Quest for A Perfect Christmas
Christmas spirit is incomplete without Santa My 5-year-old asked “We don’t have a chimney. How would Santa come into our home, eat his cookies and leave my presents under the tree?” This had been bugging him from past 10 days. His incessant botheration meant that I turned my energies towards securing a perfect Christmas for him. I am happy to share that his Christmas turned out to be great. How I did it? To resolve my son’s conundrum, during the wee hours of Christmas I wore my winter armour (snow jacket, snow boots, gloves and snow pants) and stepped out in my backyard. I walked till the fence balancing myself on the soft snow and bending sideways drew with my finger something which resembled reindeer footprints. I retraced my steps back carefully to avoid duplication of my footprints. For a moment I felt like a gymnast whose balancing act on snow could earn him a medal in the Olympics. My son woke up, came downstairs and by ...