My daughter asked me a funny question the other day. She said, "Daddy, if we have our home alarm turned on at night time, how will Santa get in the house to deliver our presents"? I laughed so hard when she asked that, because from a child's point of view it's a very logical question!
Then she exclaimed, "I know!!!! We'll use the motion sensors on our alarm to catch Santa!". She may have been onto something there (parents know what I mean), so I told her that we would leave it off on Christmas Eve so we don't have any problems. :-)
Along those lines, I was cleaning up the house today getting it ready for Christmas and I noticed a note that she hung on her stocking. She was telling Santa, "Thank you for all of my presents. Put the smallest present in here." with an arrow pointing to a small stocking that she pinned to her larger stocking. I thought that was very cute, and it fits right in the mood of the holidays as the kids get so excited for Christmas morning to open their presents and enjoy the excitement of Christmas day.
Every once in a while, parents (including me) get a little hung up on the fact that kids don't listen all the time (sometimes not at all!). Maybe they don't do their chores when they need to, they don't want to do their homework, they argue about going to bed "too early", etc. It can be frustrating to deal with these same topics every day, and we wonder why they can't just figure out that these things need to be done, and there's no way out of doing them.... When I sometimes get frustrated by these little things in life, it's the moments like the discussion I had above with my daughter and finding this little note to Santa that reset my brain and my disposition and remind me that they're only kids and we need to let them be kids. The chores and other things in life can sometimes wait for another day and we need to just let things be and enjoy the moments...
Have a great holiday season and a Happy New Year! Enjoy the moments...
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