The Awaking

Last week my wife and I went to bed early (like 9:15 pm) because I had an extremely long work day the next day. Our Child Xena was also sleeping in our bed with us, with my wife on the outside of the bed . We have a extremely small one bedroom house with a living room kitchen and bathroom on the first floor and a basement level. The sleep on this particular night seemed extremely restful until about midnight we were awakened to a crash coming from our living room. I immediately jumped out of bed in a dream like state, hoisting myself into the air within seconds of the disturbing crash over my wife and child. I run to the living room (in my underwear) and begin to scream softly at first and gradually into a guttural growl, somewhat like a cave man being threatened by a saber tooth tiger. I was for sure someone had broken into our house. This is the fear i've always had and was not sure what I would do in the potential situation. Apparently my plan was to revert to my reptile brained ancestry and jump up and down and scream a war cry that would put fear into the heart of any adversary adversary. But alas the noise happened to be our small christmas tree being knocked over, off of the end table and some how sliding the table away from the wall several feet. Our dog seemed to be quite frightened by this extravaganza and hid in our room while i screamed like a possessed bag of cats. This event left me very emotional and un-eased with a bruised foot and slightly strained ankle. not sure why i'm relaying it on here.