I sometimes feel overwhelmed by how much we promise all the children who are waiting for our pajamas and books.
"Every year, we get a new set of pajamas in which to wait for Santa.
"I go to the police station every day, but they just tell me to be patient and wait," said Patiguli Palachi, whose husband, an electronics repairman, was taken in his pajamas with four other occupants of their courtyard house.
"On Christmas morning, Mary Alice would always bring over her slippers and nightgown so she could wait with the kids at the head of the stairs for the signal to race down in their pajamas to the presents," Margaret Wahlstrom said.
She waits outside with a towel and his pajamas, and he sings in the shower the song about the red dragonfly she has taught him.
Several friends are out and waiting for you, but you're still in pajamas and can't seem to bring yourself to leave the couch.
Adam was standing in the middle of the floor, waiting, his tennis shoes on but still in his pajamas.
When officers from the police department in Niles, a rural town in southeast Michigan, arrived, seven minutes later, Dakotah was waiting outside next to his grandmother, who was in her pajamas and frantically waving her hands.
People in their pajamas lined the streets, and another 4,000 were waiting around the corner for the rally.
If there's nothing we can do to warm up Mother Nature, what's a child to do? Are they the lucky ones who received some of our pajamas and books... or are they still waiting?
