Part 3...Our House
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
"Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house...
We had a fun Christmas Eve, just Us3. I was very excited, so excited that my usual insatiable appetite was curbed and early in the evening I had a tummy ache from all the anticipation. But there was lots to distract me ...
We got our stockings all ready for Santa
(stockings, the "before" picture)
Played some games and pretended to be listening for reindeer.
We had a nice dinner, checked NORAD online to monitor Santa's progress around the world and got suited up for our Christmas Eve walk through the neighborhood.
On our walk, we looked at the lights on the houses, strolled by the big kids playing hockey on the rink at the park, walked down a small side-street...
...And what to my wondering eyes did appear...?
SANTA!
Real Santa was walking around our neighborhood with sleigh-bells ringing, a big red sack and candy canes that he was giving out door to door! It was just too much. We had just confirmed that Santa was in South Africa but here he was, in front of me. I asked why he was here so early and he said this is a special neighborhood and he wanted to spend a bit of time here. Amazing. He said he had parked the sleigh 'round the corner, but you know Christmas is full of magic and when we went 'round that corner...the sleigh wasn't there!
Speaking of magic, I have been thinking hard about Santa and so I asked mom the other day whether Santa will be dead one day like real people. She paused a moment, then answered that no, Santa is magic, he is an elf and so even though he is old he will not die like a real person.
I just thought I would check.
When we got home, we set out snacks and drinks for Santa and the reindeer on the special plate and cup I got from my gran and grandad.
Then I got to open one present before going to bed.
On Christmas morning , we came down and saw...
Stockings and the tree with lots of presents!
(the "after" picture)
We had Christmas morning champers and OJ in memory
of my great-grandpa.
And we had some Christmas morning breakfast to soak up the champagne!
Then we got to the important business of opening presents!!
There were even presents from Pappy and Jammie that had come in mysteriously wrapped packages through the mail...
It was a lot of fun, and then...
it was over.
(but not for long...Part 4 of 4 was soon to come.)
