IF I WERE QUEEN

………and as it turns out, I  AM the Queen of EVERYTHING.  The problem is that not everyone acknowledges that fact. (Another problem I will have to address in the New Year)  Nevertheless if I were properly recognized as Her Royal Highness, a few things would be different around here at Christmas time:

 

1. 1.  “I have to finish my Christmas shopping.”  would be considered a legitimate excuse for a paid day off from work.
2. 2.  Christmas cookies would have no calories.
3. 3.  No cancer.  No cancer ever but cancer at Christmas is just WRONG.
4. 4.  World peace. 
5. A lack of simple common courtesy, such as “please”, “thank you” and “excuse me”, would be punishable by death….or at the very least dismemberment.   
6. Christmas traffic would part like the Red Sea to allow the Queen to pass. 
7. Santa would lend the use of all his elves so that the Queen’s shopping, cleaning, baking, packing, wrapping, shipping (Yes, thank you very much, I do know that it is now too late for much of this. Dear Sister, expect a New Years package.) would be done in time to enjoy HUGE amounts of Christmas cheer. 
8. Fireplaces in every home.  Fires make things so much more cozy.  (And so much easier for Santa.  )
9. Peppermint Mochas all around.
10. Last but certainly not least, The Queen DEMANDS that you all:

 

HAVE A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!