I am the worst mom ever. I mean it. I really, really screwed up this one. It all started innocently enough. There is a super cool site where Santa Claus will send your children a video message. Complete with pictures of your child, and info about what your child did over the year. Check it out at Portable North Pole. Wesley received his email first. Santa knew that Wesley needed to pay close attention in school, and he has been doing much better. Wesley made the nice list.
Then I had this brilliant idea. One of the items that Santa will comment on is sucking your thumb. I thought "This is great. Santa will tell Zack to stop sucking his thumb and we can be done with this once and for all" I put Zack on the naughty list for sucking his thumb. Bad, bad mommy. However, I did run the idea by Rob, and he didn't stop me.
Zack started his video. As soon as the video started, he was very nervous. He just had to know if he made the nice list. About half way through, I caught Rob's eye. Should we shut this down now? How? We both knew, this was not going to end well.We waited in horror until the verdict. Zack discovered he was on the naughty list. And burst into tears. Yes, it was as awful as you imagined it to be.
I reiterated that Santa said there was time to make it onto the nice list. Santa just wanted Zack to stop sucking his thumb. I am sure that Santa will still bring you presents. Here, lets go play a game of Mouse Trap. I am pleased to announce that there was no thumb sucking during the game of Mouse Trap. So maybe my horrible, horrible idea will work???
To ensure that Santa will deliver presents to Zack, we are going to make him cookies. But just not any cookies. We are making Chocolate Bacon Chip Cookies . Yes, really. It's a bacon trap for Santa. Because no one can turn down bacon. And because Rob would be really excited about Chocolate Bacon Chip Cookies too. But mostly because it's a bacon trap. And because I am a bad mom.
There is a radio station here that has Santa call kids on the air. The kids are SO excited to talk to Santa and tell them what they want---UNTIL Santa starts calling them out on thee back talking, thumb sucking, whatever. It always ends up with the child crying uncontrollably. So, you are not the only one. After all, if we are gonna lie to our kids, we need to use this lie to our advantage. It was done to us, and it will be done to our grandkids. So, take comfort. You are not alone. And I'd you are a bad parent, so is every parent who ever told their kids, Santa is watching you. Love you MK. I am a bad parent too.
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