lorelei

Parenting

Merry Christmas from the family

Please someone tell me that your kid is sometimes an ungrateful brat unfortunately honest during present opening.  At this rate she will never have a future as a professional poker player, because she immediately says whatever she is thinking about the present at hand.  We talked about how it would be better to find *one* thing she likes about a gift and to say that, rather than to say all the reasons it wasn’t exactly what she wanted.  At our house Santa brings one big gift.  Santa has always brought one big gift.  Mom and Santa work together on the stocking.  But this year suddenly Santa didn’t bring enough.

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Randomness

Who wore it best?

I’m just so glad we paid to get Lorelei’s school pictures. She couldn’t even be bothered to frown.  She is demonstrating the complete absence of expression, and I was reminded of this picture of me at about the same age, sitting on Santa’s lap, wearing a look that said this is totally not the real Santa, so why are you wasting my time here.

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