Is Santa on Thin Ice?

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**Warning** This post might not exactly be ‘kid-friendly,’ depending on your family’s situation. Parental guidance is suggested.

We have a stash of Christmas presents hiding in a room in the church’s basement. This collection of gifts are set to be delivered by a certain Jolly Old Elf. Things were spread out last week to ensure there was balance amongst the items the Todd children are set to receive.

All of it is unwrapped.

This past Sunday, we hosted our annual Christmas breakfast at church. As I was helping Christy get Mihret settled into her high chair, I saw it: the door to this rarely-used room was wide open. On occasion, the kids go into that room to play with the broken ping-pong table.

I ran to the door and down the short hallway as quickly as I could and got there just as Aiden noticed all the toys and such that were stacked all over the ping-pong table. In retrospect, I realize that if I hadn’t said or done anything, he wouldn’t have thought anything of it. But I panicked. I asked him to leave the room and said it was gifts we were holding onto for another family.

I asked him what he saw and he said he just saw a couple of things. There’s no way he didn’t see more, however. This, of course, has put me and Christy in a bit of a quandary about how to handle this situation.

Mihret is still clueless (as most three  year olds are), but Aiden and Alyson are still believers. They’ve had some questions and comments leading up to this Christmas that have made us think this was the last year they were going to have that twinkle in their eye.

We’ve had several conversations like this this year:

But when we went to a Christmas party a few weeks ago, Alyson declared, “I think that was the real Santa!” And Aiden agreed.

I was the same age as Aiden is when the truth was confirmed to me. So I know we’re on borrowed time here. But we’re really torn about how to handle this. Some of the presents were unique. Very unique. Especially Mihret’s. Like…Christy’s convinced he’ll recognize them as soon as she opens them. And he’ll put two and two together.

I’m thinking he wants to believe in the whole thing enough that he’ll see them and think, “Oh, cool! Someone else got that too.” But then he won’t think anyone else

So what do we do? Do I take take preemptive measures, taking him somewhere by himself and explain the entire situation? Or do we cross our fingers, hoping that he doesn’t put all the pieces together on Christmas morning, leading to his sister also putting the pieces together and potentially causing much drama…

What do you think we should do? Hurry! Christmas is only a few days away. Time is ticking…

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Matt Todd

Howdy. I'm Matt. My wife, Christy, and I have four kids and two dogs, I'm passionate about orphan care. I'm a die-hard fan of the Evansville Aces, the Indiana Hoosiers, and Star Wars. I'm trying to live life by the Todd family motto: "It behooves us to live!"
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