Each year. Every year.
It was important to visit with Santa, just to be certain that he knew what we wanted to find under our Christmas tree.
Often the meeting location was the local mall. But just as often it was the work or office Christmas party.
The location was not the important point. The essential point of the outing was ensuring Santa was aware of the expectations.
Here is the photographic record of some of those Santa encounters.
Yours Truly with my sister Lou-Anne and brother Bob (seated on Santa’s lap), probably from around 1964
My mother knit the sweater I was wearing. It was during the Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett furor.
Yours Truly with my late wife Karen, in 1984, with our then two children John and baby Lisa, who was more interested at the time in Santa’s beard than what was to be under the tree on Christmas morning.
Our youngest, Jenna with Santa at an office Christmas party in 1990.
My late wife Karen at an office Christmas party around 1991.