We See You When You're Sleeping

Santa brought him everything on his (mercifully short) Christmas list.
A mandolin!
A dollhouse!
(Stop. It was a manly dollhouse.)
A tool box! 
A magic wand!
An astronaut suit!
And he played! And ate buttermilk biscuits and savory bread pudding (not to mention half a milk chocolate P for Patrick from his Christmas stocking)!
And he played some more!
And as Larry strummed a slew of Christmas carols on his own mandolin, it dawned on me that I hadn't seen that lively little Patrick in awhile ...