Santa Claus

We went to Grandma/pa Christensen’s house for FHE on the 22nd, ate dinner, and then to our surprise Santa Claus knocked on the front door. The kids were smiling great big, but a little shy. Haylee couldn’t stop laughing at one point. They didn’t know what to think. He sat them each on his lap and talked with them for a minute and then gave them a present – they each got a Christmas book and a treat. Afterward, Haylee said that he wasn’t the real Santa because he didn’t have gloves on and his hands were “rotten”. Who knows what was going on in her head. Jacquelyn asked over and over, “Do you think he really is the real Santa?” She wanted confirmation from us and whatever we said she would believe. Cody and Andee didn’t like him much. Cody was fine just watching him and talking on someone's cell phone. So much fun!

The next day the kids got letters from Santa in the mail. They were ecstatic. On the back of their envelope it said, “It was good to see you last night”. That was the icing on the cake that made them all believe they saw the real Santa at grandma/pa’s house. Jacquelyn carried her letter around for the entire week. They got a letter from Rudolph as well. She read her letter to everyone she saw. She picked it apart, read and re-read, found a spelling error, and laughed while she read certain parts. We read Devin and Haylee’s out loud and Devin said “cool” and went on playing with his trucks. Haylee was a little more excited than Devin and she was excited to tell a few people that she got a letter and she told daddy what she remembered hers to say.