Day two of our Advent Calendar brought about a much-loved activity. Today we were to sit down and write letters to Santa!
I know that writing to tell someone what you want as a gift is just adding to the consumerism of Christmas, but hey. It’s Santa. He has elf labour, that’s not consumerism right? Err. Anyway!
I always tell the kids they can ask Santa for ONE gift and then they also get stockings from Santa so there’s no need to go bananas and list 25 things. With a bit of harrrumphing over the reminder of this rule, the kids sat at the coffee table and got started.
Of course Breanna can’t write whole sentences yet, so she dictated her letter to me and I dutifully wrote it out, smiling to myself at times – especially when she promised to be “super-good for Christmas”. That’s mostly in the hopes of getting the gift she wants, I think.
She did sign her own letter though.
I’m very proud of Hayley’s writing; she writes stories regularly in a notebook so naturally she’s got the whole write-to-Santa thing under control. It’s a bit bittersweet though since I remember when I used to have to write her letters too. Sigh.
My favorite part of her letter was when she asked how Rudolph was and then explained she was asking because she’s learning to play “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” in her guitar lessons.
I hope Santa doesn’t wake her up on Christmas Eve to hear her play it.
They both added a drawing to their letters as well.
Hayley and Breanna are both requesting the same gift from Santa which makes it very easy for the elves involved in packaging. They both want the Go Go My Walking Pup thing. I guess it’s because although they have a dog of their own – a real live dog! – she’s too big and strong for either of them to walk her. That’s okay. I just hope they remember not to leave their toy dogs alone with their real dog lest we end up with an unfortunate crime scene.
We’ll mail the letters tomorrow so that we can hopefully get the replies back before Christmas.
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In other news, this morning I poured my coffee into my camera lens. My very expensive 24-105mm lens. Horrors!
Okay, so it’s not a real 24-105mm lens. Considering I priced one for fun at almost $1600. This lens mug only cost me $25 plus shipping from Photojojo. I love it! It’s very realistic and appeals to my goofy dork self.
Also, Photojojo apparently includes a random tiny dinosaur figure in all of their shipments just for fun. I can’t even explain why this makes me giddy, it just does.
Alas, that coffee was many hours ago and bed beckons.
Okay, that mug is just so damn awesome that I just went to Photojojo and ordered myself one. 😀
I received the mug as a gift and it’s awesome! Elias loved the dinosaur, but I have no idea where it is now… somewhere out in the yard, I think.
Whew – I was afraid you’d gone off the deep end. with that camera lens. Thank goodness it was a mug.
I loved the letters to Santa.
That’s such a cool mug. The dollar to Indian rupee rate might me too much for me to spend on a coffee mug but I still want to get one. I bet your coffees served in it are ‘snappy’.