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“Vaaderkarsfees ek is lief vir jou ek vas baie soet ek is ian ek wil baie graag `n remote control  kar he en `n handskoen wat 3 verskillende ligies in `n paar swetpakbroekies`n psp henk wil `n batman hemp he en `n supeman speelding”

To translate the above in English it will probably read something like this … “Father Christmas, I’m Ian - I love you and wasn’t naughty during the past year.  My request for presents include a remote control car, a pair of gloves with 3 different colored lights in it, a couple of sweaters, and/or a PSP.  And for Henk, my brother, he would like a Batman T-Shirt and a Superman toy”.

This is my 7 year old son’s Christmas list to Santa.  With his initial attempt, he also noted to Santa where can buy the toys (all from Reggies, of course).  I tried to explain to him that he must at least tell Santa how much he loves him and how good he was during the year etc etc.  Eventually I had my son in tears because the letter to Santa wasn’t fun anymore.  He turned to the computer and “composed” his own letter to Santa.  Even though it’s Afrikaans, the spelling was just to sweet.  Of course his initial attempt had the remote control car in aswell, but without Stii’s help, it was spelled “remode kandrol kar”.  The “kandrol” part caused a lot of fun in our house …

Needless to say, this letter must be posted to Santa ASAP (I think we must create an e-mail address for Santa … much easier).

Kids being kids … putting what they want/need/desire, out there and firmly believe  that it will come true.  We (grown ups) need to steal some of their Christmas spirit and ask from God what we want.  We want happiness, fulfillment, more time for this/that etc etc etc the list will go on and on and on.  Being like a kid, demands you to think about the present time only.  Tomorrow is not a problem yet because it hasn’t happened yet. I can promise you, if I ask Ian to do his Santa list tomorrow, it will be a different list altogether (except maybe for the PSP … we’re not going to get out of that one easily).  We need to think and feel like kids again.  Stop worrying about tomorrow, because you can’t change anything about tomorrow’s problems.  The problem with grown ups is that we are quite willing to ask God the things we need/want, but in the back of our heads we are already making Plan B’s “just in case …”.  Sorry, it doesn’t work that way - If you ask, you MUST believe like my 7 year old believes.  He believes that he will get each and every toy on his wish list (and the PSP of course…).  When he wrote his list there wasn’t a Plan B with a back up list.

PS:  Having second thoughts about the PSP - I’m sure Stii is behind this one!!!