Wordy Wednesday Christmas Eve Flashback

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I first told this story on December 24, 2020 

A true Christmas  Eve Story from 1956

In case the font above is too small, I have it below in a larger font.

Twas Christmas Eve in NC

Back in the year 1956

with my Annie Ma* we lived.

Next door lived my Aunt and Uncle

and cousin Carol.

Carol was older and she thought wiser.

A few days before Christmas,

She was overheard telling gullible me

That Santa had no sleigh 

and reindeer could not fly?

Oh my what was I to believe...

I was about to cry

My uncle and my daddy were clever men.

No worries, they had a plan.

The Ladies were to keep the

children at the front of the house. 

The men vowed,

we'll be as quiet as a mouse.

Bed time came, stories were read

and we children were tucked snug in bed.

As our eyes became heavy,

and pillows cradled our heads

There was a sound bells ringing  

and a thump thump thump on the roof overhead.

The children asked what is that clatter

The ladies shook their heads

asking what did it matter?

We proclaimed with glee

it must be Santa and his reindeer.

We pulled the covers over our head and 

quickly to dream land we went.

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Side note: Carol age 10 once again became a believer

It was many years before we discovered the source of the 

thump on the roof and the ringing bells.  My daddy was on the roof walking over our bedroom and my uncle was running around the house shaking as set of bells.

*Annie Ma was my maternal Grandmother.  The first grandchild could not

pronounce "G".  Grandma became Annie Ma.