Santa Visit

Yesterday, we wrote letters to Santa and headed to the Mall to put them in the Macy's Santa Mailbox. Their "Believe" campaign will donate $1 to the Make-a-Wish foundation for every letter they receive up to $1,000,000. They are currently around 650,000, so if you haven't written to Santa yet, you better do so. I child's wish depends on it.

When we arrived at the mall, Santa himself was there—and there was NO line. Luke was very eager to speak with Santa and tell him all about the things he wanted for Christmas. Gavin on the other hand would not even look at him. This was their first real visit with Santa. We took Luke when he was a baby and he screamed bloody murder. After that we decided not to take the kids unless they said that they wanted to go. Of course I didn't have my camera with me, so I paid a small fortune to have Luke's picture taken. There was a christmas train there too for the kids to ride. So we did that as well. They HAD to sit in the engine so that they could ring the bell. Two trips around the track just weren't enough and it was difficult to pull them away. But we needed to get to Macy's to mail our letters, so I convinced them to leave. By the time we left, it was dark so the kids were able to enjoy all the Christmas lights on the houses. The night before we actually went for a drive after dinner to look at lights. It was a great way to end the day, entertaining the children without TV, together in the car as a family.

And just to give you a little chuckle, I sent my phone through the washer—AGAIN. Luke stuffed it in one of his pant pockets. It is currently drying out. Let's see if it will even turn on after this.