I spent my second Christmas with my Nana and Papa while my mother was in the hospital with the new baby brother. My mother says I didn’t want a baby brother. She was right, I wasn’t ready for someone else taking the attention away from me. I already knew what that felt like as my cousin Timmy was born just a couple of months after me and I had been sharing the spotlight with him ever since. Every time I came to visit Nana and Papa there he was. Timmy is in all of my pictures usually standing right next to me. Sometimes we are holding hands. In most of my holiday pictures I have a big toothy smile on my chubby face except for this year. In a faded black and white photo I am staring at the table where the train is. It is an electric train that goes around a single track but in my baby memory it is the most exciting toy I have ever seen. It whizzes around the track so fast I can barely keep up with it and the sound of the train rattling entrances me. There is only one problem; the train is not for me it is for Timmy. Santa how could you?
My present is a Lady Alexander doll. The doll is exquisitely dressed in a period piece. She is in a box with a see through top so you can look but not touch. No brushing this dolls hair or taking off her clothes to see what she looks like naked.
The next Christmas I start making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for Santa. 
Every Christmas Eve I made a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with a big glass of milk St. Nick, the reindeer got celery and carrot sticks.
On Christmas morning while my brother ran to check out the presents I inspected the plate to make sure the food was gone. I never worried about the sandwich, as I knew if Santa didn’t eat it my dad would. It was the celery and carrots sticks I was concerned about. There was no way my dad would eat those so if they were gone for sure Santa had been there. I even looked in the icebox and then the garbage to make sure mom hadn’t thrown them away. Relieved to find no trace of the veggies I could now go and check out the presents under the tree.
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