Nick and Shoes

Can’t wait until Christmas?

You don’t have to!

Go and check your shoes…

Right now!

Is there anything in them?

Are they filled with lollies?

Apples or Nuts?

Coins?

Did you find a present?

No?

Maybe you didn’t leave

 your shoes by the chimney?

Maybe next year.

Today is St Nicholas Day.

Kids leave their shoes

by the chimney,

Good Old Nick turns up

 during the night and leaves

 a small gift in the kids' (stinky) shoes!

I did read about one poor

 teacher’s story

about this tradition.

She taught some childen

who were lucky enough

to have been visited by St Nicholas.

 They came to school,

excited and happy to tell their

classmates all about it.

 Those poor kids who were not

 visited by St Nick were

devastated and crying,

asking why they were not visited!

Oh, imagine!

I wonder how worried those kids

 were on Christmas Eve –

and how relieved

they must have been

 to wake up to presents

 on Christmas Day!

On that note – I have had

to supress a grin or two

when the kids in my class

 have told me about seeing Santa –

the REAL one!!

Oh, the fun of Christmas

when Santa is still real!