Reindeer Food
Greetings to all.
One of the problems with trying to accommodate the celebrating of Christmas with so many people whose schedules did not align was trying to keep the magic in it for Xavier. His class in school, unaware of our plight, provided us some help.
One of the school projects he did was create a package to attract Santa's reindeer to our house.
The instructions, in effect, read: spread the food in the lawn and the reindeer will know to land at your house.
We held on to the food during Christmas Break. Tonight, we set the food out as per the instructions. We told Xavier it would help Santa find the house since Christmas Day had passed. We said Santa was going to make a special trip just to fill his stocking.
We waited until the sun had set and dusk had passed. Xavier thought it best to pour out the food in the front garden. So, that is what we did. After spreading the food out, Xavier had a little excitement, then wanted to return to the house.
A few hours later, before I left to pick Xavier's Aunt Kathy up at the airport, I took a rake and roughed up the ground and buried the rolled oat mix (aka Reindeer Food).
My plan tomorrow morning is to go into Xavier's room excited when I wake him. "The reindeer food is gone! Santa came! He found the house. He filled your stocking!"