[conservative cat]

No, I would never dip my 13 year old son into Lourdes, either. Actually, there was an essay about that a few years ago...or maybe it was in a Chicken Soup book. A woman took her special needs son to Lourdes and then decided he didn’t need healing...and that was the miracle that happened at Lourdes.

For all the challenges, I do have to say that there are some huge benefits to not having a typical teenage boy in the house! (But I didn’t dodge much of a bullet, because God rewarded me with three girls to make up for it. LOL) And yes at the Halloween and Christmas. He always knows what he wants to be that year at Halloween to the detriment of his poor sewing grandma. (Last year was an elephant..for a 5’4 12 year old!) And of course, Santa still exists!

[4yearlurker]

Oh yeah,Santa still brings the Christmas presents to out house also. A local small town post office has a special mailbox they set up in the lobby for “Santa Express” letters. Just drop a letter in (IE Xmas list!) and Santa will send you one back telling you that he will do what he can and that he knows you have been good this year. One of the guys in the PO does this on his own for the kids. A nice piece of the old town Christmas past.