"It's raining, it's pouring, the old man is snoring..."
Okay, that's not nice of me to call him old. But Jeff is snoring. And, it is quite literally pouring outside.
The other day, we received a random toy catalogue in the mail from an unscrupulous company trying to solicit early Christmas sales. The first one was sent back in July. Come on! Is that really necessary? According to my 5 year old, it is. These catalogues have got him all in a festive lather. His wheels are a-spinnin'.
While not happy about the commercialistic aspect of this paper dream-starter, I was happy for the down time it has afforded my sick squirt. He sat down and perused the pages carefully, being even more careful to not drool on it's precious pages. After some time, I walked in to see the once pristine catalogue, torn, into many pieces. Chase had carefully ripped out the items of interest and put them in a rather large and crumply pile. The rest of the catalogue sat off to the side, looking like a mangled carcass after feeding time, left with only the entrails of toys catering to girls, babies, and children with longer attention spans.
"Look at all of the toys I am getting for Christmas, Mom!", Chase shouted with glee. "I had better get praying so I can get all of these toys!"
Wow. Time does a number on our memories, Mr. Beans. So much time has gone by since last Christmas that we have completely forgotten how this whole Santa thing works.
"Uh, you don't pray to Santa, Chase", I carefully reminded my sweet pea; both happy that he remembers that we can pray for things that we need, and disturbed that this accidentally has grown to include the big man in red.
"Oh, yeah, I, um...I remember now! I better get started writing then!"
One issue down, one to go. I next had to remind him that in no way, does making a pile of wishes mean that you are getting all of them, if ANY of them. We still have a few months for this to sink in.
I heart Christmas. I do not heart commercialism. Thank goodness the next magazine to come in the mail was the October issue of the "Friend". That oughta help us put things back into perspective.
Hmmm. I smell a scaled back Christmas this year. Sorry, Wal-mart.
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8 comments:
You are doing such a great job of loving and teaching Chase! What I want is...........you guessed it!
That is at the top of my list!
And, just to warm the cockles of your heart...
Jeff told me the other day that they were talking about a cartoon that had a genie grant three wishes. For fun, Jeff asked Chase what his three wishes would be.
"Grandpa getting better, chocolate...and a dirt bike."
In that order!
We will be joining you on the scaled back Christmas thing.
P.S. Don't you dare feel bad about venting about your sick child. Just because I have four sickies doesn't minimize that your little boy had a doozy of a time (and so did you) getting better. Like I've told you a million times: One is harder.
ha ha ha you are great! I am so excited for christmas too but I am more excited about making and giving my gifts...maybe let him start making some gifts for people!
I wonder if this is the same catalog we got--Kaysen has already picked out what he wants. I thought he would forget about it, but occasionally I ask him what he wants for Christmas, and he repeats the same toy that he saw in the catolog, time after time! He's 2--should he be doing this yet??
Uh, yep! They know what they like!!
The christmas commercials are ON! We have gotten "I want that" alot around here!
We are getting a house for christmas - I'm sure it will be scarce for everyone!
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