Tag Archive 'Santa'

Confession: I am a Grinch

Posted in Gripes, Holidays, Miscellaneous on Dec 22nd, 2009

I nearly told my boys last week that there’s no such thing as Santa. I’m all for using one’s imagination, but I have serious problems with the whole Santa fantasy. You see, I never believed in Santa as a child. He was just an imaginary figure who represented Christmas, similar to The Easter Bunny being [...]

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The conclusions kids draw . . .

Posted in Eye-openers on Nov 12th, 2008

Today Cody saw a picture of Santa. “Is Santa wearing a costume?” he asked me. “Yes,” I said. “Then Santa’s a FAKE,” he spit. “Why do you say that?” I said, startled by this conclusion. “Because we only wear costumes on Halloween. That means that Santa isn’t real if he wears a costume.” Nothing I [...]

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