I've watched so many Christmas shows during my days off from work that I started thinking (and laughing) about all of my family's crazy Christmas holidays. I don't know that many of you will find these memories as exciting and funny as we do, but you may get a chuckle or two if you know us at all!!!
Over the years my family has made many, many trips back and forth to Indiana; especially when we first moved to Pampa. We would never have thought about missing a Thanksgiving or Christmas and would make the trip home no matter what...even if it meant traveling on Christmas Eve.
I was 6 and my sister was 9 when we made this Christmas Eve trip home. I was a tad upset that we would be traveling on the night Santa was going to be delivering gifts. Chantelle was upset, but not as devasted as me which made no sense at all!! I just couldn't figure out how in the world he would know where to find us? It wasn't like he could land his sleigh on top of our van to deliver our presents and everyone knows that he doesn't come to your house unless you're asleep!! Well, Mom and Dad wouldn't be sleeping any time soon since we were driving 1,000 miles straight through (which we did often) so that we could be there on Christmas Day. I couldn't figure any of this out and just knew we would be forgotten. But even with all those odds against us Mom and Dad assured us that Santa would find us and all would be ok. Mom even brought our stockings and set them out just like she would've done if we were at home. I still didn't quite believe them, but Chantelle and I fell asleep anyway.
Like most kids we woke up in the middle of the night, probably to fill up with gas or take a bathroom break and there were our stockings and guess what???? THEY WERE FULL!!!! Santa did it!! He found us and got into our van without Mom and Dad seeing him!!! How was that possible??? Santa is AWESOME!!! I got the Astroids handheld Atari game!!! I loved it! How did Santa know that I was looking at that with my dad at Radio Shack a few weeks earlier???
Santa finding us on the road and being at Grandma & Grandpa's on Christmas Day with all my aunts, uncles, and cousins has to be one of the greatest Christmas memories of all!! That year I learned that Santa really could do anything! Later on I learned something my sister already knew...so could my parents!!!
Like most kids we woke up in the middle of the night, probably to fill up with gas or take a bathroom break and there were our stockings and guess what???? THEY WERE FULL!!!! Santa did it!! He found us and got into our van without Mom and Dad seeing him!!! How was that possible??? Santa is AWESOME!!! I got the Astroids handheld Atari game!!! I loved it! How did Santa know that I was looking at that with my dad at Radio Shack a few weeks earlier???
Santa finding us on the road and being at Grandma & Grandpa's on Christmas Day with all my aunts, uncles, and cousins has to be one of the greatest Christmas memories of all!! That year I learned that Santa really could do anything! Later on I learned something my sister already knew...so could my parents!!!
