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Surprising Your Child with a Personal Letter From Santa
Surprising Your Child With a Personal Letter From Santa
By Clare Ticer
Remember when you were growing up, and each year you would write a letter to Santa. You would spend weeks thinking about what you wanted to write to Santa. Then you would spend hours writing the perfect letter. You would become so excited about sending it, that nothing would be the same until it was in the mail.
The day you put your letter in the mailbox you would not be able to sit still until you saw the mailman pick it up. You never knew if Santa received your letter until Christmas morning. The anticipation used to drive me crazy. I had always wished I would have received a personal letter from Santa. Any form of communication or acknowledgement that would have let me know whether he received my letter.
As a parent, you can just imagine the look on your child’s face if they were able to receive a personal letter from Santa. Especially since, these are memories that your child will always remember, always cherish and will stay with them for a lifetime. When your child receives a personalized letter in the mail, they will be thrilled just to receive something. Once, they realize that the letter is from Santa it will seem like something that is too good to be true. They will be extremely surprised to realize that Santa even knows their name. They will feel like a superstar! It will also be a priceless moment that any parent will treasure forever.
Nowadays, parents no longer have to take the time to write their own personal letter from Santa. Parents will no longer have to spend hours trying to make Santa’s signature look authentic, or going all over town to find just the right green ink, or trying to figure out how to get a postmark stamp from the North Pole. Thanks to modern technology, parents can now create a personal letter from Santa online. There are now websites dedicated to helping parents develop an authentic personalized letter from Santa for each boy and girl in your house that still believe in Santa Claus.
The letter will look like it was mailed directly from Santa’s workshop. Parent will also be able to include personalized information; such as eye color, hair color and best friend. You will be able to modify the letter to add in your own personal touches. Some of this information should be facts that only Santa would know. When your child believes in Santa, their entire goal is to make Santa’s list. Your child will do everything to make sure they make the nice list. Receiving a letter from Santa will help to validate your child’s efforts.
CJ Ticer is a publisher for Contact Santa Claus. Getting a personalized letter from Santa is something your child will never forget and great fun for the whole family!
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Is it more likely that Santa Claus is real than Jesus Christ?
Santa Claus is a being who supposedly lives at the North Pole and supposedly flies in a magical sleigh with reindeer every Christmas Eve to give presents to children.
Jesus Christ was supposedly a real person who was supposedly born of a virgin mother, was supposedly the son of God, supposedly healed sick people, and supposedly rose from the dead.
Isn’t there more evidence for the existence of Santa Claus than there is for the existence of Jesus? Isn’t the Jesus story more fantastical and absurd than the Santa story?
Donna
Who is Mrs. Santa Claus, Really?
While history has done a fairly good job presenting the established depiction of Santa Claus as the chubby, jolly, old, bearded man in a red suit, there has been little done to create a clear picture about the character and nature of Mrs. Claus. While she is generally seen as a loving, supportive, and kind women, many people are unsure what is the real personality and character surrounding this true leading lady?
Innovative and adventurous young people have begun to portray “Ms.” Claus as a hip, sexy, and enthusiastic helper to the great Saint Nick. There are a wide variety of costumes and suits available to Santa’s favorite helper, including basic red suits with short skirts and sleek boots. Interesting accessories, including stylish belts and hats add to the fun.
Many still like to think of Mrs. Claus as the traditional homemaker who displays elegance and glamour and gives great calm to Santa and his helpers during the stressful Christmas season. Traditional Mrs. Claus Christmas gowns and costumes are readily available for those wanting to maintain a classic look for the wife of Santa Claus.
Christmas costumes allow people to give great life to classic characters. Mrs. Claus is often overshadowed by her husband. After all, Santa is viewed as a jolly old man who flies around with eight reindeer on Christmas Eve night, spreading joy and cheer and giving great gifts to children. As many women suggest, however, behind every good man is a great woman.
