ITEM SANTA — Sometimes I think that I had it bad growing up — then, when I sit back and really start pondering the possibility, I remember Kevin McCallister was only eight years old when his parents left him “home alone” on Christmas.
A true cold-hearted bummer like that can be pretty hard to top these days, especially when the news is crammed so full of things like Donald Trump’s new haircut and the “drones” drifting over the skies of New Jersey… Indeed, it feels like during the Christmas chaos there is often little to think about besides bank accounts and bad snow storms brewing overhead.
Where did the fun go? That incredible, impenetrable sense of wonder?
Nothing sobers the wonderful magic of childhood like the mundane monotony of adulthood. In hindsight, I really wish somebody would have given me the decency of a heads-up at some point.
But while time sneers at me from across the room, a bigger lesson starts to come to mind—that inescapable notion of passing along that crucial sense of childhood wonder to someone else, to someone that needs it more now.
Take this mother of one, for example. In her letter to Item Santa, she expressed her critical desire to pass along Christmas cheer to her daughter, who is her source of hope.
She currently lives in Bridgewell Women’s Housing due to a struggle with drugs, and is trying her absolute best to follow the right path and be home with her daughter as soon as she can. She asks that Santa help bring an amazing morning of gifts and love for her daughter, who deserves a proper celebration of Christmas-time magic.
