with me because they are 8 and 10 and what would Christmas be with getting nothing from your Dad .

So I lost a lot of sleep over this for about 3 weeks trying to figure out how to make this happen . So I just could not come up with the extra money for nothing . I had to work Christmas eve till Noon and on my way home I stopped at the gas station right by my house the same one I won the lottery at and bought a $20 scratch off ticket and a soda , I stood there and scratched the ticket and about half way down the ticket I got a WIN ALL symbol , each spot was $40 and there 25 spots which totaled $1000 dollars , I jumped and ran to the truck , I called the local lottery office in Fairview to see if they were open because it was Christmas eve and they were , I went home to get the wife who was baking pies , told her we had to go so she had her Mom take the pies out of the oven .

We went to the lottery office , got our check , went to the bank and cashed it and headed to get presents for these two kids . This was the best Christmas ever because these two kids were so Happy with the presents they received from their Dad . What an awesome Christmas and Thank you God for being with me on the way home .