But we don't have a chimney!

This was said with a 'duh' kind of tone.  Ben had drawn a lovely picture of santa in the sky above our house, in his sleigh, complete with reindeers.  He explained what he'd drawn..."...and here's Santa's grabber, so he can reach down and put the presents straight into our house through the window...."  "But Santa comes down through the chimney" I explained patiently.  "But we don't have a chimney" replied Ben, also rather patiently.....Oh yeah, I forgot about that.  Well, actually we do have a chimney. A fake, for show chimney.  I don't expect Santa would have any luck trying to shimmy down it though.  Luckily Ben has designed him a grabber then.

On another note, I had an interesting exchange with Jasmine the other week.  Ben was getting ready for his weekly Saturday morning match when Jasmine came upstairs and announced that she wanted to be a football coach when she grows up.  She then asked me if football coaches earn a lot of money....I told her I wasn't sure but I think they probably do.  I asked her why she wanted to know.  "Because I want to be rich!" she declared.  Intrigued, I asked her why she wanted to be rich.  "So I can buy lots of clothes!" she replied.  I had to laugh.  That sumd Jasmine up perfectly.  Equal parts rough and tumble tomboy and girly girl.  I love it!