Dear Santa...

oh Christmas. how did you arrive so quickly? the most magical time of the year...the most happiest time of the year, the most wonderful time of the year.

oh how I miss the way things used to be, and I'm not talking about with people or missing people. I'm talking about just good ol' fashion ways... like sending real handwritten letters to people, getting Christmas cards instead of e-cards, making homemade gifts, calling and talking to people on the phone rather than reading their texts...you can't even make someone a mix tape/cd these days, because of the ipods and plugs in their cars they already have all their music with them! tear. just feeling a bit nostalgic.

if only we could carry the magic of Christmas with us, like glee's Brittney who still believed in Santa. why wouldn't you want to believe in all of that... I sure remember when I was told there was no Santa. crushed, sad, and won't let my aunt forget it! ha.

I miss the decorations, the lights, seeing dad get all excited about hanging the wreaths on the porch and the lights in the windows, testing them all before hanging them just right, when was the last time we all decorated the tree together? I wish I could remember. When was our last family vacation? Christmas time. It was our Christmas present year 2000 to Disney, left on Christmas day, came back January 3, 2001. such a great time, so much still to see even though we had been before, the fireworks over head at Magic Kingdom, Goofy and Daisy and Mickey and Minnie counting down to the new year, thousands of strangers standing in awe in the most magical place. such an amazing feeling, putting it into words does it no justice.



To be a kid again, this time of the year, is probably the only time you could convince me to relive these days...to see their faces light up when they see Santa coming down the street on the firetruck passing out candy (oh wait, that was my face all lit up just a few years ago, HA!), so hear them talk about writing Santa letters, watching movies from your childhood, some things just never get old... prancer, could watch that movie over and over. "feliz navidad," "all I want for Christmas," home alone....nostalgia.