Our children wrote letters to Santa, which they left laid out under our Christmas tree. We have never done that before, so we asked where they learned about Santa letters. They told us they learned to write them from Charlie Brown's Christmas movie. I'm sure Charlie Brown would be proud.
Also, Jon, as a very knowledgable first grader, told me he knew about Santa. Now, we have never really pushed Santa, but we've never told our kids there isn't a Santa, either, so I was intrigued. His clarification: Santa is just a guy who drives his car around, uses a ladder to climb onto roofs and then enters homes via chimneys. Derek's interpretation: Santa is a cat burglar.
Michael noted, after analyzing what he had received for Christmas, that Santa hadn't brought him anything, because we had bought it all. DJ, on the other hand, attributes all of his gifts, including those that were labeled with a from line, to Santa. Isn't it fun to be young?
