as I was finishing up my Christmas wrapping tonite I was contemplating Santa.
we are a passive Santa Claus family. we believe but don’t believe.
we celebrate Jesus’ birth as the true reason for the season. that is our focus during this holiday but let the kids have their fun with Santa.
as I child I don’t ever remember believing in Santa, I remember pretending to believe for my siblings but I never really remember believing. my parents let us have fun with it, we had some presents under the tree from Santa but there was always a little roll of the eyes from my Dad when Santa was mentioned 🙂
when our kids were littler we didn’t really say either way, we rode the wave of Santa. we put out cookies if they wanted to put out cookies, wrote letters if they wanted to write.
no Santa tales or untales. much like the tooth fairy & the easter bunny. all in good fun but no ones heart is broken when the tooth fairy forgets for a night or two (or a week) to put the money under the pillow. its a wink wink, nudge nudge bit of childhood fun.
so tonite as I finished wrapping the presents, good old Saint Nick did get some credit for some of the presents. but not all of them & certainly not the good ones.
