They had such high hopes. Of meeting the real Santa. Those of you at our Ward Christmas Party last year will remember that this year's Santa was a ginormous improvement. His hands were clean, he didn't have a dark mustauch peeking over the folded white elastic band that had pillow stuffing glue-sticked onto it. But where we made up for in appearances, we lost in affability. Last year, Santa gave an overfriendly thumbs-up with the kids for each picture that was taken. This year, maybe I missed it, but I heard no "Ho, ho, ho" ever escaping his lips (granted, the cardboard beard was surely an obstacle). I'm not even sure if he asked the kids what they wanted for Christmas. Most of them didn't get that far.
It's not Lizzie I'm worried about (Eli saw the Santa and went MIA - looking for candy, most likely). It's the others. They don't remember ever having seen a Santa that looks anything like the guy from "'Twas the Night Before Christmas." For Lizzie, we are holding on tightly to the memory of a Santa in Roanoke with a Real Beard, who played guitar and had a singalong with the kids and who let them sit with him on his Real Sleigh. But the others have no other memories to draw upon in this time of need.
In the words of Liz Waterman: "I'm just waiting for the year when they finally decide to save up and spring for a real Santa."
3 comments:
You know, if we can't get a real Santa next year..maybe we could spring for the Brighton High Spice Boys?
Well, you may or may not be interested to know that we are going on TWO years without a Santa in our ward Christmas party. AND, our musical numbers consisted of 3 kids giving a very elementary piano recital (one handed "up on the rooftop") and one was a duet (one handed on their part) with the piano teacher - the 3rd was so memorable I totally forgot what it was. And then someone read a VERY LONG story that lasted FOREVER!!! ...and the primary sung - that was the highlight in my opinion. But hey, the food was good.....
Maybe we should go check out the Santa at the mall. I doubt that he would have a cardboard beard.
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