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What a year it has been! It has indeed been a year do doing so many things that I said I would never do. And the photo above is just one of those things. I took the kids to Macy’s to visit Santa. Commercialism be damned! I did it and honestly it was awesome. Yea, we had to wait in line…not too bad it was a rain weekday. We waited maybe 20 minutes. In the beginning it was everything I didn’t want it to be. Loud and kind of for lack of a better word cheesy…but the further you got in through the line the better the experience got. Then you are there at the gates that lead to “the North Pole Villiage” and “Santa’s helpers” take you down some darker quieter hallways to a little alcove and in the corner of the alcove…the best damn Santa I have ever, EVER seen. It was so sweet. I don’t think he said Ho, Ho, Ho once. Alice skipped over to him arms open! He picked Alice up, bounced her up and down a couple of times and placed her on his knee. He spoke to her quietly, they laughed she was clearly having a really good time. It was so so sweet. Then it was Fin’s turn…he wasn’t as comfortable with the whole sitting on the lap thing but he came around. He asked for a BB gun and a Nerf gun…neither of which he will get and Alice asked for a yellow dress and a doll.
Just a few of the other things that I said I wouldn’t do…train for a marathon ( I ran two half-marathons this year) and we went to see the Thanksgiving day parade, we had a great time.
This year has been a year of never say never.
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