Santa came to visit...and the children cried.

To be more accurate, the children screamed in terror and clutched their mothers for dear life.

Why, oh why, do we do this to our kids?

There were happy moments, though. This one wee baby, who was all dolled up for the occassion was all smiles for Santa and such a ham for all the cameras. So cute. And then the children started to come around and we all laughed and clapped and had good fun. And by we, I mean the adults. The other day my co-worker and I were talking about how Christmas is for the children and how Christmas is no fun without them. But that's exactly it, isn't it? It's no fun for us, the adults, without children there. We spend so much time and money to make Christmas "perfect" for the wee ones, but they would often be happy enough to just play with the box!