Yes, Virgina, Santa Smokes a Pipe!
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Our snowman is puffing on an old broken cob I've had forever. It's our go-to snowman pipe every year.
PC police = lol
Our snowman is puffing on an old broken cob I've had forever. It's our go-to snowman pipe every year.
PC police = lol
Good timing. I happened to notice a Santa figure with a pipe this morning at our home. My wife has I think about 50 different Santas sprinkled around the house, including a doze or so "Clothtique" figures. Those were gifts from me until she said "enough!". Only one of those has a pipe, she puts that one on top of my pipe cabinet. We're not sure where the little figurine came from. Santa with a pipe, a rare thing.
There was a time in a decade long gone, before we lived in CA, my kids built a snowman and borrowed one of my pipes to complete his outfit ... luckily, I discovered what had happened before any damage was done and was able to give them an old drugstore pipe I didn't mind parting ways with ...
Just last night, my daughter was looking at a old picture of her on Santa's lap and asked if it was the real Santa. Mom said no it wasn't. I said, "Of course not! The real Santa smokes a pipe!" My daughter says, "How do you know?" Well, there I was stuck so I flat out lied and said, "Because I met him. A looonnng time ago."
She's 8 and at that age where she still believes in the real Santa, but is realizing that some things don't quite make sense. We're torn between wanting to keep the dream alive and wanting to be done with the extra work to keep it alive. lol Really, I'm amazed her sister hasn't spoiled it for her already.
She's 8 and at that age where she still believes in the real Santa, but is realizing that some things don't quite make sense. We're torn between wanting to keep the dream alive and wanting to be done with the extra work to keep it alive. lol Really, I'm amazed her sister hasn't spoiled it for her already.
8O There's no Santa? :crying:
Naaaaw!! Wait a minute. Who brought me my Christmas pipe last year if it wasn't Santa Claus?!
Naaaaw!! Wait a minute. Who brought me my Christmas pipe last year if it wasn't Santa Claus?!
My daughter was about 7 when, while I was away on a business trip, she pestered my wife about the truth about Santa. So, my wife fessed up and told Katie the truth. Katie cried and said to my wife, "Now I suppose there isn't any Easter Bunny." My wife, wisely, told her that she should save that question for when I got home.
A couple of days later I walked in the door from the airport and Katie ran up to me and asked if there was an Easter Bunny. I said, "Of course there is. Who do you think brings all those Easter eggs?"
The wife looked at me astonished that I would lie to a 7 year-old. I explained that in the Rules For Being A Dad lying to one's child is absolutely called for in matters of Santa, the Easter Bunny and said Dad's unfaltering wisdom.
It wasn't the first lie I told her and sure as hell ain't going to be the last. After all, Katie is only 28 now.
A couple of days later I walked in the door from the airport and Katie ran up to me and asked if there was an Easter Bunny. I said, "Of course there is. Who do you think brings all those Easter eggs?"
The wife looked at me astonished that I would lie to a 7 year-old. I explained that in the Rules For Being A Dad lying to one's child is absolutely called for in matters of Santa, the Easter Bunny and said Dad's unfaltering wisdom.
It wasn't the first lie I told her and sure as hell ain't going to be the last. After all, Katie is only 28 now.
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