Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories - December 6 - Santa Claus
Alex and Deborah at NCDC Christmas Party c1968 Thomas MacEntee says: Today is the Feast of Saint Nicholas and the origin of Santa Claus. What are your memories of Santa Claus and waiting for him to come at Christmas? What does Santa mean to you today and how do you pass along that meaning to family and to others? Ah the excitement of Christmas! Waiting for Santa. Wishing you could go to sleep but being too excited to do so. The photo above is of me and my friend Deborah at the NCDC Christmas party in Canberra in about 1968. Our fathers worked for the NCDC at the time - now called the National Capital Authority . I'm the one with my back to the camera on the left. My hair is in a pony tail and I am wearing long sleeved viyella print dress. Deborah is just behind me with her hair in pigtails facing the camera and looking at our parent's friend Joan and baby Tamara, I think. The best Christmases were when Deborah and her family wou...