Ho, Ho, Ho! I'm sitting here eating my chocolate chip cookies, drinking milk, and munching on celery (for Rudolph and his buddies). It is a huge blast being Santa, especially since I suspect this is the last year my oldest will believe in the jolly old elf... we all spent the better part of the evening tracking the sled via NORAD and making cookies and luminarias. My oldest went to bed at 9:00 but because she was so excited, she did not get to sleep (even though she was trying hard) until 10:15 or so. After that, I put on my Santa hat and di my duty. I do love arranging the presents and doing the stockings. This is as much (maybe more) of a kick as waiting for Santa when you're a kid. I'm so damn giggly, I had to check in here to calm down so I can sleep a few hours before the Great Awakening. Kudos to all the parents working late tonight. Everyone have a great day tomorrow. Merry Christmas!
OH ****!!!!!!!!! OH ****!!!!! TERRORIST ALERT!!! CODE RED SEVERE WARNING!!!!! Santa's attacking Seattle!!!! Dude, this is gay, and I mean that. It NEVER gets old. I'm not bitter; being Jewish has nothing to do with it.
Am I the only one here that sees himself having a hard time being a parent around X-Mas time? I'm 19 and don't plan on having kids anytime soon and I love getting presents at Christmas and loved getting toys as a kid, but people waste so much money on buying their kids random ****. After two weeks, the kids will be bored with the toys and wont play with them at all other than when they have absolutely nothing else to do. The thing I like about being older is that I get a lot of clothes and other things more useful for X-Mas... I feel like i'm going to grow up to be a bitter old man and if I have kids that they will hate me....haha
If I ever birth some kids I don't think i'll lie to them about santa. I'm sure they'll be just as stoked to get presents as other kids.
yes but you will get many angry phone calls from very angry parents demanding why little Johnny now knows Santa is fake because of your child.
Why in the world would you not want your kids to know about Santa when they're little? Keeping their imagination fresh and their creativity growing is a positive thing...not to mention avoiding alienating them from the rest of the kids their age. The only thing that sucks about growing older during Christmas is not getting (er..wanting) the toys anymore....
My step dad once yelled at a woman in a hardware store for telling my 3 year old sister about santa claus. Personally, I'm just going to let the wife deal with all that. If the kids ask me about Santa Claus I will hopefully always keep a bottle of chloroform within my reach.
We are doing the Santa Claus thing with our 2 and 4 YOs. I did it with my 17 and 20 YOS and it is easy to let them down from the little teaching game that is Santa Clause. Anyway, Mrs. Clause took our 4 YO Zoe out on the back deck to throw some oatmeal up on the roof for Santa's reindeer to eat and while out there some kind of small aircraft came into sight. Zoe got all excited that she had seen Santa Clause and she went straight to bed (now that is a Christmas miracle). Mrs. Clause and I were up until 2 AM assembling presents and preparing to serve a family breakfast for nine. This afternoon's nap was wonderful!
