while i know not everyone will agree with our choices, they are the ones we have made for our family....YES, we do santa here in our little family. now, my kids fully understand the reason we celebrate christmas and talk about Jesus all the time. in fact, when a toddler, mapboy had quite the fascination with hiding baby Jesus all over our house and lining the remaining nativity figures up in line to bow down. it was comical...
...but i've digressed...back to santa. several years ago - like about 6, we were driving home from indy on christmas eve. my mom was with us and i was sharing with hubby how i always thought the blinking red lights in the sky were rudolph and that my siblings played along (we always drove home from grandmas on christmas eve). for some reason hubby found it hysterical that i believed that. however, he got to talking with my mom and concocted a plan that involved melting tootsie rolls just a tad and then dropping pieces of them all over our porch roof. so that night, hubby was on the porch roof with melted tootsie rolls and tube of wrapping paper folded to look like deer prints. geesh...but the kids fell for it!
the next couple of years found us leaving notes for santa and him writing back. there was the year we forgot to leave the cookies out and the elves rummaged through our cabinets leaving quite a mess and letter of sadness. last year, princess wrote that she was good and stuck it to our fireplace. i guess she wasn't sure if he knew that.
so, typically our kids don't ask for much from Santa which results in that one santa gift they are excited about. but as this year approached i really thought that mapbooy would have figured the whole thing out. i mean we don't talk about it all the time...but at thanksgiving he was arguing with his cousin that santa really is real. oh boy...
so santa continues this year - that is until princess tells us of her santa request - ice skates and an ice skating outfit. doing my best to change her mind, she has remained insistant on ice skates! well, this is one momma that is not going to spend money on ice skates that we can't use! so after searching thrift stores with no luck we needed to come up with a solution.
hubby is such a softie for his baby girl - i mean last year after me convincing her santa only has so many american girl dolls to give away and she already had one, santa still brought the beloved doll. so we pull into target because now we are going to buy new ones. no ice skates. in fact the lady we asked look at us like we were nuts! so we wandered the clothing aisle looking for an ice skating outfit. on the clearance rack was a wonderful pink leotard with a skirt attached. we found some glittery tights and then hubby insisted on picking up the ballet shoes...so now we are in a pickle...i'm thinking we leave a note explaining that santa didn't make ice skates this year, but knew how much she loved dancing?
or this may just be the year that the figure out the santa thing?
...but i've digressed...back to santa. several years ago - like about 6, we were driving home from indy on christmas eve. my mom was with us and i was sharing with hubby how i always thought the blinking red lights in the sky were rudolph and that my siblings played along (we always drove home from grandmas on christmas eve). for some reason hubby found it hysterical that i believed that. however, he got to talking with my mom and concocted a plan that involved melting tootsie rolls just a tad and then dropping pieces of them all over our porch roof. so that night, hubby was on the porch roof with melted tootsie rolls and tube of wrapping paper folded to look like deer prints. geesh...but the kids fell for it!
the next couple of years found us leaving notes for santa and him writing back. there was the year we forgot to leave the cookies out and the elves rummaged through our cabinets leaving quite a mess and letter of sadness. last year, princess wrote that she was good and stuck it to our fireplace. i guess she wasn't sure if he knew that.
so, typically our kids don't ask for much from Santa which results in that one santa gift they are excited about. but as this year approached i really thought that mapbooy would have figured the whole thing out. i mean we don't talk about it all the time...but at thanksgiving he was arguing with his cousin that santa really is real. oh boy...
so santa continues this year - that is until princess tells us of her santa request - ice skates and an ice skating outfit. doing my best to change her mind, she has remained insistant on ice skates! well, this is one momma that is not going to spend money on ice skates that we can't use! so after searching thrift stores with no luck we needed to come up with a solution.
hubby is such a softie for his baby girl - i mean last year after me convincing her santa only has so many american girl dolls to give away and she already had one, santa still brought the beloved doll. so we pull into target because now we are going to buy new ones. no ice skates. in fact the lady we asked look at us like we were nuts! so we wandered the clothing aisle looking for an ice skating outfit. on the clearance rack was a wonderful pink leotard with a skirt attached. we found some glittery tights and then hubby insisted on picking up the ballet shoes...so now we are in a pickle...i'm thinking we leave a note explaining that santa didn't make ice skates this year, but knew how much she loved dancing?
or this may just be the year that the figure out the santa thing?
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