2006-07-31 09:19:56 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
When I was about 7 I got up on Christmas eve and I would swear that I saw Santa's sleigh and his reindeer in our driveway where the Dodge Duster was suppose to be. I think he used our driveway while he made his rounds in the neighborhood 'cuz I never saw him in the house. I SWEAR!!
2006-08-01 01:42:36 · answer #1 · answered by Sherri H 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
When my children were little and asleep on Christmas Eve I would do whatever had to be done with their gifts, have the Yule Log on television, and when I was done I'd get myself some tea. I would then turn down the lights in the living/dining rooms, sit with only the window candles on and the Yule Log on the television and relax after a busy Christmas season and before I had to get the big dinner for my many guests in a matter of hours. My large window was filled with poinsettias, and the white sheer curtains looked ethereal by the many white candles.
Santa is different when you have three little children, though, and I always knew that I should not sleep until I knew for sure that Santa was coming. That's why I would always leave my tea, go out in my front yard (which was on a hill), look up at the ethereal
window with all the poinsettias in it, and then look up at the sky to find the North Star and see if I could see Santa's sleigh. I never wore a coat because part of the magic was to feel the cold December night air, stand on either frozen snow or frozen lawn, and keep looking and looking to see if I might spot Santa's sleigh.
In the silence and crispness and darkness of the December night I saw only stars, my own Christmas lights and the black sky; but in the quiet of those Christmas Eve nights out there on the hill I would always hear - way off in the distance - the faint jingle of the sleighbells, and when I heard them I would linger out there for just a while longer before heading back in to sleep now that I knew Santa was definitely on the way.
Out there in the middle of the Winter night darkness as my children and their father slept peacefully in the warm house, I was both exquisitely alone and yet so surrounded by the magic that children and Santa bring that I could really hear those sleighbells.
You may think it was my imagination because I was so happy at the time, but years later I lost my mother one November. Needless to say, that Christmas was a quiet one. I happened to be staying at my mother's home that Christmas, so I went through the motions and put a single white candle in her window.
For some reason, and without a shred of Christmas feeling, I found myself heading out to her front yard in the middle of the night to look for the North Star. With only a single candle in the window and in a darkness that was everywhere, I found the star and didn't see much reason to stay out there too long. Just as I was about to head into the house that was so empty-seeming there they were - off in the distance and faint but there nonetheless - Santa's sleighbells.. I don't know what magic let me hear them or how on Earth I could still hear them, but there they were as they've always been. Its kind of magic, isn't it ...
2006-08-01 03:22:47 · answer #2 · answered by WhiteLilac1 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I sure did see Santa. I seen Santa Claus kissing my mom and now I have a little brother !
2006-07-31 16:36:17 · answer #3 · answered by MizzSweetness 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no
last year, at the mall..............there was two santa claus was walking from the distance(appears that one is leaving for a break and other is coming to work)
and two little kids saw this(dont know them) and ask their mommy and daddy why there is two santa claus and they started to cries
i felt bad for them.....they are not even 5 yet and it was disgrace in my opionon
2006-07-31 22:06:22 · answer #4 · answered by DivaStar 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I saw Santa in the mall! And every Christmas when I left out cookies and milk, they were gone in the morning! Santa is real!!
2006-07-31 16:24:34 · answer #5 · answered by i luv teh fishes 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
whenever anyone gives a gift without expecting a
return they are being "santa claus". they just are not
wearing the red outfit.
2006-07-31 16:24:35 · answer #6 · answered by agedlioness 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christmas Eve, ahh. Outside, inside, everywhere. but a fake one
2006-08-01 01:10:49 · answer #7 · answered by Shiny, Shiny! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I saw him running down the street once at 2:00am ringing bells.
2006-07-31 23:41:51 · answer #8 · answered by K.O. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No but one Christmas he bought me a sled I found two weeks before in a closet.
2006-07-31 18:21:31 · answer #9 · answered by tensnut90_99 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, he was in my house one Christmas Eve when we got home from a family get together.
2006-07-31 16:24:03 · answer #10 · answered by sdarp1322 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