I almost killed Santa for our kids until a cool idea saved him.

My 10-year-old son was about three when I first decided I would kick Santa out of Christmas by telling him that St. Nick wasn’t real.

I don’t feel like that anymore but at the time I thought that you should not mix Santa and all the commercialism that’s attached to him with Jesus, the true reason for Christmas.  I didn’t think Christmas in and of itself was wrong but I just didn’t think the “celebration” part of it was even in the Bible to begin with. (more…)