5:45 am, Christmas Day. The kids are awake together with running to encounter if Santa has come upward or not. From our bedroom, nosotros listen amazement together with joy: Santa came! Teddy bears, dolls, miniature skateboards, together with light-headed bandz...
"But where's the existent puppy?" asks Eliot.
This twelvemonth both children decided to pose alone i affair on their list: a puppy. They knew chances were slim but they figured if in that place was only ONE affair on the list...the pressure level on Santa would hold upward huge.
I accept noticed that most expats leaving Singapore accept caved in. Their children are deplorable most leaving but invariably overjoyed at the hope of a canine improver to the family: "we're going to hold upward getting a puppy when nosotros larn to Connecticut, Finland, England....(fill inward the blank)." This definitely sweetens the blow. Will accept to think this when the fourth dimension comes. My kids accept already pose 2 together with 2 together: "So, basically, when nosotros move, we're getting a puppy, right? So, when are nosotros moving...I intend I'm going to telephone phone him Buddy...."
Last night, on Christmas Eve, nosotros went to the children's mass, it was real interesting but afterwards the outset sixty minutes piece of cake became the second, a flake likewise long for kids. That, together with the fact that Eliot, asked inward a real loud vocalisation halfway through: "When is God coming?" made me experience slightly guilty. Either I'm non taking her to volume oft plenty or nosotros demand to become over the basics of Roman Catholicism. Soon.
On our means home, the picayune theologist pondered: "If God made everything, who made God?"
(Photo from a Christmas by when a feverish Eliot was every bit small-scale every bit Dora.)
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