"He knows if you've been bad or good."

Today while cleaning up before lunch I noticed that someone had gotten a hold of a permanent marker and wrote Abby on one of my dining room chairs! Abby was out with Charlie running errands and when they returned I showed both of them. I simply asked if either of them new who had written on the chair. Abby said it wasn't her. So I asked her if she knew if anyone else knew how to write her name. She said that I did. I looked at her, she must have seen it in my face, because I honestly did not know what to say next. She broke down, "I did it!" While eating lunch I asked "Abby, when did you write on the chair." "The day we saw Santa, and he didn't know." While Jack may need tag team parenting, Abby requires a complete game plan. Often we have to take a "time out" and create a game plan. That is what I did. Charlie and I decided that we would have to tell Santa about the chair, I text-ed him (I bet you didn't know Santa texts.) But you know what Santa already knew, and he also wanted me to remind Abby to make better choices.