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Santa???

Now that Christmas is upon us again we will be enjoying our usual family routines and traditions..I was thinking tonight about last Christmas. I bought The Daddy Man a Santa costume, fully expecting him to NOT wear it. The Daddy Man usually puts Ebenezer Scrooge to shame with his "bah humbugitis", so i was expecting lots of No's and shaking of the head. However he seemed to have been bitten by the Xmas bug and decided to dress up and be an awesome daddy by giving the kids a visit on Christmas as the fat man himself!!


 We planned for weeks about how to pull it off, we did a few dress and voice rehearsals and hoped for the best. We had the outfit perfected albeit The Daddy Man would be wearing a pair of his own shoes, with boot looking covers. We wernt too concerned because the kids would be so excited to see Santa that they wouldn't even bother looking for imperfections, or would they? The kids are getting bigger and far more attentive now that they are older, so we knew we had to be sneaky in order to fool them.


So Christmas morning The daddy Man went for a walk 10 houses up to his nan's to give her some pressies. While he was gone Santa came waddling down our street (much to the amusement of the parents and children already playing with their new bikes and scooters) and knocked on our door. I knew he was coming because of a sneaky text message so was awaiting his arrival. 


As i opened the door i feigned shock and surprise and let the kids know that they had a very important visitor. In came Santa with his over sized pillowed belly and his scruffy white beard. A few ho ho's and hugs and squeals out of the kids and we thought we were on a roll! We had fooled them and delighted their day!! ....or so we thought. 


The jman who was 5 has always been a touch shy and was smirking. I asking him "jman aren't you excited..Santa is here!!!" The Jman looked at this imposter with shady eyes and said with confusion"you talk like my dad". Santa was shocked and told him that maybe he sounded the same because he had been driving his sleigh for so long to get here from the north pole. I stepped in and told him that sometimes peoples voices sound the same and that i was positive that this was the jolly old guy. The daddy man attempted a range of different accents for his next few sentences to try and hide his voice while i almost collapsed with a shocking case of the giggles.The Jman seemed to accept this and carried on in excitement. 


After about 15 minutes Santa's time was up so he said his good byes and started heading out the door. However as he went to leave Mr Tman who was 6 then told him "i know your not Santa because you are wearing my dad's shoes". At this stage i tried to divert their attention as Santa waddled back up the street.

This story is something The Daddy Man and i have laughed about over the past year and the story has been told around the family and to friends too many times to count. We realised that kids find every little stuff up and that they had their suspicions.


Now that Christmas is about to hit us once again we have been talking about last year quite a bit in "The Little Cherry House" and yesterday the Tman said to me "that wasn't really Santa last year was it mum?". I said "of course darling why would you say that?". He looked at me with wariness and said "then why was he wearing dad's shoes???"


Tonight i asked the Daddy Man if he'd be dressing up again this year. He said "yep but I'll be wearing my boots"...i think we are going to need luck, ALOT of luck!!


Has your child ever caught or nearly caught you playing the S man??