I absolutely adore my family, and I will drop just about anything to attend a family get together, but I especially look forward to the annual family Christmas dinner at my mom and dad's house, which happened on December 11th this year.
The Wheaton Family Christmas (2005 edition) was exactly like any other of the always-awesome Wheaton Family Christmas gatherings, with one exception that was so painful, I wrote an essay about it for Salon.com called The Real War on Christmas, which is excerpted on the flip . . .