I'm SO Bored!

I was too busy this week to call Matt about my photo problem. And I've had literally dozens of things I wanted to blog about -- but would need pictures to do it up properly.

I decided to look through my old photo albums to see how many Christmas quilts I had pictures of. Look what I found!

Isn't this the most awful, bedraggled Santa you've ever seen? No wonder I looked scared to death! LOL. My mother loved this picture. But then I think I already said she had absolutely no sense of humor.

On the other hand, he DOES look a little folk-arty, in a grungy kinda way. I guess there weren't many Santas to choose from in Sulphur, Louisiana.

OMG, I just thought of the funniest story. When Don was working on his first college degree, with a wife also in college and a new little baby, he decided to work as Santa at Sears in Lake Charles to earn a little extra Christmas money. Okay, Mom was mortified, but Dad and I thought it was great!! (Oh, my, how we loved to mortify Mom!) But I digress.

So Don was all padded up and costumed on his first day as Santa. Dad and I couldn't wait to get over there to check him out. We were standing there watching him when our next door neighbor walked up with her two grandsons. They were such bad little boys ... the terror of the neighborhood ... but they were both absolutely adorable. Blonde hair, blue eyes.

So Todd gets up on Santa's lap first. Santa said, "Todd, have you been a good little boy?" Todd just was shocked that Santa knew his name. I mean, you should have seen the look on this kid's face. He didn't miss a beat, though, and said he had been very good. Santa said, "Well, what about the time..." and proceeded to tell Todd about something bad he had done. His grandmother and Dad and I were laughing so hard. That's when Todd decided it best to start rattling off his Christmas list. Santa said, "Todd, are you sure you deserve all those things after doing ...." and said another bad thing Todd had done.

Todd looked at him for the longest time .... then promptly got down off of Santa's lap, walked over to his Grandma and declared, "I don't like this Santa. Let's go find another one!"

I don't know how many years it was before Todd was told the whole story, but he was a lot better after that! LOL

And just in case Santa is keeping a list and checking it twice ...... I've been VERY good this year!

Gratitudes:

~ I think we've solved a problem at work. Happy dancing!

~ That means no work this weekend! More happy dancing!

~ A nice breeze this evening while walking Daisy.

~ Dinner: potato chips and a banana. (I really must start cooking!)

~ Happiness is box(es) from the Fat Quarter Shop!! sssshhhh........