With the holiday season
here, we have received a lot of packages recently. The kids tear into them, and
then Tori likes to collect the boxes. She colors on them, glues things to them
and uses them for her dolls. Right now, she has a stack of boxes higher than
her head. We've had some clashes over the boxes, mainly me needing them and her
not wanting to give them up. I took one box, and that led to a big fit and
timeout for Tori. With Christmas coming up and Santa watching, she has decided
that she will let go of the boxes very soon in order to make way for toys.
Speaking of Santa watching,
we have been reminding the kids of that often. The tactic does not work on
Christian. He knows who Santa really is. It does work on Tori and Eli, very
well in fact. Last night, the two were fighting upstairs when we reminded them
that Santa was watching. Tori was mumbling something about refusing to play
some game with Eli. Huts yelled out Santa was watching, and we heard this
exasperated groan, followed by “Dang it!” We burst out laughing, and it was
some time before we heard any further grumbling.
