Rob recounts 50 years prior when he gave his father a Christmas gift of milking the cows before his father awakened. It came across a little trite and a bit repetitive about Rob’s realization that his father loved him because his father didn’t want to awaken him for this chore each morning. 

It was a sweet gift of a child to give his father, but I thought the real gift would be to tell his father he didn’t have to wake up obscenely early, get dressed, and trek out to the barn in the cold. All of that the father still had to do before realizing the son already milked the cows.