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Speechless Sunday: When I Still Believed!

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There is a hint here that I probably wasn't looking up to check out the fireplace damper.  I'm thinking stockings are hung and still empty, And I am - oh my God!  I'm waiting for Santa to come down the chimney and emerge, all sooty, into our living room!  

I was about three when my father took this photo of my brother, Jack, and I.  It was a time when we were so sweet and innocent, and we really knew that Santa was going to come down that chimney - although my parents explained that the jolly guy wouldn't show up until we were fast asleep!  

Life is a lot simpler when you're at the phase where you can believe in Santa Clause!  

 

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Patricia Kennedy
RLAH@properties - Washington, DC
Home in the Capital

James, maybe you should avoid my posts over Christmas!  Wouldn't was to complicate your life!

Dec 26, 2016 12:09 PM
Patricia Kennedy
RLAH@properties - Washington, DC
Home in the Capital

Brian, getting sooty would have been incredibly cool at that moment!  

Dec 26, 2016 12:10 PM
Patricia Kennedy
RLAH@properties - Washington, DC
Home in the Capital

Nina, this is the only house we lived in while I was growing up that did, in fact, have a fireplace.  It was after we moved out that the Santa thing got complicated!

Dec 26, 2016 12:11 PM
Patricia Kennedy
RLAH@properties - Washington, DC
Home in the Capital

Sheila, life was so simple, and we were too simple to understand or appreciate it!

Dec 26, 2016 12:12 PM
Patricia Kennedy
RLAH@properties - Washington, DC
Home in the Capital

Will, well, I'm pretty patient when I have to be!

Dec 26, 2016 12:12 PM
Joe Pryor
The Virtual Real Estate Team - Oklahoma City, OK
REALTOR® - Oklahoma Investment Properties

My thoughts always go to my departed parents at this time of year and how wonderful they made Christmas for me as a child.

Dec 26, 2016 12:44 PM
Patricia Kennedy
RLAH@properties - Washington, DC
Home in the Capital

Joe, me, too.  They also made it great when we were adults!  I miss mine a whole lot.  

Dec 26, 2016 01:46 PM
Myrl Jeffcoat
Sacramento, CA
Greater Sacramento Realtor - Retired

I believed, but spent my entire childhood looking for the "real" Santa Claus.  

Dec 26, 2016 04:07 PM
Dick Greenberg
New Paradigm Partners LLC - Fort Collins, CO
Northern Colorado Residential Real Estate

Hi Pat - What a wonderful photo! I remember my brother and I worried sick because we didn't have a fireplace for Santa to use.

Dec 26, 2016 04:32 PM
Patricia Kennedy
RLAH@properties - Washington, DC
Home in the Capital

Myrl, I'm not sure which is better!

Dec 26, 2016 08:10 PM
Patricia Kennedy
RLAH@properties - Washington, DC
Home in the Capital

Dick, when we moved out of this house to a fireplace-less place, it raised some serious questions!  I found a bunch of great pictures taken in that house.

Dec 26, 2016 08:12 PM
Margaret Rome Baltimore 410-530-2400
HomeRome Realty 410-530-2400 - Pikesville, MD
Sell Your Home With Margaret Rome

What a perfectly priceless memory! Thank you for sharing.

Dec 26, 2016 09:03 PM
Patricia Kennedy
RLAH@properties - Washington, DC
Home in the Capital

Margaret, it's so much fun to find new batches of old family photos.  

Dec 26, 2016 09:33 PM
Joan Cox
House to Home, Inc. - Denver Real Estate - 720-231-6373 - Denver, CO
Denver Real Estate - Selling One Home at a Time

Pat, what a cute photo, and such innocence with you and your brother.  To have those days back.....

Dec 27, 2016 06:52 AM
Debb Janes
Nature As Neighbors - Camas, WA
Put My Love of Nature At Work for You

What a wonderful, wonderful, photo Pat. You are both adorable. FYI, I still believe. ;) Hope you had a delightful weekend. D

Dec 27, 2016 09:02 AM
Patricia Feager, MBA, CRS, GRI,MRP
DFW FINE PROPERTIES - Flower Mound, TX
Selling Homes Changing Lives

Patricia Kennedy - I'm with Dick Greenberg! I was a frantic child because my parents didn't have a fireplace! There was one Christmas when none of us got presents and I thought if we died we'd all go straight to hell because Santa thought we were all naughty. I didn't learn until later that Santa left all our toys in the car and it was broken into before he could make the delivery.  But I digress, back to your photo story.

I think that is a great photograph and your father was very talented! I could just imagine how exciting it must have been to be the big sister in your house waiting patiently for Santa to come down that chimney. Your baby brother leans in, he's listening to you, waiting for you to tell him with excitement that Santa is coming down the chimney! 

Both of you have hair that shines in the light of the camera! The few things on top the mantle tell me it was a simpler life. Oh, how we yearn for those simpler days and time again with our parents as we get older....

I may be late, but I'm a believer is keeping Christmas alive. Therefore, Merry Christmas, Pat and a Happy New Year too!

Dec 27, 2016 09:58 AM
Patricia Kennedy
RLAH@properties - Washington, DC
Home in the Capital

Joan,  this was taken when my brother still had a little spiral curl on the top of his head - so cute!

Dec 27, 2016 03:08 PM
Patricia Kennedy
RLAH@properties - Washington, DC
Home in the Capital

Patricia, we kept Christmas alive long after we moved into a fireplace-less house and realized that we shouldn't take the Santa story quite so literally.  That was the year we decided that my father was Santa Clause!

Dec 27, 2016 03:11 PM
Lou Ludwig
Ludwig & Associates - Boca Raton, FL
Designations Earned CRB, CRS, CIPS, GRI, SRES, TRC

Patrica

I believe in the spirit of Christmas is in our heart.

Good luck and success.

Lou Ludwig

Dec 27, 2016 08:09 PM
Lou Ludwig
Ludwig & Associates - Boca Raton, FL
Designations Earned CRB, CRS, CIPS, GRI, SRES, TRC

Patrica

Congratulations on the feature for your post.

Good luck and success.

Lou Ludwig

Dec 27, 2016 08:11 PM
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