Is Santa Claus Real?Is Santa Claus real? Of course he is... he has many helpers each year to be able to attend all the Christmas celebrations around the world, but he is real! Marcia's Christmas story of Santa is pretty cool!! The REAL Truth About Santa
By: Marcia Reagan, Saint Cloud, MN I have such good memories of Christmas as a child. Every year, we would go to my grandparents house. I had many aunts and uncles and dozens of cousins who were also there. Every family brought food with them, so it was good times, good food and good memories. The best part of spending Christmas at my grandparents was the special event my grandmother planned each year. Since there were so many kids at the house, Grandma arranged for Santa Claus to come right to their house to visit us. They lived on a large farm, so we would hear Santa's bells start ringing from quite a distance. I'm not sure how our parents kept us from looking outside, but I do remember being told that Santa had arrived in his sleigh, pulled by his reindeer. Santa would come into the house and sit on an easy chair and talk to all of us kids. (The picture you see is an actual Polaroid photo of the Santa from my childhood.) He would tell us stories about what was happening at the North Pole, how his reindeer were doing, how busy the elves were and that Mrs. Claus was a little upset with him for not losing more weight before Christmas. With all the cookies he'd be eating and the milk he would be drinking, he'd have a hard time fitting into his suit. He also had his big red velvet bag full of presents to hand out to us. We were children from families who could not afford a lot of presents at Christmas, so Santa visiting us personally was more than we could dream. As all my cousins and my brothers and sister and I grew up, Santa quit coming. Of course, that?s because we were getting older and we were learning that there really was no Santa Claus. To me, it didn't matter. The memories I had of Santa visiting me at my grandparents would last a lifetime. Or so I thought. I thought I had learned the truth about Santa when I was eight or nine and figured out that Santa wasn't real. But I learned the REAL truth about Santa when I was around fifteen years old.I remember I was sitting in our kitchen talking to my mom about different subjects. Somewhere in the conversation, the subject of our childhood Santa got brought up and this is when my mom shared the real truth with me. The REAL truth was... Our Santa Claus was a woman! My mom told me the person who played Santa for us all those years was the nurse who attended the birth of all five of the children in our family. I could not believe my ears. All those awesome memories of my childhood Santa were crushed in less than thirty seconds! I'm an adult now, with children of my own who are almost grown. I can happily say that I'm almost over the trauma that was caused the day I found out that Santa had a gender identity crisis. Marcia Reagan is author and creator of DaycareAnswers.com, a website full of caring and reliable information and activities for parents and daycare providers to assist in raising good children. |
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