Santa Lives!

(My mom’s school does a reading camp during the first part of their winter break. Due to its nature, the attending students are various grade levels. My mom, who is a firm believer that Santa exists as the spirit of unselfish giving, overhears a fourth grader telling a bunch of kindergartners and first graders that Santa doesn’t exist.)

Mom: “St. Nicholas really did exist! And I can prove it! With a birth date and everything.”

Fourth-Grader: “Yeah, right.”

(My mom fetches her laptop and pulls up the relevant information. His jaw nearly drops off. When she tells me about this later, she has the following to say.)

Mom: “Nobody destroys the faith of my babies.”