Our tradition is to open gifts on Christmas eve, then hit a candleight service, then return home. The kids usually place a plate with a cookie, a single malt scotch and a carrot for the reindeer. Well now that the girls are getting older and wiser, they thought it wasnt good for Santa to be drinking scotch as that might impair his sleigh driving abilities, so he got a diet pepsi instead. By morning the pepsi was drunk, only crumbs remained of the cookie, and the carrot Santa must have fed to his reindeer! The truth is I decided I couldnt waste the carrot, so I chewed it and chewed it, then spit a little of the orange clumps outside in the snow in the driveway....thinking that this might lead to further evidence that Santa fed the reindeer and that he must have been feeding them right outside the door. So this morning after the kids opened presents and were pleased that Santa ate his share, they went outside and the first thing they discovered was the bits of carrot that lay in the snow. To the girls it was evidence alright, however it was evidence of a different kind. The first thing they said was "LOOK Dad! It's Reindeer poop!!!"!
Happy Holidays and a happy New Year!
Blue Eyed Peas
Auke Bay, Alaska