neither brendan or i am very festive people. we don't really get into holiday cheer and all that. regardless, we're not going to do santa claus with éamon. we can't imagine telling him that a fictional character (with such a superficial back story) is real. i don't really know what the value to that is. i suppose people think it's fun, but i can think of loads of other fun things. besides, gift giving and christmas is fun without santa. my parents didn't pretend santa was real with us, and we still had stockings and all that.
i'm thinking of this because it occurred to me that the santa claus parade is in a few weeks. we won't be taking éamon to that. not because of santa, but because it's a lousy parade. i'd taking to the toronto parade, but the one in kingston is just a bunch of cars with advertising on them. in the past, when andrew and shannon lived on princess street, the four of us would sit at their window drinking beer and critiquing (mocking?) the floats – looking for the worst ones. we once witness a lovers quarrel that we found moderately entertaining. it was a fun tradition. it's really the only downside to them living upstairs now.
it's hard for me to understand, no not even understand, but fathom, why people get so excited about santa. to me, it feels like the equivalent to eating topsoil or something. but i'll strive for a 'live and let live' attitude on this topic, because there's no right or wrong. i'm thinking of this because it occurred to me that the santa claus parade is in a few weeks. we won't be taking éamon to that. not because of santa, but because it's a lousy parade. i'd taking to the toronto parade, but the one in kingston is just a bunch of cars with advertising on them. in the past, when andrew and shannon lived on princess street, the four of us would sit at their window drinking beer and critiquing (mocking?) the floats – looking for the worst ones. we once witness a lovers quarrel that we found moderately entertaining. it was a fun tradition. it's really the only downside to them living upstairs now.
i find myself knowing the things that i knew.
2 comments:
We did the same thing with James and when Santa came to his daycare he was the only one who wouldn't sit on Santa's lap and his objection was he "didn't know the strange man". (He never liked to sit on people's laps unless he was comfortable with them)It is odd in society when we are so protective of our children these days that we have no problem sending them off to sit on some strange man's lap?
We do the Santa thing with our kids and it's mostly because we both believed in him when we were kids. I remember when I found out he wasn't real my mom explained that Santa or Saint Nicholas represented the spirit of giving. I was raised in a pretty religious household and I think my parents did a good job balancing the Christian story and the Santa story and even combining the two.
I think either option with Santa is perfectly fine. The traditions that you raise your children with are the ones that will be important to them. Honestly the things I remember the most fondly with my family were the times spent with family, not how many presents Santa brought me versus how many I got from someone else.
Marlene
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