Comments on: Encounters with Santa Claus https://jeffbelanger.com/encounters-with-santa-claus/ Exploring the Unexplained Wed, 08 Apr 2020 21:01:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: Leslie https://jeffbelanger.com/encounters-with-santa-claus/#comment-25 Sun, 17 Dec 2006 17:24:02 +0000 http://www.jeffbelanger.com/blog/?p=7#comment-25 I remember pulling off a good one with my kids one year.
We always opened our gifts on Christmas Eve. So when we would leave to visit the family that night, I always ran back in the house, saying I forgot something, and put all the presents out.
When we would return, the kids would be surprised!

One year, we came home and my older children (who knew already) helped me pull off a great surprise for the little ones.
As we drove up to the house, they were telling them, look! look! wasn’t that a sleigh on the roof? The little ones were looking and and jumping all over the car to look out the windows. My husband and I kept it up with, “Oh your gonna miss him! He just left our house!”.”Wow, he moves so fast.” The little ones were running about the yard for a few seconds, then realized….they should run into the house and look! They were convinced they too saw him leave the roof top! They were so excited, we giggled at the way they ran around and then into the house.

One year, our old dog left us a surprise when we arrived home to pull this one off. We had chocolate Santa’s for the kids, in the foil and there was a can of flavored almonds on the table.
Maggie, the old dalmation, could open things, even tin cans. She ate all the chocolate Santa’s and all the almonds. We walked into the livingroom filled with chocolate covered whole almonds with tin foil mixed in. That was a wonderful treat!

He he he…
Leslie

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