what is your family's funniest Christmas story?

**many houseapes** · 12-14-2005, 11:48 PM

My mother-in-law told me a funny story about when my dh and his siblings were little and were waiting for Santa to show up on Christmas Eve..........it was very late and little Johnny and his many siblings were still awake waiting to get a peek at Santa Claus....their uncle( my mother-in-law's brother) came to the house, and amused by his many nephews & nieces eagerness, exclaimed ....." say Jan,...I thought that I coulda sworn that I saw a crazy fat old man dancing around in his red underwear on your roof......yep....looked like that crazy fella had a buncha cows up there with him too!" the children's mouths were wide open with amazement by this time

.....uncle went on...." yep, thought that fella was really crazy to be up there with his cows and dancing around in his red underwear...didn't know what else he was gonna do...he musta been drunk to be actin' so crazy....so......I shot him...and I think that I got one of his cows too!".....All of the children cried out "you shot Santa Claus!"....But another look on uncle's face told them differently..that he was just kidding.

**Early Bird** · 12-15-2005, 10:20 AM

Not as funny as yours, but it made us laugh:

Christmas 2000 -- DD#1 was 6; DD#2 was 4

Mom wanted to get the kids into the true spirit of Christmas. She asked, “What present do you think Baby Jesus would want?” DD#@ answered, “He would like TOOLS!”

On Christmas Eve, DD#1 told her parents what treats to leave out, “We should leave Santa Clause 1 cookie and 1 cupcake and 1 candy AND A BEER.”

**Scattymum** · 12-15-2005, 11:05 AM

funny story many houseapes and earlybird

we played a trick last year on Ciara, we got up early and when we heard ciara coming down the stairs DH started banging around and shouting *I got him, I got him*, when Ciara walked into the room DH was on his knees with his hand up the fireplace and he pulled down a boot...Ciara really thought that she has just missed santa and she wasnt happy that Daddy had stolen his boot

**dina** · 12-15-2005, 05:00 PM

When I was a very little girl my brother told me Santa wouldn't come if I didn't go to sleep. Then he went out on the roof outside my bedroom window with a flashlight with red celephane over the light (for rudlophs nose) and a set of jingle bells.

This wasn't family, but years ago I was teaching the song The Friendly Beasts to a group of Sunday School children. When I asked what they thought the donkey might say if he could talk a little boy said "I'm tired!"

**pammy** · 12-15-2005, 05:39 PM

Christmas 1994. Dd was 4 and was her usual opinionated self. She couldn't wait for Santa to show up, so my ex's great uncle, C.L., was gonna be santa to her and the only other little one, my nephew, who was 2 at the time. Santa showed up, things were going pretty good. It came time for dd to sit on Santas lap and tell him what she wanted, and he'd give her presents. She sat on his lap and all he got out was 'So what's your name, cutie?'. Dd, bless her heart, blurted out 'You're C.L.!!" forever dashing, along with young nephew, of the mystery of Santa. Santa Claus WAS C.L.! lol We caught it on tape, thank goodness.

**slowtypinwoman** · 12-15-2005, 05:58 PM

Christmas late 1980's
We all wrnt over to my Ds house. She and her Dh had just purchased it. We were all starving. About 8 Heidi thought the turkey should be done. she went in to chck on it and found she hadn't turned the oven on! lol We still razz her about it.
I think we FINALLY ate around 11 that night.

**pkellyc** · 12-16-2005, 02:23 PM

My dd named Jamie was thought to be a boy when starting her Kindergarden class and was seated at the boys table. When Christmas came around I thought it would be fun to buy my girls remote controlled cars as gifts. She did not! On Christmas morning it was one of the first gifts she opened exclaiming "Oh no! Santa thinks I am a boy too!"