Your list is perfect. Might I add for the "Fauci and Gates in prison with no possibility of parole. Ever" to include "and no contact with any outside people". Because my fear is that they'd still commit their evil maniacal plans by doling out the duties to others.
My children are 11 years apart. My daughter was very much like how you describe yours. I still have all of her letters too. My son (the younger one) is very analytical. At just 4 or 5 years old, he wanted to know why the Santa in one mall looked so different from the one at the other mall. And why is there a Santa at this store AND at this other store at the same time (he can't be in 2 places at once!). And how is it possible for one man to visit every single person on earth in one night? Yes, at 4 or 5 years old these were the questions he asked. My daughter just ran with it all and squealed with glee whenever she saw Santa anywhere, up until she was about 10 years old, maybe even older. My son? He looked at every Santa with skepticism. <sigh> He's 15 now and still as skeptical as ever and still analyzes things to death (to the point that we have to tell him to just STOP sometimes. It can be quite exhausting). I think I need to go dig out my daughter's old Santa letters (my son always refused to write them - he said if Santa was real, he would know what he wanted. Seriously. He sometimes sucks the joy out of everything) and relive that magic. My daughter is married now and I'm anxiously awaiting her to give me a grandchild (ok, she's only been married for 2 months but still...) so I can relive it all over again.
Hilarious! My oldest once wrote a two page note to the Tooth Fairy ("were you born a tooth fairy or did you pursue this career intentionally? what do you do with all of the teeth? how big are you and how do you carry the teeth when you fly? do you have a name?"). OFC the tooth fairy wrote her back--but at the end, she was like, "I never have time to respond to notes because I get so many, but yours was especially sweet" JUST IN CASE SHE WANTED A TOOTH FAIRY PEN PAL AIN'T NOBODY GOT TIME FOR THAT HAHAHAHAHA)
OMG Yes!! My daughter did the same thing! And yes, I also wrote her back, which was a huge mistake because then she expected a note every time! I finally had to do the same thing and tell her the tooth fairy was too busy. She majored in marketing and journalism. Shocking, I know. :D
Mention of the tooth fairy always reminds me of my first son’s first lost tooth. He was trying to fit the tooth back into his mouth when he dropped it down the drain. Oh no! He was crushed because it meant the tooth fairy wouldn’t visit. Well, he totally ‘misunderestimated’ ( 😉) the tooth fairy’s resourcefulness. A few days later he received a letter from said fairy who explained she’d found the tooth, and being an expert on teeth, she recognized it as his and was sending his tooth reward in the mail. And next time, be careful, because she couldn’t break the rules like this very often.
@Patti F Good news and bad news. Bad news is your son's condition is known as "engineering." The good news is he'll have a happy productive life making things easier for everyone else, even the clueless and the ungrateful. (Incidentally we don't call it "sucking the joy out of everything"; we call it "problem-solving.") Merry Christmas to your (lucky-duck) family!
The boy was… an afterthought which made me especially attuned to him, somehow?
Both girls mostly squealed through Christmas with reckless abandon, though the one is on video every year removing the hugging arms of Santa. Deep down, she knew it was a little weird to be sitting in a stranger’s lap.
The little engineer, now getting his masters at GA TECH, deeply questioned things like reindeer flight, pulled drawers out of armoires at various lengths to make steps to the top of said armoire, and was a perfectionist at Halloween clearly stating the PERFECT Donald Duck Costume (seriously, Disney Theme Park material) was NOT perfect because the FEET were inferior, due to me making them out of poster board. “MOM, why aren’t they orange rubber FINS, at least? Ducks can’t swim with PAPER FEET.”
When a schoolmate broke the news to my daughter that Santa’s not real, she asked me if that was true. I asked her if she thought a fat guy could slide down all the chimneys in one night to deliver gifts, and she hung her head and said, “No. I guess that means the Easter bunny’s not real either.” So I asked if she thought a rabbit could lay eggs. (We had a rabbit.). She said no, but then looked up and asked, “Would it be ok if I just believed in them a little longer?” I laughed and told her she could believe in them as long as she wanted to.
I love your Christmas want list! Maybe not #19 so much lol. I would also add to it that any government representative caught lying automatically serves minimum 2yrs jail time. Merry Christmas Jenna to you and your family and all your readers! 🎄🥂
I love your list and would substitute #19 with exit from WHO. I particularly like #1. Merry Christmas and we’ve got grandkids (9, 7, and 4 years old) coming 12/26 for 9 days. Wish me luck!❤️🎄
Merry Christmas Jenna and Jenna Groupies! Holy Santa, I can't wait until my kids can write those super cute lists for Santa. We're definitely saving those! Thank you for sharing Jenna. 🤗
I think all of us agree with everything on your Christmas list. Here are some of my own:
1) Everyone involved with Operation Plandemic needs to be held accountable. There was no pandemic.
