Santa Claus 2

My story starts with me figuring out the whole Santa joy – but my parents delighting in deception anyway! To their credit, they had three below me who needed to be kept in Santa mode, and they needed me to keep my trap shut. (Bribery apparently wasn’t an option then.)

I was pretty prepared to blow it when we went to look at Christmas lights one Christmas Eve. As we were pulling out of the driveway, my mom had to quickly run to the restroom. We all waited in the car for her and when she returned, we proceeded to look at lights.

Of course, upon returning home, Santa had arrived! How in the world did that happen? Santa never came until the morning – ever!? This was not the norm! How did he know we would be gone? Pretty clever on the mom/pop scale.

I kept my mouth shut – I think. However, it’s possible my brother has a story to go with this one and I may be “mis-remembering” my stoic silence. Either way, this will be a good topic for your Christmas dinner conversation!