Father Christmas

day off and enjoy it. At this time I was 11 years old. My family being my sister, my mother and my cat. My birth parents recently got divorced the previous month, it was for the best. Life was getting better, after years of moving houses to avoid my father who followed us everywhere we went it was over, or so I thought. My mother had a good job at a mountain lodge, we had a small cabin just out of the town. It was covered in snow for a good part of the year during winter, In spring there was…

Houston Community College Police force’s Sergeant Reginald Johnson made Christmas very merry for six underprivileged families. With the help of Officer Felicia Carter and Officer Karen Davis, he hosted his annual holiday celebration with at the West Loop campus on Tuesday. Sgt. Johnson was over fifteen years ago when he started asking coworkers to each give $20. Walmart donated all the toys for the children and $40 gift cards for the parents. Each of the six kids received five gifts each.…

BELIEVING IN MYTHOLOGICAL HEROES 2 “Seven days, there are seven days left until Christmas!” For a young child one of the best parts about holidays are the mythological heroes who’s tales come with them. Children across the country become ecstatic when Christmas, Easter, and the tooth fairy come, and they wait patiently all year for those to happen. Christmas gives children a reason to be on their best behavior all year, Easter allows children to hunt eggs,…

do the dragon dance on the streets during the spring festival(Valdez). Yes, we did have this tradition, but we do not do it a lot now. It is more like a symbol for it, we only do it for some TV shows now. Just like I did not know anything about Christmas before I come to America, People here have…

It all started when Stephen woke up on christmas Day like any other kid. He was so excited, but when he got down to check and see if Santa had come, sadly there where only two crying elfs. He goes to see what was wrong. They said that their names were Andrew and Callie. They went on to explain that Santa had been kidnapped. So instantly acting on pure instinct he stole his mother's car keys and “drove” to the airport. He managed to get into a airplane. As they tried to take off the guard…

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respectful towards others, and gives children happy memories to look back on. The man that can deliver presents to all the children in the world in a single night, is a story told to children about how a man named Santa clause does the impossible every Christmas Eva. In a world where people are constantly fighting each other to get places in life, it all just seems impossible. Though, old Saint Nick instills in children that they can do the impossible thing even if it seems futile. He teaches…

were not at home. I was in charge of keeping the presents in my closet till it was time to open presents. When we were talking about it in class, it made me realize how tough it actually is to continue with this lie. My family and I love watching christmas movies over the holiday, so I would always tell my little brother Santa must be real, we see him…

When people think of Christmas the first thing one may think of is, Santa Claus or St. Nick. Santa is the person that brings joy and present during the night, but only for the good children. What about the bad children? In present time toady, the story is that naughty children get a lump of coal, while the good children get presents. But will getting a lump of coal really change naughty children into nice? Introducing bad Santa, Krampus! Who is portrayed as a half-goat, half-demon, horrific…

Believe The sound of feet pattering down the stairs fills a warm house. It is seven o’clock in the morning, but not just any morning...Christmas Day. The children rush to the living room to find that under their Christmas tree sits a collection of presents with matching paper. Santa has come. The parents joyfully observe as their children happily tear open their gifts from Santa, reflecting on how they had placed them in just the right spots under the tree the previous night. Unaware of this…