2) Doctors and Policitians need to start wearing corporate logos like Nascar racers so we know who really controls them.
3) Digital IDs or any form of a national digital ID needs to be made illegal.
4) Stop taxing our income and our capital gains. Our money is our money. It is not to be used for endless wars and further oppression.
5) Advertising of drugs via television commercials and advertisements of any sort needs to stop.
6) Censorship on large platforms like YouTube, X, Instagram, Meta, etc needs to be deemed illegal.
7) Everyone involved with Epstein's list needs to be properly investigated and promptly jailed.
8) The CIA, NSA, and other alphabet agencies need to be dissolved. They operate in the dark with absolutely no accountability.
9) Every meeting that government officials and corporate executives of public companies attend need to be on the public record, including a full recording and transcript.
10) Our educational systems need to be completely revamped. No one should have to go into a quarter million dollars in debt to invest in a career that will benefit themselves and society. Education like knowledge should be free to the public.
11) Voting machines need to print a paper trail and ideally should be on some sort of immutable block chain that everyone can track.
12) The internet needs to be decentralized. The centralization of control and power is why we are in this mess in the first place.
I can go on forever, but I have to stop somewhere. Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and everything in between!
It's not clown ice, it's Clarice... Rudolf's girlfriend. Had she just watched the Christmas Special? Love your list and hope you/we get at least some of them. For us, Christmas came on November 5th. Go MAGA!
I think others added the ones ones I'm thinking of. Except get rid of the "non-profit" formed by UK folks to suppress our free speech in America - can't remember the acronym right now but that's gotta go.
Enjoy your holidays - loved the photo with your adult daughter by the letters to Santa box!
May you get your heart's desire this Christmas, Jenna. My wish: someone special to spend Christmas with. It's been four years since my wife died, and I've spent all but one of those Christmases alone. Partly that's due to physical disabilities that make it hard and unpleasant for me to travel to my sister's house. But even at her house, I am still single, and it's no fun. Maybe put in a good word with Santa for me.
Bless you, Jenna, and thank you. Christmas joy and hope to you, Joe, and your darling daughters. I smiled when I saw the girls' Santa letters and lists you saved. Exactly like my parents. When they died, stuff saved from their kids' earliest childhood just seemed to explode out of every corner of the house they lived in for more than four decades. A wire sculpture I made my Dad in grade school sat his desk until he died. It's now on my dresser.
Your impressionable daughter wanted a "Clarice" whatever-that-was. Years later, upon hearing Joe Biden for the first time: "Is this the same 'Santa Claus' who brought me 'clown ice!?'"
This column made me tear up (teer) from the thought of the sheer volume of handwritten cute notes from our children I did not preserve. The few I have are precious. (I wonder where they are...)
I would add exit from WHO.
Yessssssssss!
Trump agrees exit WHO - day 1 I hope. Love your list Jenna! I just added a signed copy of Yankee Doodle Soup to my list.
AND kick the UN out of our country.
Done! Or I should be more accurate and say that both DJT and RFK Jr. have said it will be done on inauguration day!!! Boom!
Just read on Green info news! ❤️
Yup! I think that’s where I read it yesterday!
Ie Sayer Ji
Exactly what I was going to say!!!
I love your list .. and yes get rid of alphabet agencies. Please stop jabbing pregnant women. 🙌🏼
Amen Bro. 🙏🙏🙏
Love them all but I would add “an end to war in Ukraine and the Middle East” and safety for our incoming President!
and his DOGE team and all appointees! Even those who have stepped down; give ‘em a position somewhere!
and his DOGE team and all appointees! Even those who have stepped down; give ‘em a position somewhere!
Your list is perfect. Might I add for the "Fauci and Gates in prison with no possibility of parole. Ever" to include "and no contact with any outside people". Because my fear is that they'd still commit their evil maniacal plans by doling out the duties to others.
Facts!
And--from the 4th grade--whack their peepees!
And make absolutely sure they are up to date on their shots and boosters. Perhaps daily, you know, just to be "safe".
