If you’re looking for a normal Christmas tradition idea, you won’t find it here. In fact, you probably won’t find anything remotely normal here. Fun, funny, weird, maybe, but not normal.
This is Where’s Waldo Santa.
I made him years ago, before kids and after sanity. Some friends and I made up a bunch of different characters out of shotgun shells: Elvis, ZZ Top, Tammy Faye Baker…the sky was the limit. Some how, only Waldo made it to my house and has been hiding ever since.
Why shotgun shells? I wanted a unique Christmas tree that would fit our lodge-style home. I finally settled on Sis’s Jingle bell ~ Shotgun Shell Christmas. Sick isn’t it? But the colors were right and Aunt Kate loved the idea. I’ll never forget what she said (with a fresh one hanging from her lip), “Ha ha ha, Kid! You can have it for the first year, but after that, it’s free game.” That year she gifted me a whole box of jingle bells and shotgun shells (with the primers punched out). She even helped me put them up while we listened to Grandma Got Ran Over By a Reindeer. It was a fabulous hillbilly-redneck Christmas.
She gifted our boys these critters that sing, dance and fart all about Christmas. Grrrrrr. But they make a great place to hide Waldo.
Since then I’ve grown up. Well maybe not. The two boys, that give this place it’s unique smell, give us a license to be silly think Where’s Waldo ROCKS! So we play it.
Here’s Waldo hiding in the eye of a buffalo.
Waldo under a turtle shell.
Waldo behind a banjo.
Waldo playing a banjo.
Waldo in the angel’s skirt.
The first Christmas, he was there.
God bless them one and all.
The point to all this is. Have fun with Christmas. If your two or 92. Hide something. A rock, an ornament, a picture, a gift. Start a tradition whether redneck, traditional or otherwise. Live a little.
What are your traditions?
Simply,
Sis
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