re: #19 Alouette

My kids were such monsters. They told the gentile kids down the block “the parents buy your presents!”

They also had the notion that Santa was Jesus as an old man.

They were indeed!

I didn’t have a problem with Christmas, mostly because (I guess) we got the 8 presents. Although I always wondered why I was being envied by my Christian friends. If there’s 12 days of Christmas, didn’t they get 12 presents? And we got only a measly 8!

No, Santa wasn’t an issue for me, but the Easter Bunny was. Every year, I’d say to my mom, “Are you SURE we don’t believe in the Easter Bunny??” Solid chocolate bunnies. I would have traded every Hanukah gift for one.