reindeer on Christmas Eve? I was about six, when I did. And the sound was coming from outside a kitchen window across from
my bedroom. I froze in bed, as I just knew it was "HIM", checking up on me. I learned many years
later, my grandpa had been outside shaking some sleigh bells he had on his farm. And it made a
little girl both scared and excited one Christmas Eve. I had to call my mother afterward, to tell her
what I'd heard, before I could try to go to sleep. I just knew he was checking his list to see if I was
a good girl, and would get a present from him. I never wanted to give up the hope, that there was a
Santa Claus. In fact, I searched the sky for him every Christmas Eve after that, still hoping, and
still wanting to believe, until I was 12.
my bedroom. I froze in bed, as I just knew it was "HIM", checking up on me. I learned many years
later, my grandpa had been outside shaking some sleigh bells he had on his farm. And it made a
little girl both scared and excited one Christmas Eve. I had to call my mother afterward, to tell her
what I'd heard, before I could try to go to sleep. I just knew he was checking his list to see if I was
a good girl, and would get a present from him. I never wanted to give up the hope, that there was a
Santa Claus. In fact, I searched the sky for him every Christmas Eve after that, still hoping, and
still wanting to believe, until I was 12.