Is She Serious?

Today’s Letter To Krampus Inspired By The WP Prompt: Tell us one thing you hope people say about you.

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Dear Krampus

Upon occasion I run across a picture on line where Santa is kneeling next to baby Jesus in his cradle.

There are comments under the picture like ” HE is the reason for the season ” and I stop and have to ask- I MUST ask, are they talking about Jesus or Santa?”

Don’t laugh Krampus –  because I am serious and I hope people know that for a fact.

Really.

I am being serious.

Ho Ho Ho.

amm

Dear Krampus

Today’s Letter to Krampus was inspired by the Holidailies Prompt: Did you believe in Santa Claus/Father Christmas? How did you find out the truth? Would you tell your kids about Santa?

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Dear Krampus,

When I was little my family told me Santa Claus was story.

I mean, there was never a time when I believed in Santa or the Easter Bunny or even the tooth fairy were real.

They weren’t so quick to say YOU weren’t real, but they were a little more sketchy on the details about you.

They believed in ghosts and things like that, so maybe that is why.

Anyway,  before you or anybody else starts to think my family were a bunch of holiday killjoys I have to stop you right there.

My Grandfather told me that Santa was a story and only the best story tellers could spin a story so real that Santa became real.

Joining the Santa Story Club was an elite club- but anyone could be a member and try.

I try to tell Christmas stories but they sort of lack spirit, if you know what I

mean, but that doesn’t stop me from trying.

On the other hand, Dear Krampus, you have always and probably shall remain very real to me.

AMM

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Dear Krampus-My First Letter

Fandangos One Word Challenge ” Transgression ”  has  inspired me to create a series of posts with one theme- My Letters To Krampus- ho ho ho!

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Christmas isn’t exactly my favorite time of the year now, so in the hopes of not ending up on  Krampus’ bad side ( does he have a good side? I wonder ) I am writing to him to plead my case- that maybe I’m not a total Christmas Spoiler and don’t deserve a budle of sticks for Christmas

My first effort is: I heard the worst Christmas Story Today

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Dear Krampus,

She told me a story about her family.

She told me that  she has two nieces and that every year she wishes she could see them for Christmas but she can’t- it’s not like she couldn’t just drive over and say ” ho ho ho ” and give then gift cards to Starbucks.

She just can’t bring herself to, as she put it, ” perform the ritual “.

She told me that one of her nieces was born with  a debilitating disease that ran in her Sister-In- Laws family and had her Sister-in- Law not been selfish and wanted a baby, her niece wouldn’t have to have such a challenging life.

Her other niece, she told me, was as vain and vapid as her Mother and that in her niece’s entire life she had never seen her with a book in her hand.

Her vain and vapid niece was gorgeous though and to prove it she showed me a picture of her niece.  As she gazed down at her phone into  her nieces image, I saw true love.

I got the feeling that in Her mind this image of a you woman making duck lips at the camera made up for her niece’s lack of intellectual curiosity and that spelled out the hint that being  vain and vapid was a trait that ran on both sides of the family.

I told her I had three nieces and that they were all finding their way in the world- including my niece with Autism and they were doing their best to find their way through the world.

She winked at me and said, ” of course they are “.

I wanted to reach out and jab my finger into her stupid overly made up eye.

That year like every year I see my nieces at Christmas and that sometimes  I see them with books in their hands and sometimes they wear  alot of makeup and sometimes they tell great stories and jokes and other times I wonder how such unique and stunning creatures could be related to me.

I know I am lacking in the Christmas Spirit Krampus, but  on this day I didn’t tear someone’s eye out their head and I told a nice Christmas story about my family,

AMM