The kids had a half-day at school yesterday so the Lovely and Talented Wife took them to Disneyland with some friends. It’s like a ritual around here. On days school lets out early you’ll run into half the school there—everyone has an annual pass. ‘Tis the season, so they went to Santa’s village to visit with Mrs. Claus…

Lovely and Talented Wife: Ok, kids. Last time: settle down or I'm going to telephone Mrs. Claus and get you onto the naughty list.

It gets very quiet, very quickly.

Friend, whispering: Does she really have Mrs. Claus' phone number?
Daughter, nodding, sadly: Yeah.

Comments

1. MCMilker on 2006-12-13 07:28:48 wrote: OK - this made me laugh! I have been threatening my 4-year-old recently by claiming that I will E-MAIL Santa. He’s convinced that I will and races to the computer to stop me.

2. sleepydays on 2006-12-23 07:02:20 wrote: SO great! Next time, I will definitely use this technique! It’s SO funny! But my 4 year-old son only got to know about Santa this year (we are living in Singapore), so he hasn’t really digested the idea / relationship of “Santa Claus and X’mas, and X’mas present” yet. Today, I really struggled trying to get him understand why he must wait till the X’mas day and remain a good boy in order to get his X’mas present. How nice you are living so near to the Disneyland…to kids in Singapore, just one visit to a Disneyland can be one big dream!