Completed all Santa tasks...

I just finished eating the cookie that was my reward for staying up later than Todd and Luc. I waited about 15 minutes after I was certain they were asleep to go into stealth mode and remove the stockings from above their heads and retreat to my room to fill them. The hardest part was putting the filled stockings back on the hooks without waking them up. I got Luc a kaleidoscope for his stocking and all the little beads in it made all kinds of tinkly little noises as I tried to get the loop of the stocking back around the little hook.
It would have been much easier if they would have just slept in their own room, in their own beds. But they are on opposite ends of the couch just hoping to get a glimpse of the old man when he arrives.
The whole idea of Santa is so magical, that I want them to believe. I hate to lie to them, but my Mom told me there was no Santa when I was in kindergarten or first grade. (I know for sure that I did not believe in first grade, but I can't remember if that was the first year or second.) I just want my children to be children as long as they can. I want them to wonder and feel the magic; even if that means lying to them. I don't know, but I am fairly certain this will be the last year that Todd will believe. He is nine and in the fourth grade. He has doubts, but he also still wants to believe. We went to a Christmas party at the VFW hall that Todd's sister works at last weekend, and we knew Santa would be coming. Todd Jr kept glancing back to the entrance way every time we heard anything that might indicate Santa was there. When Santa did arrive, just seeing the look on Todd's face was great...
Fall classes are over, and Winter classes are soon to begin. My grades posted yesterday. Economics-A, Business Law-A, Federal Tax Accounting-A, Intermediate Accounting I-B+. Eh. I was .21% away from an A-. The grading in that class sucked. I mean, I work hard for my grades and I wouldn't complain if I had not worked hard enough to achieve an A, but this teacher assigned a bunch of writing assignments that were worth a lot of points and then didn't grade very fairly. I should have had an A, but I would have been okay with an A-. This B+ pisses me off. So, after 3 straight semesters of 4.0 gpa's, this semester was 3.8. Not bad, but not what I worked for. On the bright side, though; I will receive both my accounting certificate and my advanced accounting certificate in the mail within the next three weeks. I will be framing them as though they were my degree, which by the way I will have in April. I've worked for these suckers!!