The Man in Red

SIX SLEEPS!    There are just six sleeps until children around the world start waking up their parents at unpleasant times of the night, or if you’re lucky, frightfully early times of the morning.

Master Four is determined to catch the man in red landing on our roof this year. I’m not sure his stamina will allow for such a sighting and I shall be thankful of this.

Coincidentally, I have it on good authority that after Miss 6’s uncharacteristic night time wandering last year that this year’s presents won’t be arriving until Santa is quite sure that the children are in deep R.E.M. sleep. He won’t be having any surprises foiled by wandering children this year! 

Miss Six already smells a rat in the ranks after the local Children’s Centre Christmas party anyway. We need to be extra careful with this child now, she's duly suspicious! 

 After meeting Father Christmas, who arrived on a motorbike only minutes after the children had sighted a much skinnier man in red wearing no helmet, hat or beard on a bike similar, she did turn to Nan and say, ‘Santa smells like Uncle Marc’. Then, after sitting on his lap and enduring an amusing sham Santa voice, she suspiciously remarked, ‘Santa sounds like Uncle Marc too’.

 It’s not to say she wasn't fond of this man in red, I mean who wouldn't like a Father Christmas who smells of ham and fritz?

Lucky for us, I've had plenty of practice making up cover stories from my rebellious high school days, and the magic is still alive in Miss Six. I’m happy to say she is still a believer.  However, I’m not sure how Santa fared with the kindy staff after that visit though; gossip has it that they may have put him on their naughty list!

I guess when people talk about the magic of Christmas they could be talking about random acts of kindness, small gestures of giving that mean the world to another, or something like this. For us, it’s keeping the excitement and joy of believing alive in our child for at least another year. Another, sweet, magical year.

 Have a merry and safe Christmas everyone!