Live Free Learn Free Blog » Visiting Santa <title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/wp-content/themes/thirteen/style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" /> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/feed/" /> <link rel="alternate" type="text/xml" title="RSS .92" href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/feed/rss/" /> <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom 0.3" href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/feed/atom/" /> <link rel="pingback" href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/xmlrpc.php" /> <style type="text/css"> </style> <link rel='archives' title='August 2007' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/08/' /> <link rel='archives' title='July 2007' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/07/' /> <link rel='archives' title='June 2007' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/06/' /> <link rel='archives' title='April 2007' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/04/' /> <link rel='archives' title='March 2007' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/03/' /> <link rel='archives' title='January 2007' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/01/' /> <link rel='archives' title='December 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/12/' /> <link rel='archives' title='November 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/11/' /> <link rel='archives' title='October 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/10/' /> <link rel='archives' title='September 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/09/' /> <link rel='archives' title='August 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/08/' /> <link rel='archives' title='July 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/07/' /> <link rel='archives' title='June 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/06/' /> <link rel='archives' title='May 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/05/' /> <link rel='archives' title='April 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/04/' /> <link rel='archives' title='March 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/03/' /> <link rel='archives' title='February 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/02/' /> <link rel='archives' title='January 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/01/' /> <link rel='archives' title='December 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/12/' /> <link rel='archives' title='November 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/11/' /> <link rel='archives' title='October 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/10/' /> <link rel='archives' title='September 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/09/' /> <link rel='archives' title='August 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/08/' /> <link rel='archives' title='July 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/07/' /> <link rel='archives' title='June 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/06/' /> <link rel='archives' title='May 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/05/' /> <link rel='archives' title='April 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/04/' /> <link rel='archives' title='March 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/03/' /> <link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml" title="RSD" href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/xmlrpc.php?rsd" /> </head> <body> <div id="headwrapper"> <div id="header"> <h1 id="title"><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog">Live Free Learn Free Blog</a></h1> </div> </div> <div id="wrapper"> <div id="content"> <div class="post" id="post-219"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/12/24/visiting-santa/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to Visiting Santa">Visiting Santa</a></h2> <p class="postdate"> December 24th, 2006 at 1:49 am (<a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/category/unschooling-life/" title="View all posts in Unschooling Life" rel="category tag">Unschooling Life</a>) </p> <div class="postentry"> <p>Kenzie went to see Santa the other day. We made sure to go before school let out for winter break, so the line wasn’t too terrible. Of course, while we stood there, next to several other children, looking at the cheesy, lifeless mall decorations and listening to the musack, Kenzie decided to start singing passages from his new favorite Christmas song, “The Pretty Little Dolly” by Mona Abboud.</p> <p>Spoken:<em>“Dear Santa Claus - My mommy and daddy said that if I was very good I could have whatever I wanted for Christmas. Well, I would like a DOLLY for Christmas. It is a very special dolly. I saw it advertised on television. In case you don’t know which dolly I mean, I will try to describe it to you.”</em></p> <p><em>The pretty little dolly can sit<br /> The pretty little dolly can stand<br /> She will even walk around the room<br /> If you take her hand!</em></p> <p><em>The pretty little dolly can turn<br /> The pretty little dolly can dance<br /> If you feed her water through a tube<br /> She’ll wet her pants!</em></p> <p><em>Close to fires<br /> She perspires<br /> If you give her a playful squeeze<br /> She will cough and belch and sneeze!</em></p> <p><em>Oh, the pretty little dolly’s so cute!<br /> The pretty little dolly’s so REAL!