The great Santa fakeout
Friday, December 24th, 1999Merry Christmas everyone!
This year the kids found Santa’s clothes and stole them. They seemed to think I was Santa - asked what I would do without my clothes and even made threatening noises about pulling my beard.
So we faked them out: I went for a little walk and our backup Santa came right back in. Two minutes later I came back and sat down to enjoy the show. Of course they don’t believe in Santa anymore - but they sure were surprised!
None of the grownups in my family exchanged Christmas presents this year, it all went to the kids. I loved giving this to my brother’s 8-year old son:
