{"id":3072,"date":"2011-12-21T11:56:54","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T15:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gargoyle:8011\/?p=3072"},"modified":"2011-12-21T11:56:54","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T15:56:54","slug":"waiting-for-santa-on-the-firetruck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/?p=3072","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for Santa on the firetruck&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gargoyle:8011\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/2011-12-21a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3073\" title=\"2011-12-21a\" src=\"http:\/\/gargoyle:8011\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/2011-12-21a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/2011-12-21a.jpg 550w, https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/2011-12-21a-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 85vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In our town, every year, Santa comes on a firetruck and hands out candy canes.\u00a0 They have been doing it since I was a little girl.\u00a0 But when I was little, Santa handed out an entire box of candy!!\u00a0 Not anymore.\u00a0 This year, they said Santa would come on Thursday or Saturday.\u00a0 So, that meant that we had to hang out and wait for him to arrive&#8230;.possibly for two days.\u00a0 On Thursday, after school, we started to hear the fire truck..so we ran outside and waited and waited and waited&#8230;no Santa. And it was freezing.\u00a0 Tuesday was wearing my shoes and was not properly dressed.\u00a0 The babies weren&#8217;t properly dressed&#8230;.and did I mention it was cold!!\u00a0 We went inside and waited by the window&#8230;.with the babies wrapped in blankets.\u00a0 We waited and waited&#8230;for what seemed like hours&#8230;finally we heard the sirens getting closer and closer&#8230;and he was on our street.\u00a0 Then, right before our house, he turned the corner and was gone!!\u00a0 The sirens got farther away until there were no more sirens.\u00a0 So much for Santa coming on Thursday!!\u00a0 So, on Saturday we waited again..all day&#8230;until it was about dark..and then he finally came!!\u00a0 By then, it was so cold I didn&#8217;t even bring the babies out!!\u00a0 River was so excited when he finally came!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gargoyle:8011\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/2011-12-21b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3074\" title=\"2011-12-21b\" src=\"http:\/\/gargoyle:8011\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/2011-12-21b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/2011-12-21b.jpg 550w, https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/2011-12-21b-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 85vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gargoyle:8011\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/2011-12-21c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3075\" title=\"2011-12-21c\" src=\"http:\/\/gargoyle:8011\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/2011-12-21c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/2011-12-21c.jpg 550w, https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/2011-12-21c-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 85vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gargoyle:8011\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/2011-12-21cc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3077\" title=\"2011-12-21cc\" src=\"http:\/\/gargoyle:8011\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/2011-12-21cc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/2011-12-21cc.jpg 550w, https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/2011-12-21cc-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 85vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gargoyle:8011\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/2011-12-21d.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3076\" title=\"2011-12-21d\" src=\"http:\/\/gargoyle:8011\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/2011-12-21d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/2011-12-21d.jpg 550w, https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/2011-12-21d-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 85vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our town, every year, Santa comes on a firetruck and hands out candy canes.\u00a0 They have been doing it since I was a little girl.\u00a0 But when I was little, Santa handed out an entire box of candy!!\u00a0 Not anymore.\u00a0 This year, they said Santa would come on Thursday or Saturday.\u00a0 So, that meant &hellip; 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