That’s what Santa reminds me of. OK he doesn’t look anything like the Child Catcher… but I think they have the same aura around them.

And guess what… Nora feels the same.

She was OK with the Santa at nursery… but then she was surrounded by her friends so she must have felt safe.

But yesterday… she would not let me go. Not even for a minute… not even after we managed to coax her to give Santa a ‘high five’, she still had one arm wrapped firmly around my neck!

I’m fine with that as Christmas is not about Santa anyway and it’s not about getting big expensive toys. We will instead celebrate St Nikolaus day from now on… and Christmas will be a nice quiet day opening little presents that could fit under our tiny tree.