Letters to Santa

It was a slow Monday, which makes sense, since it's the first Monday of the season.  BUT.  Monday mornings are the best.  First of all, it's a nice breather after the hustle of the weekend.  AND Peppercorn and Shortcake are on together along with Mr. Claus and Santa loves teasing Shortcake, but it's in that special way she misses on the weekends.  And then Shortcake saw Cider and caught up on all the things.  He told her he does not do a pep talk with the Village elves in the mornings, which is good because Shortcake tried it once it was a disaster.  She decided she could not strawboss like Cider, however inspiring he may be.

Housekeeping vacuumed the dressing room!  This may not seem exciting, but there is something very satisfying to see a clean floor.

Treetop had a balloon tied to his apron today.  He named it Branch.

Peppercorn was showing off her accent abilities, from Jamaican to Irish to Scottish.  But Shortcake didn't get the memo, so she said "Peppercorn, that Jamaican accent doesn't sound Jamaican."  And Peppercorn exclaimed, "I was doing Scottish, Shortcake, how could you not tell?" as if she had been brutally betrayed and then threw something to the floor in a fit.

It was hilarious.  (It may have lost something in the telling.)

Anyway, here's some letters to Santa:

"I love you Stant Claus"


"I want a big lego."

The note at the bottom is what gets Shortcake.  She apologizes for sassing her parents. Not Shortcake.  The child who wrote the letter.


Alright.  Clearly, this is an (English) parent writing for their almost 3 year old son.  Probably the son was dictating as Shortcake does not think an adult would voluntarily write "big big crazy big ladder."  BUT.  Shortcake does not think the child did his own coloring.  That is not the coloring of an almost three-year-old.  Shortcake says that as a connoisseur of children's drawing.  Clearly, the adult also did the drawing.  Honestly.  If the adult wanted to color so badly, they could have just colored a picture and sent it to Santa on the adult's behalf.  They didn't need to color a Christmas tree and send it accompanying a child's list.  Shortcake felt the letter misrepresented its sender.