Christmas was great, until Piper threw up all over Karen's dining room (including a cloth covered chair), then again at our house, and again and again (4x, yep, thats right). In the middle of all that Sage started. So at 9pm last night Shawn was shampooing our carpets (grape tylenol vs white carpeting....emergency carpet shampooing) and I was setting Piper up on the couch with the garbage can. Poor kiddo.....Merry Christmas to the Hanna family.Before the puking we had a great day! Shawn got me some Under Armour for running, and shirt and pants so now I am ready to tackle cold weather runs. My sister in law got me a great vest (Im a bit vest obsessed), Piper got a Barbie house, car, new Barbie, a sewing machine and lots of other stuff. Sage got toys. Lots and lots of toys. Shawn got long underwear, a new knife and a scabbard for hunting on horseback. We got a new grill from Shawn's mom and dad and Im sure we will be breaking that in tonight!
I thought alot this weekend about "belief". Why do we believe in Santa? The answer I got from Piper was because we have Santa Tracker to see where he is flying and reindeer food to attract Rudolph, plus Santa has email and a website. Kids today believe because they have technology telling them to. We believed because, well, because we went to bed early and got up early and VOILA....Santa had been there! No government agency tracking him across the globe, no Reindeer food guiding Rudolph (who didnt need any directions for hundreds of years) and Santa didnt write you a letter till you wrote him one. We believed because we did, thats just the way it was. Im kinda sad that my kids need so many reasons to believe. Im sad that they cant just believe because they are children and they can.
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