Here's a short story I wrote about a great-grandma and the doll she wants for Christmas...
I still want a doll… Santa Claus
This is the story of a Christmas wish…
Most of us have gotten our Christmas wishes or something very close to it. But times were different at the turn of the 1900s. When you hear people say that they were poor as a kid, they were truly poor. There are people even today who are poor, but today there are programs and groups to help people. Back then there was no such help.
In the poorest of poor towns, local Santas would visit every year. Coal from him would have been a welcome gift, warmth in the cold weather. Times were tough and the people even tougher. People would get presents from the local Santa helpers…oranges, maybe some candy. If you were lucky, new socks. But for one little girl, she never got that special gift she longed for…a doll. There was never enough money for such a gift. That little girl grew up and had a family of her own. She married a hard working man and they had children that got Christmas presents, food, and warmth. She worked hard all her life taking care of everyone else… She sat there one Christmas watching her great grandchildren get their gifts and noticed that one of the girls got a beautiful curly haired, fancy dressed porcelain doll. She smiled and then whispered to herself “I would still love a doll.”
Ho Ho Ho - Merry Christmas!
I'm so excited - just out getting the reindeer in shape - boy, it sure is starting to feel like Christmas.
Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Do you have your Christmas tree up - and stockings hung yet?
The Man Behind the Story of Father Christmas/Santa Claus. St. Nicholas was a Bishop who lived in the fourth century in a place called Myra in Asia Minor (now called Turkey). He was a very rich man because his parents died when he was young and left him a lot of money.
Merry Christmas
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