I don't remember how old I was,
but I remember when I stopped believing in Santa.
I found Christmas presents in the car because I was being nosy,
and then when I got them as gifts from Santa I about died.
I've had a lot of mixed feelings about Santa
and what in the world I'm supposed to tell my kids?
I love what a friend told me she did with her kids.
She told them about Santa when they were old enough to understand,
and she continued with the spirit of it.
This is the first year in our four years of raising our kiddos
that they're starting to understand even the idea of Santa.
Jacob is so excited that Santa is going to bring him a present.
He's convinced it's coming in a green wrapped box.
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Children of all ages have a deep desire to believe in a
great, benevolent, and generous gift giver who rewards the good.
Christmas allows the child slumbering in each of our souls
the chance to be reborn every year, awakening a sense of
joy and wonder that even eleven months of doubt,
derision, or discouragement can't snuff out.
All that's required of us is that we believe.
Believe in what?
Believe in whatever means the most to you at this moment.
That Love makes it possible to believe in all things,
especially miracles...
That there is a Santa Claus and you have been
very, very good this year...
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Francis P. Church was a newspaper editor, and in 1897
he wrote a reply to a little girl who was asking if Santa was real
because her friends told her that he wasn't.
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Virginia, your little friends are wrong.
They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age.
They do not believe except what they see.
They think that nothing can be which is
not comprehensible by their little minds.
All minds, Virginia, whether they be [grown-ups] or children's
are little.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.
He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist,
and you know that they abound and give to your life
its highest beauty and joy.
Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus!
It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias.
There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry,
no romance to make tolerable this existence.
We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight.
The eternal light with which childhood fills the world
would be extinguished.
Not believe in Santa Claus!
You might as well not believe in fairies!
...The most real things in the world are those that neither
children nor [grown-ups] can see.
Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn?
Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there.
You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside,
but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the
strongest [grown-ups]...that ever lived, could tear apart.
Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain
and view...the beauty and glory beyond.
Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world
there is nothing else so real and abiding.
No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever.
A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay,
ten times ten thousand years from now,
he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
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I love the magic and spirit of Santa.
And there are plenty of arguments for and against it,
but I think I'm for it.
What would Christmas be without Santa?
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Gratitude Journal
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1) Two more piano lessons down, only two to go for this year! And two days to go till our recital. 2017 is almost done! I'm so ready for 2018.
2) The dollar tree, and birthday presents and decorations for my New Years Eve/Blog Party! Which, if you've been reading my blog, you are most definitely invited to.
3) Chick fil ah birthday parties.
4) Good friends, especially those who take my children on a whim because I need a break.
5) Cuddling with my children, and just having fun doing the things we do.
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