What did you leave for Santa?

[Curley Cole]

Notice we are buildin' to somethin' here? Anyway, what did you leave for Santa?

My mom always made the BEST chocolate chip cookies and fudge, so of course, we had to leave some of both and a big glass of milk. (What I wonder now, was during my mom's single days before my step-daad came along and she didn't eat much, where did the cookies and milk go? Do you suppose???)

Anyways, what did you leave the big guy?
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[Four-Eyed Buck]

Well, gee, Curley, the old guy probably couldn't look a chocolate chip cookie in the face the rest of the year! 'cause that's usually what I left him too! god thing the sleigh was empty by the end of the night, he probably put on quite a bit of weight by the end of the trip........Buck

[Micheal Fortune]

Used to, and still do leave milk and cookies, yep, got to be chocolate chip!

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[CanChaserKate]

We left Santa my Famous Chocolate Chip Cookies and Hot Chocolate 

[Jax Orebetter]

Well, I guess we are the oddballs. We left Christmas sugar cookies and milk for Santa and carrots for the reindeer.

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

We always figured Santa would get "sugared out", and had way too much work to do for one night, so we leave him a Molson Golden to drink when the ride is done.



AnnieLee

[Micheal Fortune]

Ahhh, Molson Golden,,,,, that's why sometimes we see him weaving his way back to the North Pole...... 

[Uncle Eph]

when I was a little feller I asked Dad what I should leave for Santa and he told me that Santa was getting plenty of snacks at all his other stops and would be real happy if we put out a couple flakes of hay for the reindeer, so Dad would toss them up on the roof and in the morning they would be gone and if we had snow there would tracks on the roof.

Dad was fifty years old when I was born and now that I am the age that he was when he use to climb up on that roof I sure do miss him and how much he loved me.

[J.D.Cayhill]

We left Santa some of Mrs. Cayhill's world famous sugar cookies and milk. After all those cookies Santa is probably so sugared up he could thread a running sewing machine. With that Molsons to wash it down with, he probably pulled the sleigh back to the North Pole while the reindeer drove.

[Marshal Halloway]

Well, I guess we forgot to leave something for Santa this year, but this thread reminds me of something from my childhood.

I grew up in in Norway and the first years of my life, we had a small dairy farm, the perfect surroundings for an oldfashioned country Christmas.

On Christmas Eve, I had the honor as the youngest of six children to make a trip to the barn with a bowl of porridge (hot cereal) for the "nisse", some called him little Santa Claus, or the gnome who -- according to superstition -- is the protector of the farm. My elder brothers sure made me believe he existed. It was dark, so I really didn't want to go there by myself and one of the brothers always came along as a security guard. "Listen! Can you hear him?" Sure, I could. With all the sounds there are in a cowbarn, it was easy for me to hear "him". Believe it or not, but on Christmas morning, the bowl was empty. I guess some small critters had one heck of a meal.   

[Calamity Jane]

In the fireplace, right under the chimney, a BEAR TRAP! That'll teach 'im ta go sneakin 'round in the middle of the night !