Santa Who? Santa You?

My 11 yr old daughter, soon to be 12, finally admitted knowing this Santa thing is a hoax. Before I tell the how and when, here's a little background... I have been running around jumping through hoops for years, trying to keep the lie alive. Making the situation worse, her birthday happens to be 6 days after Xmas. I would wrap her gifts from Santa in "special paper", complete with different bows and ID cards from the other gifts under the tree, just to make sure she didn't guess I was really Santa before I was ready. Sending gifts to relatives houses, leaving them in the trunks of friends... never enough time in a single parents day when the holidays roll around. Last year, her dad said he wanted one more year for her to believe. Yeah right!! You really think this girl, the one who loses a tooth, waits a week to put it under her pillow at your house - just so she can squeeze more $ out of you, doesn't know Santa is fake? That girl's no fool, she's known for years!

So here's how it went down:

Last year, "Santa" got her a digital camera. About couple months ago, my mom borrowed her camera for work since she was up here and didn't have hers with her, and mine... well that's another story. Anywho, months go by and I asked my mom if she was going to send the camera back to her, since she lives out of town. It was never coordinated, and for whatever reason, my mom decides just to give my daughter the money to buy a new one. Cool, I didn't really like the other one anyway, and hey, I was in a hurry when I bought it, ok?? Over a period of a week, I keep sending my daughter links to cameras that I think will work and you know what? That little chick is picky!! She keeps telling me she doesn't like this one cuz of the color, and that one doesn't have all the features... say what? Yes, I realize me being somewhat of a tech geek myself caused this, but come on now! You're 11, what features do you need... really?? We decide on a cute little red camera, 10 megapixel and comes with all the features she can handle.

Last week my mom came up again, and she was at the house and my daughter shows her the camera she got. I'm telling my mom about one of the features, and ask my daughter to hand me the camera.

"No." she says.

"Gimme the camera, I paid for it." I say.

"No, Nana paid for it."

So I say, "I paid for the original camera this one is replacing."

To which my daughter responds, "I thought you said Santa got that camera."

I know what you're thinking... she got me. But wait, I'm ready to call a spade a spade... let her know the truth, or at the very least, stop jumping through hoops and let her come to whatever conclusion she wants. I'm done trying to cover this up.

"Girl, quit playin, you know I'm Santa!"

Hahaha!! None of us can stop laughing. Then I tell her that's she's known for a while and she just giggles and says "Yeah."

Gotta love that super cutie :)

Fantasy Update

I know you've all been waiting with bated breath... did she win?? Heck yes!! I love it. However, as with any situation, there's usually an upside and a downside. The upside is that yes, I did beat him in our week 6 match up and took over 1st place. Bragging rights for a week baby! Yep, you guessed it, that my friends is the downside, after half my roster was either injured or on a bye for week 7, I got throttled! I am most displeased with this, as I am now in 3rd place in 2 of my fantasy leagues. Romo needs to make sure that pinkie is ready to go come mid-November, or I simply won't be able to compete. I need my boys to finish the year with a bang - yes, I mean post season!

COWBOYS BABY!!

Phuckery...

I'm a competitive person by nature, couple that with a love of sports, specifically football and you have a girl with not just 1, but 3 fantasy football teams. This is my 3rd year playing, my first year having no clue what I was doing I was shocked to discover I had indeed come in 2nd in my league. Closely followed by irritation in that had I known I was in the championship game, I would changed my lineup and probably won the whole thing with a minor adjustment since I only lost by a margin of a few points...

Being who I am, I can't just let someone talk trash and not do whatever possible to take him off his #1 perch in the league. I may be ahead in points, however the fantasy football Gods have smiled upon him and bestowed him with a tie in last weeks match up, leaving me in the #2 position. Until Monday nights game, I was in first place in this league for the first time since the season started. He congratulated me, then 2 minutes later, notified me of his tie and resurgence back to 1st place. A tie??? Really???

Our teams go head to head this week. How fitting is this? My fave team, Dallas Cowboys, travel here to take on the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday. Of course I have Romo as my QB and who does he have, none other than Kurt Warner.

May the best woman win!! ;)

COWBOYS!!!!