Kids say the UnPCest things

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I was out shopping this afternoon and I overheard a kid, seeing the chocolate Father Christmas, say "Oh look it's a black one not like the normal ones". I don't think anyone else heard him but me.

Xmas Foods Countdown 19 - Chocolate Father Christmas

All the proof you need

We have never taught any of our children to believe in Father Christmas though some have. One of my sons told me this year how he rumbled the whole thing. When he was around eight years old we took him again to see Santa. Santa said "And what's your name?" "Why do you ask?" says my son "I told you it last year". The lame "Oh I forgot"" cut no ice. The impostor had been rumbled.

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Mechanical Santa

We normally go to Wales at Christmas but this year we're at home except for a quick trip to see my sister in her new house last Tuesday. While there I took opportunity to get a clip of the family Santa Claus - another memory of my mother. Someone was noisy as I filmed which prompted me to shush them (another memory) in the noisy manner of a drunk - one of my mother's favourite jokes. The next day my sister had got on a bus and the kids were happy to sit over the wheel - a definite "no, no" for us (makes you sick) and yet one more reminder of my mother and her advice.