I took the family for a winter hike along the beach. It is
great this time of year, you pretty much have the beach to yourself. While we were
strolling, my daughter Alice asked the darnest question – “Does Santa ever get
bored of receiving cookies and milk at every house?” I didn’t have an answer,
so, I asked her what she thought. Alice
replied “If I was Santa and someone left me something other than cookies and
milk, I would leave them a stocking full of chocolate covered sunflower seeds.”
I liked where she was heading with this. The family started brainstorming ideas
for what to leave Santa. While we were chatting away and not paying attention
to where we were walking, we all ended up in a big heap on the sand. Looking
around, we discovered we had tripped over a pipe washed up on shore. Everyone
shouted at once, lets give Santa a pipe to smoke!
It took everyone working together to lug it back to the
burrow. Not surprisingly, it was full of sand. The kids were so excited they
jumped right into cleaning it up. (I wish they did the same for their chores.)
They even vacuumed up all the sand off the floor into their cheeks and dumped
it outside.
Christmas eve has finally arrived. I pushed the pipe out
the front door onto the freshly fallen snow. I positioned the pipe where Santa
couldn’t miss it.
I better try this first and make sure it smokes okay.
Are those sleigh bells I hear? And a jolly “ho-ho-ho?”
Quick, everyone off to bed. Santa is coming.
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