Veronica went looking at Christmas lights with us last night. There are a set of houses that get featured on TV and stuff. One of them had musically coordinated flashing lights. She was delighted.

Then another one  is nearly as complicated, but it had a lot of toys on thr front yard.In their 2nd story window, they have  TV, and they play a video of santa looking out and being busy up there.

Veronica was convinced. “This is Santa’s house!” Then, she wondered. She asked me, “Is this Santa’s house?”

“Ask your father”

Chris said, “No Santa lives in the North Pole. That’s a TV, see.”

She looked a bit crestfallen. Then she said “Yknowhat? We need to drive to the NOrth Pole tomorrow and tell santa I want an ice cream maker.”