Get Your Santa On

I wouldn't call it a warm day, but at least some of the snow has melted. Taking garbage cans to the curb was risky business tonight, at least in terms of slip-and-fall potential. But I made it.

On Saturday we visited a real estate agent that I know to see Santa Claus. Every year, even this most dire of years in his industry, the agent and his partners hire a Santa Claus and a photographer, and invite former or potential clients with small children by. Ann was thrilled, Lilly didn't particularly care for it, but I asked her to pose one more time. So she did. She got some punch and cookies out of the deal.

This is a completely conventional way to engage with the Santa Claus character. Other people have other ways of doing it.