Yesterday was a big day in my family. My sister had to tell Olivia that Santa Claus wasn’t real. To say Olivia didn’t take that well would be an understatement. A lot of you have seen Olivia on the video chats before and she’s quite the observant one. However, she was completely in the dark on the whole Santa thing. She’s starting 5th grade next year, and in the course of a recent conversation with one of her friends, the topic of Santa got brought up, her friend said, “You still believe in Santa?,” Olivia said yes, the friend actually went along with it, but once my sister was told the story, she felt it was time to tell her. And that’s when the waterworks came in. Olivia is kinda of like me in that she has a lot of questions about things, and this was no different. She didn’t understand where the presents came from, how she got things on her Xmas list if there wasn’t a Santa, the Elf on the Shelf phenomenon, … Continue reading →