<br /> If you take her out into the sun, she burns<br /> And three days later she’ll peel!</em></p> <p><em>The pretty little dolly can sing<br /> The pretty little dolly can shout<br /> Hold her footsies high above her head<br /> And she passes out!</em></p> <p><em>The pretty little dolly can plead<br /> The pretty little dolly can beg<br /> And she screams in realistic pain<br /> When you break her leg!</em></p> <p><em>Heavy drinking<br /> Gets her stinking<br /> On her back you can turn a key<br /> And she goes through puberty!</em></p> <p><em>Oh, the pretty little dolly can wail<br /> The pretty little dolly can cry<br /> If you put a plastic bag around her head<br /> She’ll choke, turn purple, and DIE!</em></p> <p><em>So Santa.. remember your part…<br /> Don’t break a little girl’s heart…<br /> Don’t forget this Christmas the pretty little dolly<br /> Is the present you must leave<br /> Remember that, fat boy<br /> BRING THAT KID if you wanna see New Year’s eve!</em></p> <p>Needless to say, the children and parents around us got quite an earful. I’m fairly certain he also sang a few verses from Weird Al’s “Christmas at Ground Zero,” and I seem to recall discussing my favorite, “Let’s Have a Drug Free Christmas” by Tim Cavanagh. It wasn’t until we finished and were hunting for an Icee that it hit me: the people in line must have thought we were nuts! Thinking about it still makes me laugh.</p> <p>Anyway, while we didn’t buy the standard Santa photos ($25 per 8.5×11 sheet!), we did get a few good digital camera shots. These are my favorites:</p> <p><img alt="Kenzie-with-Santa.jpg" id="image218" src="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/Kenzie-with-Santa.jpg" /></p> <p><img id="image220" alt="Kenzie-with-Santa-2.jpg" src="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/Kenzie-with-Santa-2.jpg" /></p> <p>He asked Santa for books - lots of books: Greek mythology, Egyptian history, Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh. Santa promised to deliver. </p> </div> </div>  <h3 id="comments">1 Comment</h3> <ol id="commentlist"> <li id="comment-853"> <h4 class="commentauthor">Liz in Australia said,</h4> <p class="commentdate"> December 25, 2006 at <a href="#comment-853" title="Permanent link to this comment">5:33 pm</a> </p> <p>That’s hilarious. My daughter (9) got an MP3 player/clock radio thingy for Christmas, and insisted on taking it to the family gathering. The song she chose to show it off to relatives? Weird Al singing “The Night Santa Went Crazy” *g* </p> </li> </ol> <h3 id="postcomment">Post a Comment</h3> <form action="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/wp-comments-post.php" method="post" id="commentform"> <p> <input type="text" name="author" id="author" value="" size="28" tabindex="1" /> <label for="author">Name (required)</label> </p> <p> <input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="" size="28" tabindex="2" /> <label for="email">E-mail (required)</label> </p> <p> <input type="text" name="url" id="url" value="" size="28" tabindex="3" /> <label for="url"><abbr title="Uniform Resource Identifier">URI</abbr></label> </p> <p> <textarea name="comment" id="comment" cols="60" rows="8" tabindex="4"></textarea> </p> <p> <input name="submit" type="submit" id="submit" class="submit" tabindex="5" value="Submit Comment" /> <input type="hidden" name="comment_post_ID" value="219" /> </p> </form> </div> <div id="sidebar"> <ul> <li id="meta"> <h2>Meta</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/wp-login.php">Login</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/feed/" title="Syndicate this site using RSS">Entries <abbr title="Really Simple Syndication">RSS</abbr></a></li> <li><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/comments/feed/" title="The latest comments to all posts in RSS">Comments <abbr title="Really Simple Syndication">RSS</abbr></a></li> </ul> </li> <li id="search"> <form method="get" id="searchform" action="/blog/index.php"> <p> <input type="text" value="" name="s" id="s" /> <input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" class="submit" value="Search" /> </p> </form> </li> </ul> </div> <div id="footer"> <p> <a href="http://wordpress.org" title="Powered by Wordpress, state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform.">Powered by Wordpress</a> · Design by <a href="http://beccary.com" title="Theme designed by Beccary">Beccary</a> and <a href="http://weblogs.us" title="Theme sponsored by Weblogs.us">Weblogs.us</a> · <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer" title="This page validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional"><abbr title="eXtensible HyperText Markup Language">XHTML</abbr></a> · <a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer" title="This page validates as CSS"><abbr title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</abbr></a> </p> </div> </div>  <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"> var sc_project=605365; var sc_invisible=1; var sc_partition=4; var sc_security="d224bf47"; </script> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="http://www.statcounter.com/counter/counter.js"></script><noscript><a href="http://www.statcounter.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://c5.statcounter.com/counter.php?sc_project=605365&java=0&security=d224bf47&invisible=1" alt="free stats" border="0"></a> </noscript>  </body> </html>