These are your Christmas letters to Santa. Theo you wrote "Dear Santa" all by yourself but you think it says "reindeer Santa".
Mayzie, I just wrote your for you and asked do you want a baby, a baby highchair, a furreal friends kitty cat, etc? Because I already got those for you. But you did a great job coloring :)
Notice at the end of Theo's he told me to write Merry Christmas and Happy Birthday. I also over heard him asking Santa for an Evil Dr. Porkchop, and when he finished he said "please, please, please...in Jesus' name amen". This is funny, but I can see how when we bring Santa into the Christmas mix, the reason for Christmas gets confusing for a 3 1/2 year old. We are working on explaining Christmas to our kids and explaining Santa too.
Anyway, I can't wait to spend Christmas as a family with 4 young kids! What a blessing!
There will be such excitement every year.
I want to start a tradition with our family when the kids are older that will help them realize "its not JUST about the presents. I know the presents are fun for kids and kids do deserve new things, but I want to do something a little more selfless around the holidays. I am thinking about serving dinner on Christmas at a homeless shelter and then going to movie as a family or on a "winter" walk. Just something to take their (and my own mind) minds off of "get, get, get, me, me, me".
We will see how it goes later on down the road. But for now, they are too little to do much but stay home and play with toys and eachother and cuddle with their mom and dad...which is just fine with me!
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