As the christmas tide comes to a close I am reminded of the giddiness and conversations of the kids at 2am on Christmas Day as they restlessly awaited 5am on Christmas !!
Daugher: I hope Santa eats the cookies and milk I left for him
Me: yes I am sure he will, now lets get back to bed
Son: We have to give food for the reindeer
Me: Wait what?
Daugher : Carrots and water
Me: Lets skip that, they poop all over the place and make a mess
Daughter: he will love the cookies I made
ME ( muttering) yes the cookies from every house is going to give him obesity and diabetes and then he is going to have a heart attack
Daughter What daddy?
ME: Nothing, let’s go back to sleep
Son: what if he has a heart attack?
ME: Going to have to give him CPR in the family room
Daughter: but the motion security alarm is on how will he come in?
ME: Yes that’s going to be a problem, but he is made of light so he won’t set it off, come on lets go to sleep its very late
Son but it is raining outside how will the reindeer land without slipping?
ME: didnt you read my book “ Interview with an Elf” ? I told you Santa uses thought to travel not reindeer
Daughter: but how can the reindeer see in the rain?
ME ( yawn) they have special windshield wipers on their eyes, let’s go to sleep I am VERY sleepy
Son We need to have a webcam and watch Santa coming in
ME: no lets not, Santa needs privacy while putting the presents under the tree ( so do we while we set up the scene downstairs)
Daugher: I want to stay up all night and meet him
Son Me too
ME: Wait what ? No no we need to sleep right now
Son come on sister lets get to bed we have to wake up in 3 hours
ME : What ? No. no one gets up before 7am
Daugher : What’s that noise? I think Santa is here I have to go check ( proceeds to climb out of bed)
ME: no get back into bed, thats just the wind moving the floor boards
Daughter: maybe he needs help with the presents
ME:he is a grown man he can do it himself, he has elves ( thinking mommy wrapping them up right now)
Daughter (yawn) I wonder if the elf will be there in the morning
Son no he leaves after Christmas Eve to meet Santa
Daughter can we all goto the Northpole right now with the elf?
ME: What no PLEASE goto sleep we ( ME) will be very tired in the morning, the elf travels alone its faster
Son: ( yawn) I am tired
ME ( thank god)
Daughter: Lets all goto Daddy’s room and sleep on him
Son: Awesome idea….
Both jump out of their beds and climb into my bed..
ME : finally we sleep
Daughter: it is too noisy with the rain and wind, Daddy can you tell it to stop?
ME: ( I will get right on it) Will let Santa deal with that task
I nestled back into bed under the covers with each kid resting on top of me on both sides and their breaths became deeper as they fell asleep
3 hours later at 5am they were up at the crack of dawn and the fun began…. Merry Xmas
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I love you
