"He knows if you've been sleeping......"

Merry & Happy Christmahanukwanzakah,

I hope everyone had a wonderful respective holiday of choice these past few weeks. I know I had a wonderful Christmas back home. I now have quite the sweater collection. Also, this X-mas marked somewhat of a momentous occasion for the family. My little brother, Christopher, found out that Santa does not exist. I remember when I was a child it was my neighborhood friend Alex that told me Santa wasn't real, along with where I really came from (not a cabbage patch, mom) and what a girl's hoohaa looks like (put your hands together, separate the middle fingers and place them inside my hands.....ewwww!) My folks told Chris and I think it was proper for them to pop the bubble they perpetuated throughout his life. But, it did make we wonder how Christian families can justify lying to their children about Santa, but then say other things just as supernatural and unexplained, are true.

[Hit the jump! What are you, a Grinch?]

"Chris, you know that man we told you that lives in the North Pole with elves, rides around on flying reindeer, slides down peoples' chimneys and give gifts to every good boy and girl in the world all in one night? He is not real."

"Santa doesn't exist?"

"Yeah, Chris. I think you are old enough now to know."

"But, what about the man who was born of a virgin birth, can walk on water and cured the sick and blind, was killed but rose from the grave three days later and will come at the end of time to take all the good boys and girls to heaven?"

"Oh, Jesus? Yes, he is still very much a real person."

"Mom, I kinda wish Santa was still real, too."