This is the time of year when the little (or not so little in my case) elves come out and build the sets for Santa to come sit and greet children for that all important "PHOTO WITH SANTA".I have been makings Santa's house beautiful for the last 5 years. Sometimes the things I see are painful to look at. I am being constantly visually assaulted by the glory that is holiday. Some days I have to sit down and close my eyes for a few minutes just to regroup.
I really enjoy my work. It is demanding, tight deadlined, overwhelming, exhausting (15 hour days for 20 days), and sometimes just plain horrific. There is climbing, crawling, hanging, heavy equipment, blood, injury, attitude, scrooge, illness, hunger, pain... All it takes is for one of the children to come up and be in awe that you are getting Santa's house ready and it all is perfect!
For that reason, (and the $) I come back year after year and make things better than they were the year before. Children are the future. The small hopes and dreams of childhood are few and for many are not even nonexistent. The dream of Santa lives in the heart of many and is a beautiful part of childhood.
For many the holiday is commercial, but there is a rise in a more simple holiday. One filled with family, friends and for some faith. The idea that crosses over many people, even those who don't have religion in there lives, is that baby in a manger.
Again, it is the children that make us believe. For them, we believe, we love, we have to rise above.
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