Woman & Home South Africa

ROLLING back the YEARS...

‘Mom, why does Santa use the same wrapping paper as us?’

Author Debbie Johnson’s children are all grown up now – but that doesn’t mean she’s changing a single thing about Christmas...

“When he was little – perhaps four – my son was so convinced of the existence of Santa, in all his magical glory, that he asked for a whale. Yes, a whale – although he wasn’t fussy about the colour, to be fair. I asked gently where the whale might live, in our three-bedroom house in the suburbs, and he explained the whale would live in the water pipes. Silly me.

Luckily, by the

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