Sadly, it was about this age for me, too.

Merry Christmas to everyone! We had a really late start this morning as far as Christmas is concerned. My kids didn’t get up until 7:40 which is pretty miraculous. I can
remember several years where I was sending the short people back to bed as early as 3:30 in the morning. The policy has always been that the sun must actually be up before Christmas can begin. I think that’s totally reasonable.

It was a lovely day. The kids got a ton of stuff and it was very loud at our house today. I got a new laptop which just about made me pee myself. My old laptop was embarrassing. It was missing three letters so I had another wireless keyboard I would set on top of the laptop to type. That is not really a set up you want to take to the Starbucks with the rest of the writers and their sleek machines. I was like the low rent writer with, what my brother-in-law would call, a Jethro laptop.

Even though it was a lovely day, I am ending it on a sad note. I worked really hard this whole week. Sassy kept asking roundabout questions I did my best to evade, but she wasn’t having any of it.

Finally she asked me point blank, with no easing into it, whether or not I was Santa Claus.

Crap.

I told her if she didn’t believe in Santa she didn’t get the presents, but that didn’t sway her. So then I asked if she was sure she wanted to know. She told me yes and I found that I could no longer lie. She took it very well. She had already come to the undeniable conclusion so that softened the blow. She didn’t piece together the Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy yet, but she will when they come around, I’m certain. It’s only a matter of time.

I took the news way harder than she did.

I wonder if I can get the boy all the way to college before he figures it out.