For all of you raised in Romania, i believe you all remember our awesome celebration called: Mos Niculae!! (I know Marius is saying.....that's bogus, nobody celebrated that!!). But we did...and some of my fondest memories revolve around that celebration. I was blessed with the best parents ever.....never once did they miss a opportunity to shower us with gifts...it wasn't hard in Romania because they always had the means...but both my dad and mom always made sure their kids knew how much they were loved and thought of each and every single day. My brother and I would diligently clean out boots the night of the 5th of Dec. We made sure we put the biggest pair of boots we had in the huge window at the kitchen balcony. I even remember to this day the opening mechanism of those old Romanian windows....We would then go to sleep and for some reason never once doubted that we haven't been good enough to get our parents from "Mos Niculae". The best part was when the 6th fell on a school day (back during the communist that wasn't hard because 6 out of 7 times it would fall on a school day...hahahahaha!!!). But going to school and discovering what everyone got in their boots was AMAZING. And I remember how everyone...no matter what grade we were in...EVERYONE kept the "parents" out of the equation. I'm sure not all kids in my class and Claudiu's class were as naive as me and him...but NOBODY...NOBODY ever mentioned that...hey guys, you do now your parents put all those goodies in your boots, right?! Christmas had a more real appeal that way.....
So for old times sakes....drop a little something into someone's boots on the 5th of December, so when they get up on the 6th...they will smile and have a better Monday!!!!
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