Yesterday Blair posted about a conversation at her house regarding Santa and his existence. I thought I’d share a quick story about the discussion with my crew, ages 5 and 8.
Each year the magic gets trickier to maintain and I have a tendency to over-complicate things. I don’t mean to, I just have trouble wording things in a simple manner. (have you noticed?) Anyway, when my oldest asked “What does Santa have to do with the birth of Jesus” I lost my head. I went into some rambling stupor and almost blew Santa’s cover. My husband was there and, once I realized we were heading for a train wreck, we steered the whole thing back on track. Needless to say, I thought I had done irreparable damage to the Santa illusion….
Until the next night…I was in the kitchen making dinner and the boys were playing in the family room. Now, imagine the noise frozen corn makes when you pour it into a glass measuring cup. Both boys stopped what they were doing, sat up straight and looked at each other. “Bells! Mom, I think we heard Christmas bells!”
Oh yeah, we still believe. That was a close one…
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lol……cute
My nephews showed us this book while we were visiting. They are 6 and 4.5 and this book seems to settle things for them:
How Santa Really Works. When I found out, my mom explained that Santa was really “the spirit of giving” so he always existed. I like to think of it that way still.
So interesting, so glad the frozen corn made a good test of faith 🙂 Loved reading Blair’s entry too…oh, the dilemmas!
One of the old Christmas cartoons says that St. Nick picked the holiest night of the year to deliver toys and goodwill. Sounds reasonable.
Good job mom!
We tell how Santa gives out presents to celebrate Jesus’ birthday. That way we can tie the two in together. 😉
My little one is almost 10 months old so we haven’t had conversations like this year 😉 but when we do, I have a book that I think will help. It’s called “God Gave Us Christmas” by: Lisa T. Bergren and it does a great job of bringing the two together.
Whatever you decide, have a very Merry Christmas!
Oh, and thanks for the link!
another good Santa story. I remember that by the time I didn’t believe anymore, I wasn’t too upset, probably because I was old enough to understand that it was all just a really sweet thing your parents did (and, of course, they kept on leaving gifts from “santa” long after I knew.
I agree with Blair…my oldest daughter is 11, and even though she ‘knows’ about Santa, she still gets wrapped up in the magic!
We spend Christmas Eve celebrating the story of Jesus, and Christmas Day doing gift stuff.
I love this time of year!
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Oh, how sweet! My girls still believe and I just love watching their eyes light up during those special moments of magic. I’m thinking this may be our last year so I’m trying to treasure every moment.
Happy Holidays!