12 Days of Christmas: He's Everywhere

Yes, I know the 12 days of Christmas historically take place between Christmas and epiphany, but I'm taking my journey now with a small challenge:  post every day for 12 days which leads me up to the 22nd.  The weekend of Thanksgiving we hauled out the boxes and began decorating. I collected Santas for many years.  Each year the jolly old elves take up residence in a different area of the house.  This year it's the mantle.
 Oh yes, Santa is making appearances all around the house.  He's everywhere!

He's a tin ornament, and one of my favorites, on the tree.

He's peeking from behind greens, waiting in the snow for a glimpse of the naughty and nice.

He's driving his sleigh on to a vintage wrapping paper.

He's dressed all in green with a half-moon vibe and a favorite of my daughter. 

"He had a broad face and a little round belly.  That shook when he laughed like a bowl full of jelly." 
       ~Clement C. Moore

The favorite of a son, the roly-poly Santa never failed to make us all chuckle.

On Christmas Eve, a brown-eyed boy will place cookies on the Santa bedecked plate, anxious for morning

"Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus."  
                           ~ Written in the Sun Times by Francis Church in 1897