My children are 11 years apart. My daughter was very much like how you describe yours. I still have all of her letters too. My son (the younger one) is very analytical. At just 4 or 5 years old, he wanted to know why the Santa in one mall looked so different from the one at the other mall. And why is there a Santa at this store AND at this other store at the same time (he can't be in 2 places at once!). And how is it possible for one man to visit every single person on earth in one night? Yes, at 4 or 5 years old these were the questions he asked. My daughter just ran with it all and squealed with glee whenever she saw Santa anywhere, up until she was about 10 years old, maybe even older. My son? He looked at every Santa with skepticism. <sigh> He's 15 now and still as skeptical as ever and still analyzes things to death (to the point that we have to tell him to just STOP sometimes. It can be quite exhausting). I think I need to go dig out my daughter's old Santa letters (my son always refused to write them - he said if Santa was real, he would know what he wanted. Seriously. He sometimes sucks the joy out of everything) and relive that magic. My daughter is married now and I'm anxiously awaiting her to give me a grandchild (ok, she's only been married for 2 months but still...) so I can relive it all over again.
Hilarious! My oldest once wrote a two page note to the Tooth Fairy ("were you born a tooth fairy or did you pursue this career intentionally? what do you do with all of the teeth? how big are you and how do you carry the teeth when you fly? do you have a name?"). OFC the tooth fairy wrote her back--but at the end, she was like, "I never have time to respond to notes because I get so many, but yours was especially sweet" JUST IN CASE SHE WANTED A TOOTH FAIRY PEN PAL AIN'T NOBODY GOT TIME FOR THAT HAHAHAHAHA)
...wrote the woman who decided "I think I'll start one of those 'substack thingies'."
hahahahaha exactly ;)
Perfect, David!
OMG Yes!! My daughter did the same thing! And yes, I also wrote her back, which was a huge mistake because then she expected a note every time! I finally had to do the same thing and tell her the tooth fairy was too busy. She majored in marketing and journalism. Shocking, I know. :D
Mention of the tooth fairy always reminds me of my first son’s first lost tooth. He was trying to fit the tooth back into his mouth when he dropped it down the drain. Oh no! He was crushed because it meant the tooth fairy wouldn’t visit. Well, he totally ‘misunderestimated’ ( 😉) the tooth fairy’s resourcefulness. A few days later he received a letter from said fairy who explained she’d found the tooth, and being an expert on teeth, she recognized it as his and was sending his tooth reward in the mail. And next time, be careful, because she couldn’t break the rules like this very often.
@Patti F Good news and bad news. Bad news is your son's condition is known as "engineering." The good news is he'll have a happy productive life making things easier for everyone else, even the clueless and the ungrateful. (Incidentally we don't call it "sucking the joy out of everything"; we call it "problem-solving.") Merry Christmas to your (lucky-duck) family!
LOL! We've always told him he'd make a great engineer!
I’m glad I didn’t need to be the one to tell her.
We had 2 girls and a boy.
The boy was… an afterthought which made me especially attuned to him, somehow?
Both girls mostly squealed through Christmas with reckless abandon, though the one is on video every year removing the hugging arms of Santa. Deep down, she knew it was a little weird to be sitting in a stranger’s lap.
The little engineer, now getting his masters at GA TECH, deeply questioned things like reindeer flight, pulled drawers out of armoires at various lengths to make steps to the top of said armoire, and was a perfectionist at Halloween clearly stating the PERFECT Donald Duck Costume (seriously, Disney Theme Park material) was NOT perfect because the FEET were inferior, due to me making them out of poster board. “MOM, why aren’t they orange rubber FINS, at least? Ducks can’t swim with PAPER FEET.”
Now he’s majoring in AI, so…
When a schoolmate broke the news to my daughter that Santa’s not real, she asked me if that was true. I asked her if she thought a fat guy could slide down all the chimneys in one night to deliver gifts, and she hung her head and said, “No. I guess that means the Easter bunny’s not real either.” So I asked if she thought a rabbit could lay eggs. (We had a rabbit.). She said no, but then looked up and asked, “Would it be ok if I just believed in them a little longer?” I laughed and told her she could believe in them as long as she wanted to.
Those are the moments that make parenting worth it IMO. ;)
I love your Christmas want list! Maybe not #19 so much lol. I would also add to it that any government representative caught lying automatically serves minimum 2yrs jail time. Merry Christmas Jenna to you and your family and all your readers! 🎄🥂
Think if all the JOBS we’d create building extra jails to hold the legions of lying liars who lie!
Then the Obama law the legalized propaganda must be revealed. Add it to The List!
YESSSSSSSSS!
