I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day!

On Sunday it was the Christmas Parade and Santa Claus came to Howick!

The Kids from Botany Downs School were magical! 

Santa's workshop at the North Pole was filled with mischievous elves busily making toys and Santa's list was being written - he knows if you've been good!! 

The toy workshop was filled with sweet candy canes and delicious gingerbread men. The toy soldiers marched proudly in their smart red uniforms with shiny brass buttons and happily played their tin drums. The sweetest sugar plum fairy led the soldiers with her graceful dance. Her clockwork key was wound only once and she danced for the entire time until the music stopped. The Christmas gifts followed, carefully wrapped in their festive paper and silvery ribbons. The music played and the crowd loved it.

So, is there a Santa Claus? 

Here is a piece written by Francis Church back in 1897:

"Yes, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to our life its highest beauty and joy.

Alas! How dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no ‘you’. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Is it all real? In all this world there is nothing else as real and abiding.

No Santa Claus? Thank God he lives and he lives forever. 

A thousand years from now, maybe ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the hearts of children."

Enjoy the video…