Sometimes kids just don’t understand…
Hello Life in 2D! Yes I said 2D today. I am just feeling uninspired this weekend. It is just hard to get inspired to write cheery stories when you are seeing horrific stories, involving innocent kids on TV while busy crossing things off the Christmas To-Do checklist.
I do my best thinking in the shower. Seriously! The down side to ‘brainstorming’ in the shower is that there is nothing to write with. So I have to hurry up before I run out of hot water.
My 4 year old still wants to know why Santa didn’t bring her presents last night, since we have all these decorations up? I try to show her the Advent calender but she still doesn’t understand. So it had me thinking about some of the other things our kids don’t quite grasp about Christmas.
Here is a Top Ten List of things our kids just don’t understand about Christmas:
1. Some of Santa’s elves just wrap toys better than others. It has nothing to do with skill or the amount of time left to wrap them.
2. The being “Naughty” or “Nice” list does not begin two weeks before Christmas. Santa and Santa’s elves actually DO watch them all year long.
3. You can’t play with one toy before opening every package that Santa and grandparents bring.
4. The elves designed some toy packages to ‘ship safely’ and not packaged to immediately play with. Dad just needs some breakfast before he commits to untangling the maze of wires and twists or ‘assembly’ in order to get to the toy; or else it could get broken Christmas morning.
5. If a toy breaks Christmas morning Santa can not bring you a new one over night. A whole new ‘Naughty or Nice’ list begins Christmas morning.
6. Santa can make it down the chimney. Sometimes he just needs to make several trips. There is no need to leave the door open this year; or a window open over night.
7. Santa’s presents DO really have something to do with somebody’s birthday. Just not their birthday.
8. The toys are not more important than the thought or the love behind them; even the sweaters or the books you did not ask for.
9. Santa only makes the toys. He does not bring the batteries too.
10. Mommy and Daddy really do want to take a nap after opening all the gifts that morning.
- No Dylan, you can’t stick the ornament on the tree by ‘pressing’ on the tree
Maybe you know of some other things your kids do not understand about Christmas.
Please feel free to offer them below. Maybe one of us has an explanation. And there is no such thing as exaggerating too much! Merry Christmas!
My kids just don’t understand that some toys just cannot be made by Santa and so Santa may elect to get other toys on the list instead… Especially when they are sold out and are going for hundreds of dollars more than the cost on E-bay.
Your list fits some of the things my kids need to learn too.
Yes I should have been an Ebay hoarder! Our kids get visited from the Santa from Target! Shhhhh. I haven’t told them about Ebay yet. Good Luck getting the kids ‘essentials’. They’ll be happy with them.
My little Diva doesnt understand some “toys” are not age appropriate. Why is my 6 yr old asking for a cell phone?????????????
My 4 year old has been asking for two weeks if it is Christmas Eve yet. Everyday he tells me that “you told me it was today.” Of course, I never did. Really fun. As a side note- I do my best thinking in the shower too. My wife thinks I am strange, but now I don’t feel as strange.
Thanks for stopping in Derek. My wife might say that makes you ‘more’ strange if you are thinking like me! She can’t appreciate a good shower! Merry Christmas Derek!
Love this. Here’s what we’ve done. We “created” a Christmas morning tradition. After opening presents at some un-Godly hour, we give our twins a normal breakfast and then Mommy and Daddy take a nap in the same room as the kids watch a Christmas cartoon or play with their (noiseless) toys. Then Mommy makes an awesome brunch..after she sleeps.
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Lets hear it for the noiseless Christmas toys! Your Christmas morning tradition is similar to ours, if you call a normal breakfast Christmas cookies as they help with better pictures as in “stop and smile for the camera and I’ll give you another cookie”. ~Dad still gets his whole grain. And the taking a nap in the same room part. lol You guys must really be tired! Thanks for dropping by Leeanne. I look forward to hearing more about your Holiday and give those twins a hug for me.
Well said. Sweet days, Andy. Have fun next week with those plastic toy wires!
errr, I hate when they out smart me…and seem to be twisted in each direction instead of one or the other. I hope you have a great big fun week too Karen. Merry Christmas!
We are in the house that had to summon Santa early again this year. This takes some planning. However, I love the 8 year old mind, which pretty much knows even though there is something REALLY suspicious about Santa and all the magic that surrounds him, the need to believe is still so strong that parents can get away with a lot. Not sure how long it will last, but we’re grabbing it with all 4 hands while it does! Christmas looks magical at your house, hope it’s grand!