As we all know, Santa flies in with his reindeer and creeps into the house and puts presents in the stockings and under the tree. At our house, we don't have a chimney for Santa to slide down, so we've arranged a way for Santa to come through the front door. We have a magic key we've made, but more on that later.
Because Santa comes in the front door, he lands his sleigh in the front yard and leaves the reindeer out there while he's inside. Because we want to make sure that the reindeer have enough energy to get Santa to all the different homes of all the different children, we make reindeer food for them to snack on while Santa's in our house. The food is nothing more than delicious, nutritious oatmeal with some sprinkles for that extra sugar kick that reindeer enjoy.
Here's the kids around the coffee table getting ready to mix together the food (and before you ask- yes, Jen shaved a christmas tree in to the side of Gabe's mohawk):
As you can see, getting the right proportion of oats to sprinkles is very serious business:
After the mix is just right, the kids take it out into the front yard and sprinkle it all over the grass for the reindeer:
Now as we all know, people can't leave their houses unlocked anymore, but Santa also needs to find a way into the house. After years of talking this over with Santa, we invented a magic key that we can hang on our front door. The key works like any other key-- it unlocks the door so Santa can get in. But it's magic because it only works for Santa. If anyone else tried it, it would just seem like a useless paper key that wouldn't even fit in the lock. Here's Max hanging the key on the front door:
As you can see, he's very proud of his work:
But we realize you can't just feed the reindeer and not leave something for Santa. The way we figure it, all the other kids just leave plain old cookies and milk. And while I'm sure these cookies are delicious and the milk is filling, he's eventually going to get sick of even the world's greatest cookies when he gets to forty-seven-thousandth house. So we want to leave him something special: Pigs in a Blanket. Oh yeah.
It's a family effort and everyone helps roll up the "Lil Smokie" sausages in the crescent rolls:
Even Jack gets to help with some assistance from Connor:
Look at how seriously these kids take this:
But obviously you can't drink milk with pigs in a blanket. We leave Santa the perfect beverage compliment-- an ice cold Dos Equis. Here's the final product ready and waiting for Santa:
I wish I could have participated more this year in the preparations, but... you know... I've had some complications this year:
Merry Christmas, everyone!
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