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I'm coming down from having one of the most frustrating conversations I've ever had with another human being. Nevermind that said human being is a 5 year old boy that is too smart for his own good. Suddenly he's figured everything out, all the world's secrets. Every single one of them. And let me tell you, he is PISSED. He's furious that we've all been lying to him since the moment he took his first breath only 5 short years ago. He's been thinking about the whole Santa thing for quite a while now and according to him, none of it makes any sense. No one can actually fit down a chimney, there's no workshop full of elves making toys that we can just buy at Target. It's all fake.

This parenting thing is a real adventure, let me tell ya. One minute you're cruising along, cutting sandwhiches into tiny little christmas trees and for their lunches and feeling like parent of the year because you haven't even forgotten to move the elf once this season. Next thing you know, you're in a full on blizzard of emotions because a 5 year old is yelling at you and accusing you of sitting on a throne of lies.

So I told him the truth. I told him it's all pretend and just for fun and that he better not tell his older sister or his best friends across thr street because they believe so hard and it would destroy them in the same way it would if he unwrapped all their Christmas presents for them. "It's not even about the presents. It's about family, food and animals anyway," he said.

He has the biggest heart and like I said, he's too smart for his own good.

He's right though.

Remember to love your people this season. Spend time with them. Tell them how proud and grateful you are to have them in your life.