Waiting On Line (And Waiting And Waiting . . . )

Yeah, that's why we never really did this. Santa at the Christmas Concert-In-The-Park was more our style.

Comments

[vodkamom]

I love that damn cartoon!!!

[apathy lounge]

So true! If a person can fall asleep while standing up with their eyes open, I think I can probably find you a couple dozen parents doing it in the Santa line at the mall.

[Little Miss Sunshine State]

And then you get to the front of the line and your toddler screams because she doesn't want to get near the big, scary Santa.

I just had a 1989 flashback!

[Jen on the Edge]

We never did this because our girls always knew that the Mall Santa wasn't the Real Santa.

[debbie]

We were watching some Christmas movie and one scene was in a mall with kids waiting for Santa...the boys had a really hard time understanding this. Issei was all like "don't they know that's not the real Santa?" Obviously, he and JenOnthe Edge's girls are smarter than the average bears!!

[blognut]

ONCE! I did it one time and that was enough for me. My girls were babies, 1 and 2 years old, and I waited for an eternity to get their picture with Santa. Once we got up the line, they both screamed their heads off and I paid for a picture of 2 purple babies with a bored Santa. Never again!

[Green Girl]

For the few years they offered it, I paid for our kids to do Christmas with Santa at the local art center. I've no idea why they quit doing it--it always sold out and it was intimate and their Santa was a go-od one. But (sigh) they quit and I don't have a clue where else to bring them where it wouldn't be a cheap or shoddy experience.

[Annie]

My grandson finally got to sit on Santa's lap and then he just stared at him for 5 minutes. Got out of line... he wanted to go back again... more staring.

[Suzanne]

I love it.
I tried to talk the girls into letting me have their pic w/ Santa this year...you would have thought I asked them to walk through the mall naked. the groans!!!!

[San Diego Momma]

I've got a thing about mall Santas. And I know it's my own neuroses talking...but I find them creepy. I always imagine them going home to a fifth of gin and carton of smokes after their shift.

[stephanie (bad mom)]

So true. The kids only went to see Santa a few times, and that was at our local drugstore (free and never a line), before deciding letters would suffice.

[Manic Mommy]

I have no illusions that it's about them. I have all the Santa pictures since HRH was born displayed at Christmas. I figure I'm due a little payback.

[Fannie]

We have a couple of cute ones and a couple of scremaers. Isn't this some parenting rite of passage?

[Angie @ KEEP BELIEVING]

We go to Santa when we assume he won't be bombarded. Unfortunately, as you read in our post, we also apparently choose to see Santa when he takes a one hour pee break.

KEEP BELIEVING

[Grandy]

I was always grateful for Santa at the old company Christmas parties (not the ones like I just mentioned over at my blog). ;)

[Kellan]

Cute - French for boredom - tee hee!!

Have a great week - Kellan

[kcinnova]

*grin*
We only saw Santa when he was at dh's family/work party. The screaming baby pictures were the cutest! (Does that make me a baby mommy?)