Today is St. Nicholas Day in the Netherlands. Whereas children in North America put out cookies and milk for Santa on Christmas Eve, children in Holland when I was young, used to put hay, apples and carrots in their wooden shoes for St. Nicholas' horse on St. Nicholas Eve. Then if they'd been good, they would find the hay and apples gone in the morning, and replaced by some small gifts and treats. My kids wanted to see if St. Nicholas would come visit them on this side of the ocean too. So they took their wooden shoes outside to find some hay. Efreet brought over a big pile....
They started stuffing the hay into the shoes.....
Ringo couldn't help but notice that Elin had WAY bigger wooden shoes than he did....
" No fair, you have such a big shoe! You're going to get WAY more presents than me!"
"No I'm not! These are my Daddy's shoes. I'm stuffing them for him, so he'll get a treat too."
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