Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Santa Smokes

Imagine my joy this morning. George was looking at all the beautifully wrapped presents under the tree. There is a new gift under there from my mother. It is wrapped in a vintage santa gift bag. Unfortunately for me, vintage Santa does indeed smoke.

George announced, "Hey Mom, Santa smokes." I was perplexed and said, "No he doesn't." George said, "Yes he does. He has a black thing coming out of his mouth." And then I recalled the pipe. Max jumped in, "Yes, he has one. But it's just a picture of Santa smoking."

Max already thinks smoking is cool. So smoking Santa, vintage or not, is not helping the situation. He is my last believer, so Smoking Santa will have to be idolized for the next year.

2 comments:

Cathy Wallace said...

We just got your Christmas letter and, as usual, it was a delight. A couple weeks ago Alissa commented that she was looking forward to Christmas. When I asked her what she was most excited about (expecting it to be visits from her brothers or sister-in-law or at the very least presents), she said, "The Christmas letter from the Sabins. It's hilarious." Two points for the Sabins. Then yesterday I came into the kitchen to find a stack of mail, containing about twenty Christmas cards, but only one that had been opened --yours. Two more points for the Sabins. Thanks for staying in touch! We miss you guys!

P.S. You can tell Max that Santa quit smoking in 1970 when he read the results of a science experiment: 'The Surgeon General Has Determined that Cigarette Smoking is Dangerous to Your Health'. It's true. Now he just eats cookies.

Julie Sparks said...

At last, not one, but two posts, in one week! Woohoo! It's about time.