I Have a Feeling...

For some reason I have a feeling I'm going to be busted playing Santa tonight. I've don't have anyone to watch my back while I dig the presents out of storage and set up the train set...yikes! I'm thinking of keeping the kid up so that she's good and tired and goes out like a log. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Last year was awesome. It was the first year we had a chimmney and I teased her about Santa getting stuck. Her answer to me last year was, "well, we'll melt a whole bunch of butter and go up on the roof and pour it down on Santa so that he just slides out." Wellllllll, after that response I had found a pair of Santa type boots at Target last year and I left one in the fireplace. When she came home I told her she had better check up the chimmney to make sure Santa didn't get stuck and lo and behold she found the boot and flipped! I told her he must gotten stuck and lost it trying to push himself out. It was perfect.

This year I have some new tricks up my sleeve. I bought baby powder to make "ash" footprints in the carpeting. To make it more believeable I have a fire going right now to ensure that there is ash about. We went to see Alvin and the Chipmunks this morning and she wanted to wear her Santa hat out, but of course, as usual her room is a disaster and she couldn't find it. She told me that Santa must have stopped by to get it because he must have lost his. Anyway, after the movie we came home to clean and I found her hat in an unlikely spot. Much to my pleasure she was cleaning her bedroom when I found it. I put it up in a safe spot because I decided that she'll get it back tomorrow with her gifts. I'll rub a little ash on it and leave a note thanking her from Santa for letting him borrow it.

I know, I go to great lengths to have a ball with this whole Santa thing, but I think this may be her last year for believing. I also think I'll be more sad than she will be once she learns the truth...I just have wayyyyyy too much fun with it!!!

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Today I am grateful for my daughter, gullibility, my job, and snow/ice storms - even if this is the ONLY time I ever say that!