Boone was misbehaving just now, so I faked a call to the North Pole. I told him the hold music was Mannheim Steamroller. It worked.

Since I recently posted that my boys purposefully screw up pictures, I should not have been surprised Boone insisted on making a fish face while sitting on Santa’s lap.

raisingbabyboy:

such a good idea!

oursarah:

Yes, yes. I know it’s early, but I want to get a head start on this and give people plenty of time to join. If you would like to join in on the Secret Santa for Christmas 2011, please note the following:

1. To register, please send an email to sarah.blakebrough@plymouth.ac.uk, with your full name, Tumblr URL and address.
2. The amount you should spend on a gift is £5-10 (Australia: $7.50-15, USA/Canada: $8-16).
3. I will be enlisting the help of a very dear friend, who I trust completely, to pick names out of a hat, and send the emails with details of you are buying for. This is simply so that I do not know who is buying for me, or anyone else for that matter. He will only see your address once, and after that, never again.
4. I won’t be using a survey to determine the kind of thing everyone likes. When you’re given your person to buy for, you should just deduce their interests from their blog. If you cannot, then buy a gift that anyone would like.
5. You should remain secret, that’s the whole point :)
6. You must be happy to send overseas, as I cannot guarantee I will get an even amount of people from any given country.
7. This is for the parenting community only, to reduce the risk of creepers ;) however, I will include the nannies among us.
8. I will be checking your Tumblr before I enter you, to make sure you are legit.

If you have any questions, please go ahead and ask. Please reblog if you want to get the word out :)

Last call, I’ll be asking my friend Matt do draw the names for me on Friday evening.

Awesome! I’m in.

Whoever gets me, I’ve always wanted a gorilla suit… But if you actually find one for $16, don’t send it to me. Who knows where it’s been?

prettymess:

mrsfeisty:

I used to be one of them.

I was bitter. I was hateful. I was smug.

I see so many of you with the same fucking attitude.

Like the 7 year old that finds out Santa isn’t real and has to hastily tell all his friends. Just to be a dick.

So yeah, some of you are dicks. Work on it.

What she said. Especially the Santa part. Assholes ruining it for everyone.

Wait. There’s no Santa? Then, who’s the old guy whose lap I sit on every December?

(via anotherprettymess)