Our family tradition is to attend the Christmas Eve service at church, head over and celebrate with all the Rosenfeldts, and then spend time with Nick's immediate family, opening presents together. This usually gets us home by 11:30 p.m./12:00 a.m. Then we wake up for Christmas morning at home, give the kids time to play with new toys while we take the tree down and pack up the van for PA to spend time with my family.
Needless to say, every part of this plan depends on the kids getting plenty of rest so that they can fully function. So, on Christmas Eve day, Nick made the threat to Abby that if she did not take a nap that day, Santa might not come that night.
Well, she took her chances and stayed up all afternoon. Obviously, Santa came that night and our little girl actually had the nerve to say to her daddy on Christmas morning, "See! I didn't take a nap and Santa still came-told you!"
Which led Nick's threat of no Santa to become a lesson on grace. Abby heard a nice little talk from us about how Santa showed grace to her, giving her presents when she did not really earn them.
I would like to say that she was profoundly inspired by this lesson, but frankly, I have a feeling she just thinks she knows better.
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