Most Christmas movies and television shows tend to show Mrs. Claus as a loving, nurturing, traditional wife. With all the time and effort that Santa and his helpers put into making Christmas a great time of year, Mrs. Claus must be the stabilizing presence at the North Pole. She prepares and hosts the Christmas Eve meal for Santa and all his helpers before the work of the night begins.
While the entertainment world has stuck to the classic presentation of jolly old Saint Nick and his elderly and elegant wife, many adventurous, young women have chosen to give “Ms.” Claus a more youthful persona. With sleek and sexy suits that would make “Mrs.” Claus blush, young women have created an interesting new take on Santa’s lady that conveys excitement, energy, adventure, fun, and enthusiasm.
Whether a woman chooses to give Lady Claus a traditional and elegant look or a young and adventurous personality, she must do so in style and with a high quality Christmas costume. There are many cheap options available that can give someone the basic look of the mother of Christmas. But, fashion conscious women realize that quality fabric, trendy styles, and glamorous accessories can take a plain Mrs. Claus and make her shine as Santa’s right hand woman.
Davis
Santa Claus Around the World
Christmas is a worldwide phenomenon, and so is the holiday’s number one fan and symbol, Santa Claus. So it makes sense that because people all over the world celebrate Christmas differently, they also see Santa in different ways and have different traditions.
For instance, in France Christmas goes by the term Noel, and Santa goes by the name Pere Noel. Like the United States, the French who celebrate the holiday do so with a Christmas tree. Sometimes, the French decorate their trees in the traditional, which is with bright red ribbons and real candles, instead of the garland, electric lights, and fancy decorations used in the US. They also believe in decorating outside, especially the evergreen trees on their properties, which they cover with lights that they leave on all night long.
In Hungary, the Christmas tradition is a bit different than the French or American versions. In this Eastern European country, Santa Claus is called the “Winter Grandfather,” or Mikulas in their language. He comes not on Christmas Eve, but on December 6. It’s the job of children before this day to make sure that they are clean and that they have cleaned their rooms. For these good children, Winter Grandfather leaves candies and toys for them in freshly cleaned shoes or boots. For those children who don’t clean? They get a golden birch, which means they deserve a spanking! In Hungary it’s not Santa Claus (or Winter Grandfather), but Baby Jesus and the angels who brings presents and the Christmas tree on Christmas Eve. To give him time to set them up, families usually go visit a relative’s house or go to the movies.
In Germany, the holidays are all about the decorations. They love putting electric candles in their lights, and covering their homes with all sorts of lights and colors. The German specialty decoration is the Adventskranz, which is actually a leaf wreath with four candles in it. And like many American homes, Germans like to decorate inside with a manger scene, the famous depiction of the stable, with Baby Jesus, Mary, Joseph, animals, and the Three Wise Men. Father Christmas brings children from Germany presents on Christmas Eve, while St. Nicholas brings small gifts on December 6.
Kids should consider moving to Latvia along the Baltic Sea for Christmas time. There, Father Christmas brings presents for all of the 12 days of Christmas, with the first day of gift giving coming on Christmas Eve. Latvia also claims to be the home of the first ever Christmas tree, documented in the year 1510. Then again, you might want to check the menu before visiting this country. The traditional meal on Christmas is brown peas with bacon sauce, sausage, cabbage, and small pies.
Here’s a meal that sounds delectable and Christmas will still be a blast—it’s in New Zealand. Since Christmas arrives in the middle of summer for New Zealand children, their Christmas dinners usually include foods on the BBQ, like ham, shrimp and fish. Many towns enjoy Christmas parades throughout the holiday season. Similar to children in America, families open Christmas presents from Santa Claus on Christmas Day. However, some people love Christmas so much, they also celebrate this Santa-driven holiday in the middle of July, when it is cold enough for a proper English Christmas dinner.
Wherever you are on the map, you can obviously enjoy Christmas in one way or another. And don’t worry. With his reindeer-powered sleigh, Santa will find you no matter where in the world you are living.
Terrell