Hey Mrs. H.,
We have a big celebration. We have a parish dinner on the Feast of St. Nicholas. The kids put on a wonderful play, always lots of parental involvement with it. With lots of singing!
Then St. Nicholas comes - yes he is dressed in our priest's old vestments and has a crown of sorts like the bishops wear - so he is dressed as a bishop and not Santa. We sing 'All who love Nicholas'- can't remember the name. Then he gives the kids bags of gold coins (chocolate of course
). The adults get the leftover coin bags
Also, we have a big cake with an icon of St. Nicolas drawn on it decorated with the sugar sprinkles and such. In the cake is a quarter, whoever gets the quarter goes to Fr. Frank and then he gives them $5.00. So a good time is had by all!
Last year I got the quarter
