MEMBER BLOG TAG: daughter
| Monday, December 19, 2011 10:08AM | | | | Why Santa Returns on Christmas Day | Tags: Santa, Christmas, reindeer, New Year's Day, farm family, mail order, North Pole, daughter
| | | | For Deirdre Siobhan
What I wanted most for Christmas in my pre-school imagination was a huggable elephant. On Christmas morning when Mother woke us I rushed to get to the Christmas tree before my brother and sister. I didn’t but I didn’t cry either. I was too busy looking at all the wonders under the tree. The usual cap pistol and holster. A coloring book and crayons, and tiny hard candy beads inside a small thick-glass airplane. My boots were filled with nuts, an apple, and each wore an orange bigger than the top of my boots. I ate the candy beads first. Both my brother and sister had bigger boots but Dad shared the nuts and fruit he has in his so I didn’t cry... | | | | | |
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