History with the Big Guy

We had our church Christmas breakfast this morning and I had a bit of an epiphany ......our girls are NOT fond of visiting Santa!!! Now I do realize that Bailee is getting a little older, and although she is still a pretty good sport, she was less than thrilled. Emmrey loves the idea of Santa, but when it comes to sitting on his lap? Not so much!! And our dear little Karsyn .... well I had to urge her over and over to get a little closer so I could at least take a picture.


As I grumbled in my head about the ordeal of getting a simple photo with Santa, I realized that this was not specific to this year. They get super excited for Christmas and the anticipation of Santa coming. But do they want to actually SEE him or TALK with him? No ...nuh-uh ...nope!! I started looking through old photos of Christmas past and guess what? The look on their faces year after year says "I am putting up with this as a means to an end, but I am not liking it one bit". (Karsyn especially has a track record!!!:) I do have a couple of years with pretty happy girls with Santa. They must have really been humoring me!

I can't believe it has taken me this long to come to this realization. No wonder they LOVED their email message from Santa last year (no real interaction:) Karsyn had asked if they could just have this type of encounter with the big guy this year. Of course Mom always wants a photo for the "memories". Can you really blame them? It is a little creepy when you think about it:)
Maybe this would make it more FUN???