It's been our tradition in the last few years to dust off our copy the Muppet Christmas Carol the day after Halloween. It's my favorite Christmas movie, and Samuel is finally into it this year. Thomas, of course, is into whatever Sam is into. We have also spent a lot of time straightening out the logistics of what happens on Christmas Eve ("Mom, Rudolph will stay and play with me, right?" and "Why can't Santa just come in the front door?" etc.) So, when we were driving home from the store today (we have our best conversations in the car) and Sam thoughtfully started out, "so mom, on Christmas Eve..." I expected to answer some question regarding the Santa visit. Instead, he finished with "...ghosts in chains will appear in my room?" Huh?
Then I remembered the ghosts in a Christmas Carol. So, Sam thinks that's part of the deal. You set cookies out for Santa, carrots out for the reindeer, kiss mom and dad goodnight and then go to your room and wait for the ghosts to appear.
Me: (thinking I was reassuring him) "No, Sam. That's just a movie. Only Santa comes to visit on Christmas Eve."
S: (in real dismay) What??!!
Some children get disillusioned when they find there is not really a Santa. My kid gets disillusioned when he realizes that there is no such thing as Jacob Marley or the ghosts past, present or future. He has watched Nightmare Before Christmas a few times to prepare for our upcoming Disneyland trip, so maybe his Halloween/Christmas lines are blurred. It's probably a good time to confuse him still further by getting into the Nativity story.
Seriously though, go watch The Muppet Christmas Carol if you haven't seen it. It's awesome. We stepped it up a notch this year and bought the soundtrack!
4 comments:
Ahhhh, just tell him it is the Holy
Ghost (skeleton!!)
This rivals EJ's Killme.
jmk
I love this movie! My sister and I use you watch it in the middle of summer on school breaks.
That is our favorite movie. We have watched it since we lived in Princeton. In fact, I had the TAPE of it (remember tapes?). We were just saying YESTERDAY that we need to get the DVD and CD of it.... all our video recorders finally broke!
We will listen to that all the way to Disneyland!
We also have yet to buy a DVD of it. My boys get their hands on them and they all end up scratched. We need to get one for the trip though. There are only a few movies that I am willing to listen to over and over and none of them are in DVD form at the moment.
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