Outtahere
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What is your favorite memory of Christmas when you were a child? A toy? A tradition?
I'll start this off with my favorite thing when I was a kid. I lived in a town that every Christmas Eve they would load up a flatbed with Santa, his sleigh and reindeer. It was all lit up and accompanied by a police car and a fire truck. They would go up and down every street in town no matter what the weather with Santa waving to all the kids.
We lived in a duplex, our bedrooms on the 2nd floor, I remember my mother letting us stay up until Santa went by. She let us open the windows, even though it was cold and snowing. to wave to him as he went by. The three of us were beside ourselves with excitement and couldn't wait to get to bed so he could come back and leave his presents.
As an adult I live on the road next to that town, I still get to wave to Santa every Christmas Eve as he uses my road as part of his route. This has also become a tradition for dh's children and grandchildren and hopefully someday his great grand children.
Oh and they have added a tow truck to the procession
They also go out no matter what the weather, we've seen him in blizzards, rainstorms covered with plastic or nights so cold that they constructed a plastic enclosure for him.
I'll start this off with my favorite thing when I was a kid. I lived in a town that every Christmas Eve they would load up a flatbed with Santa, his sleigh and reindeer. It was all lit up and accompanied by a police car and a fire truck. They would go up and down every street in town no matter what the weather with Santa waving to all the kids.
We lived in a duplex, our bedrooms on the 2nd floor, I remember my mother letting us stay up until Santa went by. She let us open the windows, even though it was cold and snowing. to wave to him as he went by. The three of us were beside ourselves with excitement and couldn't wait to get to bed so he could come back and leave his presents.
As an adult I live on the road next to that town, I still get to wave to Santa every Christmas Eve as he uses my road as part of his route. This has also become a tradition for dh's children and grandchildren and hopefully someday his great grand children.
Oh and they have added a tow truck to the procession