I lost my faith in Santa when I was in kindergarten. Santa came to visit us, and the horrible truth was whispered among us - "Santa came in a car!"
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Spike's Bitches 38: Well, This Is Just...Neat.
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tommyrot - Nov 30, 2007 5:00:11 am PST #6589 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Laura - Nov 30, 2007 5:02:25 am PST #6590 of 10002
Our wings are not tired.
Happy Emeline Day! And congrats to mommy and daddy.
Santa exists in Laura's house. We have discussed this before! There will be no dissing of the Santa! The boys in my house know that they dare not speak of the possibility of Santa being anything but real. Santa exists. They will mess with me occasionally to get the Evil Mom Glare. But being fans of finding presents under the tree they always confess their true belief.
{{Emmett & parental units}}
tommyrot - Nov 30, 2007 5:07:42 am PST #6591 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Part of my difficulty with Santa before I lost my faith was that we had no fireplace, so if Santa came down the chimney he'd end up in the furnace. So my parents told us he'd find some other way in. So then I was thinking about that - maybe Santa could make himself (and his bag of presents) real super skinny so he could slip between the cracks in the doors. But then that was almost too much magic to believe in.
Emily - Nov 30, 2007 5:08:43 am PST #6592 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Did anyone else watch the Hogswatch movie?
Jars - Nov 30, 2007 5:19:48 am PST #6593 of 10002
Family lore goes that I told my older sister that there was no Santa and she was 'a stupid' for believing in him on Christmas morning when I was six. I don't remember it, though.
Happy birthday Emeline!
hippocampus - Nov 30, 2007 5:33:31 am PST #6594 of 10002
not your mom's socks.
NoiseDesign - Nov 30, 2007 5:37:40 am PST #6595 of 10002
Our wings are not tired
Happy Birthday Emeline.
Miracleman - Nov 30, 2007 5:38:53 am PST #6596 of 10002
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
But he kind of killed me when he said, "It was just nice believing that there was somebody as good as Santa in the world. It was just nice to believe that."
Tell him there is: Him.
Or Superman.
What? Superman is real dammit!
Ginger - Nov 30, 2007 5:43:49 am PST #6597 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
But he kind of killed me when he said, "It was just nice believing that there was somebody as good as Santa in the world. It was just nice to believe that."
"Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. ... Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
"You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding."
DavidS - Nov 30, 2007 5:50:43 am PST #6598 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Happy birthday, pretty Emeline!
Emmett's okay this morning. We talked about it a lot last night. JZ explained that there really was a St. Nicklas who did good deeds and Emmett decided that it was a good way to show respect to St. Nick and the idea of giving. That's what I came back around to, just that Santa Claus is the idea of Christmas.
And we talked about why parents do it, and he got it when he thought about Matilda getting excited for Santa and presents. And I think he's looking forward to making Christmas fun for her.