Carrie and Danielle - Latest Comments in There Is No Santa Claus, Mommy, You Big Fat Liar!

Re: There Is No Santa Claus, Mommy, You Big Fat Liar!

Leanne — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 19:09:49 -0000

Beautiful....as always..

Re: There Is No Santa Claus, Mommy, You Big Fat Liar!

Storyeller — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:48:06 -0000

I love the way you word this, Den, "it is us". Thank you!

Re: There Is No Santa Claus, Mommy, You Big Fat Liar!

Den — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:03:52 -0000

Santa is real and it is us. He lives as Jesus lives in our hearts.
BTW, I am a former Agnostic

Re: There Is No Santa Claus, Mommy, You Big Fat Liar!

Summerm — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:34:47 -0000

I was raised knowing Santa was pretend, but it never spoiled the fun of it all. :) My own kids know there's no real Santa, but pretending is lots of fun.

Re: There Is No Santa Claus, Mommy, You Big Fat Liar!

Storyeller — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:47:23 -0000

I think you should ask Santa for a history book in your stocking...Jesus, that radical socialist feminist sensualist Mind rocked this world two thousand and some years ago.

Re: There Is No Santa Claus, Mommy, You Big Fat Liar!

mark — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:56:18 -0000

ahh...Santa and Jesus are both pretend.

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laird — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:01:51 -0000

my kids have always known santa was pretend.

i wanted to spare them the disappointment of learning he wasn't real.

Re: There Is No Santa Claus, Mommy, You Big Fat Liar!

Storyeller — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:16:06 -0000

That's great, Alida. I hope to do that for my daughter. The Santa being pretend and the Jesus being real.

Re: There Is No Santa Claus, Mommy, You Big Fat Liar!

Alida — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:50:53 -0000

That's the way my parents always explained it to us. We saw Santa in the mall, and the stockings were "magically" filled, but we always knew that Santa was about pretending, and from a fairly young age, we got into it, too. We'd put a small "extra" gift under the tree for my parents, disguising our handwriting as best we could to make it read from "Santa," and we understood the fun of being anonymous and having this big secret that we were all in on together. I think that from a very young age, I understood that Santa was a symbol of generosity and kindness, and Jesus was the very real, not make-believe part of Christmas.

Re: There Is No Santa Claus, Mommy, You Big Fat Liar!

JulieG — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:27:45 -0000

It has struck me many times over the last few weeks that I'm very, very glad I'm not Christian. Sure, Mom and Dad pretended there was a "Channukah bunny," but as far back as I can remember, it was always tongue-in-cheek. We always knew who got us our presents, and it was the people who loved us and knew what we wanted.