Parental Advice From A Non-Parent

You probably clicked into this post thinking you were going to want to slap me by the end of it.
Who wants parental advice from a non-parent?
No worries...if you love me now, you'll still love me at the end of the post.
I'm not stepping on any bloggy soap boxes here!
Continue on... it's safe :)

Thanksgiving is over.
The leftovers are disappearing.
Christmas is in full effect all around!
Makes me giddy, y'all.
(Giddy is a funny word, huh? Say it a few times...seriously.)
Giddy, giddy, giddy, giddy.
(See? You're beginning to question if it's really a word at all now, right?)

Soon, if not already, children everywhere will begin slipping their letters to Santa in the mailbox & sticking up the little red outgoing mail flag.
If I can urge anything to parents around the holidays, it is this:
Grab that letter, make a copy, and tuck them both away somewhere very safe.
Somewhere your children will never ever care to look... like a folder labeled "Taxes 2002" ;)
Do this every year, and when your children are all old enough...
wrap those letters in a box & stick them under the tree.
My Mom did this for my siblings & I many years ago and it gave us the best
Christmas morning giggles she'd heard in years!
We all sat together on the living room floor reading our letters aloud to one another
and laughing our heads off at the requests we had made.
It was the sweetest gift...
one better than any request we could have ever made on a Christmas list!

Go on, go on...
grab your sharpie & get to marking that file folder!
You'll thank me when you hear the giggles of your grown children on Christmas morning many years from now.

Smooches,
Lace