If you celebrate Christmas what was the weirdest thing a parent did to keep the magic alive?

Posted by Itsmeladyt79@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 63 comments

When I think back I’m very lucky to have wonderful memories of childhood Christmas’s. The weirdest of those memories is every year my mum used to take me to the local butchers where a old man (Eric) who was always sat in the corner of the butchers chatting to everyone coming and going and was incredibly tall, not because I was little, Tall, he was tall tall to deliver my letter to Father Christmas because Eric was one of his Elves. I was so excited that I knew an Elf and saw him on the regular in the butchers of course. My mum has passed away 20 odd years ago, I wish I could tell her how important that memory is but it always makes me giggle. I wonder how/why she picked Eric. Merry Christmas everyone.