Tricking our kid into believing in Santa

Most kids will blindly swallow the outlandish Santa story until at least age 8 or 9. Liam is only 2.5 and not quite buying it. So yesterday we were talking about Santa and Liam was looking at our Chimney and said "Santa doesnt go into the chimney, He's too big, and "wook, dares steam coming out of the chimney. He cant go down there." Then I was telling him about reindeer and he was totally like "Reindeer,mom, do NOT fly!" We ended the conversation with him just kinda shaking his head almost like "well, as long as I get presents....:

The "gingerman" kid

We read a book about gingerbread men pirates that come to life and escape Santa. Ever since then gingerbread men(or "gingerman" as he calls it)have had almost action figure status. We have a cool little retro bake shop that sell them on Fridays, decorated with hed hot buttons and all. We finally made them ourselves and Liam helped with each step. He made me promise that I wouldnt let Santa eat too many of them.

Are Mormons allowed to believe in Kharma

Are Mormons allowed to believe in Kharma? ‘Cause I certainly do, almost as a principle to live my life by. It makes our walk to life seem fair to think that if we are benevolent people the world will treat us kindly. It makes it easier to keep going as the world around you shifts. Being a generally trusting, upstanding person I tend to think I have the edge when it comes to ‘good luck.’ Good begets good, bad perpetuates bad. Simple enough. Right?

But without asking your permission, life sometimes seems to throw a wrench in the kharma wheel. An event will throw you off beat and then without warning follows a series of intensely hurtful pains. The oft asked question “Why do bad things happen to ‘good’ people?” chases around your thoughts. All of a sudden the comfort and security in your life is extracted and replaced with an uncertain mess you have to clean up.

I believe that we are given trials to learn, I can accept that. God wants us to be refined and draw closer to Him. The path He would have us take does not meander and when we need God most we tend to be more willing to follow the straight and narrow.
What’s hard to swallow is when trials are caused by others deceptiveness and sin.

A few weeks ago my new car got smashed in the back by a hit and run the rest of the days that followed have been increasingly raw with other personal painful events.

I guess that's why we have the atonement of Jesus Christ. It makes things fair when life seems unreasonable. It brings us power beyond our own when we feel weak.

Liam is super excited about Christmas. He wants to do everything by the Christmas tree- play, eat, read his bedtime stories... He loves looking at the ornaments and playing with them (Don't worry we have the ornaments strategically placed in descending order of destructibility. All the kid friendly ones are at the bottom.) Today he was singing "We wish you A Merry Christmas" along with this electronic, twangy, musical ornament and all of a sudden I heard a crash. I was about to get angry for him trying to climb the tree when I couldnt find him. I looked closely and I saw his legs and body sticking out from the tree. It was hilarious. Seeing that no one likes to have a Christmas tree fall on their face I figured there was no need to say anything more.