The holiday season is fully upon us. I keep trying to explain to the boys, what all the hype is about. I try to explain the Christmas spirit. I actually usually refer to it as Christmas Magic. The magic aspects seems to resonate with the boys more. Of course it helps explain a lot of things too. When you talk about Santa, you get a lot of "why" questions. The boys still believe, so you can get away with a lot of "Christmas magic" answers. For example: "How does Santa get down our chimney with the wood stove we have instead of a fireplace?" Answer: "Santa uses his Christmas magic." It works for how Reindeer fly or how he gets to all the houses in one night. By the way, only grown ups can know the phone number for Santa. We're not allowed to tell kids. Keep that one handy. You never know when you are going to have to call Santa to ask him to double check the naughty list if the kids are acting up a bit.
The boys and I had a long talk about the meaning of the Christmas spirit. We talked about generosity. We talked about thinking about others needs and wants. We talked about charity. We talked about how all the noblest feelings and intentions of human kind tend to surface and culminate at this particular time of year. Caz and Coco asked a lot of great questions. I think they were happy with the answers. They were so enthusiastic about helping to pick out toys and gifts for the Toys for Tots type bin that my workplace is putting together. They didn't squawk once about getting something for themselves. It is these types of talks that I hope the boys latch on to and remember years from now. Time will tell.
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