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Date: 24 December 2004 16:57:38
Yesterday evening I went to visit some friends to drop off some Christmas presents for the kids (their eldest son, now nearly 8, is my godson), and heard the sweetest story, it's still making me laugh today. We were talking after the kids had gone to bed about which of them believed in Santa still, and my friend told me that my godson, since he has been able to have any say in the matter, has always hated the idea of having a strange person come into his room so, even though he'd believed in Father Christmas, they'd had to leave his stocking outside his room so that Santa didn't actually go into his room. Likewise, whenever he lost a baby tooth they had to put the tooth in a glass on the mantelpiece downstairs rather than under his pillow as he didn't want the tooth fairy to come into his room. A couple of years back my friend decided that the time had come to confront his fear with reality, and so she took him to one side, made him absolutely promise not to tell his sister what she was about to tell him, and then said "You know the tooth fairy ... well it isn't really the tooth fairy ... it's me and daddy". He thought about this for a few seconds, then looked at her and said,
"You mean ... you and daddy dress up as the tooth fairy?"
I think she'd felt so awful about spoiling the magic that she just nodded (with straight face of course) and said that yes, they did dress up as the tooth fairy. I think she'll probably confess to him in a couple of years! Every time I think of this story I think of his dad in a tutu and can't help but laugh.
In other news, today I discovered the worst place in the world to be on Christmas Eve. It is Argos in Lewisham. Big, big mistake.
And in yet more news, also today I received my wibsite calendar, which is apparently a prize for something I had no idea I'd won. It's very funny, I liked it very much, especially the coupons on the back. Thank you Maddie and Dave, it made me laugh a lot. Happy Christmas!
So, in a few hours I'm off to my first ever midnight mass Christmas Eve service, I'm really looking forward to it. I'm singing in a small cobbled-together ensemble of singers, most of us have no idea what we are singing but are getting there at 10 to sightread it all so that by 11.30 we'll be sounding suitably angelic. Hopefully.
Happy Christmas everybody, and peace and love to you all xxx