27
Nov
Seeing Things
November morning light.
Dinosaurs and milk mustaches.
Thanksgiving greetings.
Thanksgiving leftovers
Santa makes an appearance (and gets stuck).
You better watch out, you better not cry…
You better not pout, I’m telling you why.
Santa Claus is coming to town.
Happy Holidays! How was everyone’s Thanksgiving? We had both mine and my husband’s family in town over the weekend, so we had lots and lots of visitors. Sticking with last year’s non-traditional Thanksgiving tradition, we decided to save everyone some stress and order Chinese food take-out. The day after Thanksgiving, we all participated in the city of Lawrence’s annual downtown street-lighting celebration. After the lighting, the public gathers to watch the rescue of Santa Claus, a bizarre little tradition that’s gone on for I don’t know how long. Each year Santa finds himself stuck on the top of Weaver’s, the downtown department store. The city’s fire department rushes to the rescue him and therefore saves Christmas. Afterwards, kids have the chance to sit on his lap and make their Christmas requests, but it was extremely cold so we opted out of the latter.
The past few years I’ve been a bah humbug when it comes to Christmas, but seeing L’s face when she first saw Santa on top of Weaver’s was all the reason for me to get in the spirit of the holiday season.
Okay, I’m only a couple hours south of you, and I had no idea about this Lawrence tradition! That is so funny.
It’s so weird and fun. Very Lawrence 🙂
We attended our friend’s party. So we did not see Santa in downtown. Thank you for your photoes.
These two weeks I found L is much taller than before. The growth of kids is the happy resource of mothers.
I agree, Xiaohui and thank you. It was a pleasure seeing you and your family this year at storytime. Safe travels and please stay in touch!!