Merry Christmas....
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| My Pittlets 2012 Claire, Samuel, Caroline, Lauren and Lily |
I have realized that I am a liar, Christmas has made me a liar. I have lied about so many things. First off is Elfie, then there is the mall Santa, the north pole Santa, the tooth fairy that has failed to show for the second night in a row, then there are my favorites, the Christmas Present lies. "Yes, you are getting Barbies for Christmas" ("mom, you said I was getting barbies"..."I lied"), "You are not getting an Iphone" ("mommy, I love my Iphone"), "This is the first year where we didn't buy any video games!" ("cool, I was hoping I would get these!").
This morning came the "morning after" lies. These questions were asked in a sweet voice, kinda nervous as her belief system was in question. "Santa put the same socks in our stockings that you bought my friends" (darn $2 sale, I bought tons!) "I thought you said you bought Lauren and Lily the cow and lion Beanie Boos, but Santa put them in their stockings" (clearly, I talk to my kids too much) "Sam got an Itunes card in his stocking" (puzzled expression as she reads my texts all the time and saw where Ben told me to get one) "I have beef jerky in my stocking, strange" (Strange?! We are in the south! What if Mayans were right and the world ended and all you had was that stocking, that jerky is all that is between you and starvation...plus my kids are addicted to jerky, I buy it in quantity where ever I go;) "Did you put the candy canes out or did Santa bring those?" (I have a specific candy cane, they are the small vintage style that I buy every year) "Lauren got a Dora, Lily got a barbie castle, I got nothing" (yep, I caved, I made Ben go out at 11:30 last night and get the Barbie castle out of the car).
Now here comes the lies, "Santa and I made an agreement, I could add what I wanted to the stockings, you know I don't like for y'all to have a lot of sugar, so I put in the beanies, socks, jerky, itunes card"...."Santa stole the candy canes, he must have been out"...."the castle is for all three of you (how did I forget to get Caroline something?!!)"...so all is well, her belief is intact, the lies can stop, I can go to confession, back to normal. I go into my office to get the trash bag, underneath the bag is....CAROLINES SANTA PRESENT TYE-DYE PILLOW PET BEAR!!! Number 15 on her Christmas List!!! Because I am not a very good liar, I immediately tell Caroline to check to see if I turned the dryer on, I grabbed the bag, pulled out the pillow pet, tossed it onto the ceramic stools under the sofa table, run into the kitchen and pretended to load the dishwasher. Caroline walks through, shrieks and grabs the bear and her questions begin, how, what, why, where, when, did you do it? why did he put it there?....the circle of lies begins again, "someone must have come down last night when Santa was unloading the presents, trying to catch him. He had to hurry and leave, must have tossed the bear on his way out before he was caught!"....well it worked, a few minutes later Caroline yelled from upstairs, "IT WAS LILY!! SHE SAID SHE WENT DOWNSTAIRS AND SAW SANTA! THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED!!".....Merry Christmas to all, and isn't it indeed MERRY?!! No matter what is going on in your world, there is something to be merry about, Jesus was given to us on this day, the best gift of all! Merry Christmas from the Pittlets!!!
Lauren, Claire and Lily
