Do You Believe?

We Believe. Santa is real. Although I think that SuperStar has her concerns about it all because others in her class to not believe. She still does. Spidey does. I do. BigGuy does. Babers does, but he isn't really clear on what he believes in. Santa we tell him - although we explain that you never really see Santa. We see his helpers - the people that he hires to "get us excited" about the season - or the helpers that the mall hires to get us "excited about spending money" SuperStar pointed out. Is Santa white? Some think so. Is Santa black? Some think so. Do we know? Nope. What we do know is Santa is watching out for us - he is thinking about us - he is hoping that we do our best in life (he kinda sounds like God, eh?). We also know that our family believes - even if we have yet to decorate our house!! We have done other things - baked breads for gifts - made Christmas cards - had a family picture taken - started to gather treasures to give to those we love - and mailed our letters to Santa.


In the past years we have always mailed our letters off from home. This year we stumbled across a mail box that our post office said Santa leaves each year. They say that in the morning the letters placed in this special mail box disappear. Could be elves picking them up when no one is watching - could simply be Christmas magic.


We aren't sure. We are sure that we placed our letters inside and that a simple trip where I wanted to take one simple picture of my three adorable children to place on the blog seemed to turn into a photo shoot (run on sentence - deal with it). And we also seemed to cause another mom a little stress. See the family in the background there. See the dad all excited about the mail box, pointing it out to his kids. He was also saying, "Oh, we will have to write our letters and mail them from here too." To which the mom responded with, "Well, we do it (and she said how)" to which the kid said, "But I want to mail mine here." to which the mom gave the dad a look that was kinda like, "Don't mess with my Christmas plan - this does not fit in."


Not that I was listening too closely. I was trying to get Spidey to smile. He was insisting on a picture by himself - only he kept looking like this. Finally I asked, "Why don't you smile?" and he said, "Because I want it to look natural." Dude it took us 5 times to look natural - give it up and smile already!! In the end though - we mailed our letters - now we wait....



Some of us more peacefully then others - he was too tired to mail his letter - slept in the car with BigGuy while we had the photo shoot....think there are visions of Sugar Plums dancing in his head?