But! Wouldn't it be nice to be able to sport #19 if you wanted?? The idea is what counts.
Exactly what I was thinking (and I wouldn’t look good in any over the knee boots lol)
Wonderfully touching and funny. Thanks for what you do so well. Merry Christmas.
I love your list and would substitute #19 with exit from WHO. I particularly like #1. Merry Christmas and we’ve got grandkids (9, 7, and 4 years old) coming 12/26 for 9 days. Wish me luck!❤️🎄
NINE DAYS?!?! Enjoy (and good luck)! :)
And from LA😳
And Democrats 😳
I'm praying for you even now. Seriously, I am. Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas Jenna and Jenna Groupies! Holy Santa, I can't wait until my kids can write those super cute lists for Santa. We're definitely saving those! Thank you for sharing Jenna. 🤗
I think all of us agree with everything on your Christmas list. Here are some of my own:
1) Everyone involved with Operation Plandemic needs to be held accountable. There was no pandemic.
2) Doctors and Policitians need to start wearing corporate logos like Nascar racers so we know who really controls them.
3) Digital IDs or any form of a national digital ID needs to be made illegal.
4) Stop taxing our income and our capital gains. Our money is our money. It is not to be used for endless wars and further oppression.
5) Advertising of drugs via television commercials and advertisements of any sort needs to stop.
6) Censorship on large platforms like YouTube, X, Instagram, Meta, etc needs to be deemed illegal.
7) Everyone involved with Epstein's list needs to be properly investigated and promptly jailed.
8) The CIA, NSA, and other alphabet agencies need to be dissolved. They operate in the dark with absolutely no accountability.
9) Every meeting that government officials and corporate executives of public companies attend need to be on the public record, including a full recording and transcript.
10) Our educational systems need to be completely revamped. No one should have to go into a quarter million dollars in debt to invest in a career that will benefit themselves and society. Education like knowledge should be free to the public.
11) Voting machines need to print a paper trail and ideally should be on some sort of immutable block chain that everyone can track.
12) The internet needs to be decentralized. The centralization of control and power is why we are in this mess in the first place.
I can go on forever, but I have to stop somewhere. Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and everything in between!
*quickly adds Vee's entire list to own list*
Thanks for your brilliance and simply for being here! You make Jenna's Side a better place. :) Merry Everything! XO
I second the emotion.
#2!!!
Not sure about 10, but otherwise I agree. Revamped, yes, free, no.
It's not clown ice, it's Clarice... Rudolf's girlfriend. Had she just watched the Christmas Special? Love your list and hope you/we get at least some of them. For us, Christmas came on November 5th. Go MAGA!
* immediately adds all of the above to my own list 😝💕🎄
I think others added the ones ones I'm thinking of. Except get rid of the "non-profit" formed by UK folks to suppress our free speech in America - can't remember the acronym right now but that's gotta go.
Enjoy your holidays - loved the photo with your adult daughter by the letters to Santa box!
Tha's an ambitious list you've got there. I'd be thrilled with just #4:
"No fake alien invasion or nuke PSYOP, thankyouverymuch."
Merry Christmas!
May you get your heart's desire this Christmas, Jenna. My wish: someone special to spend Christmas with. It's been four years since my wife died, and I've spent all but one of those Christmases alone. Partly that's due to physical disabilities that make it hard and unpleasant for me to travel to my sister's house. But even at her house, I am still single, and it's no fun. Maybe put in a good word with Santa for me.
Oh Candace, if I had any strings I'd be PULLING THEM ALL SO HARD. You're welcome at my house any time. XOXO
Bless you, Jenna, and thank you. Christmas joy and hope to you, Joe, and your darling daughters. I smiled when I saw the girls' Santa letters and lists you saved. Exactly like my parents. When they died, stuff saved from their kids' earliest childhood just seemed to explode out of every corner of the house they lived in for more than four decades. A wire sculpture I made my Dad in grade school sat his desk until he died. It's now on my dresser.
Your impressionable daughter wanted a "Clarice" whatever-that-was. Years later, upon hearing Joe Biden for the first time: "Is this the same 'Santa Claus' who brought me 'clown ice!?'"
This column made me tear up (teer) from the thought of the sheer volume of handwritten cute notes from our children I did not preserve. The few I have are precious. (I wonder where they are...)
When I hear Clarice, all I can think of is silence of the lambs (*hides under desk)
Clarice was a stuffed animal.
Love your list! Including the boots! Thanks so much for keeping me sane by knowing I’m not alone out here in commiefornia. Merry Christmas!