When Santa Gets It Almost Right

Lee has been coaching Clara about Santa quite a bit lately. She explains that you get to ask Santa for one thing, and that afterward he gives you a candy cane.

The other night in the car, she said "Clara, what are you going to ask Santa to bring you?"

"Candy," Clara said.

Lee explained that Santa already puts a truffle in your stocking (well at least at our house!), and that Clara should ask for something else that isn't candy. Perhaps, Lee suggests, Clara could ask for a whole bag of tigers.

Uh, oh, we think. We can't even find one replacement Tiger, much less a whole bag of them. She can't put it in Clara's head that she can ask for a bag of Tigers.

So I ask Lee, do you mean plastic tigers? No, no, she assures me. Stuffed Tigers.

But this must remind Lee of something else to tell Clara.

"Clara, Santa doesn't always get it quite right. Last year, I asked for a beating heart with a button on it. I meant a little red heart with a black button on the back that never ran out of batteries. And the one I got was much bigger and much fluffier! But, I'm always happy with what I get. "

Well, Lee, I said, Santa can't read your mind, so he just does the best he can with what you tell him.