Christmas? Already?

I know, I know, but I am in the process of designing holiday cards and invitations for work so I have to try to “get into the spirit”. I’m listening to Harry Connick sing Christmas songs, I’m already freezing in my office, I’ve pulled out my snowman and plopped him on my desk and then I found these sweet pictures from 2006. I will sorely miss the trek to the Green Hills Mall (usually at lunch on a weekday to avoid the long lines) to see Santa. Ryan is 10 now and well….we had “the talk”. NO! Not that talk. The talk about you know, Diet Dr. Pepper really being a diet drink…I mean…about Santa not really being the dude who forks out all the cash for his Christmas presents. He said he had a feeling he wasn’t the one paying for all those video games. He said that the writing on the packages kinda gave it away. Excuse me?! I purposely wrote those out with my left hand to make it look legit! Fo real! And then he said last year that I knew he shouldn’t open the amp before he got the guitar, that I knew what present was what. Busted. I’m still going to make him set out a Coke for Santa and water and carrots for the reindeer (I always loved that he thought of the reindeer). Oh and the cookies we decorated for Santa – those were the best. Sigh. The ONLY good thing will be that I don’t have to sneak around so quietly Christmas Eve setting out the presents. I always feared he would wake up and catch me in the act. He never did. Oh I’ll still wait until he goes to sleep, but it just won’t be the same.

Ok Chris you encouraged me to write more in my blogs and now I’m all teary…