...he would scurry back to the peaceful island of Sodor as fast as the track could carry him!
You see, Thomas is a piñata...
...and there is an eager soon-to-be-six-years-old boy who, with the help of his older brother, excitedly stuffed Thomas full of candy and bubble gum yesterday...
...but who is even more eager to de-stuff him. In other words, hit, break, damage, mutilate, tear asunder, utterly destroy him. All for the sake of sugar.
What a strange tradition it is to whack a piñata, but I'm not sure my boys would consider a birthday complete without it.
Poor, poor Thomas. Happy, happy boys. ;-)
Yikes... I don't think we want to "connect" with the history of the Pinata practice and the spilling forth of a god's favor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi%C3%B1ata
ReplyDeleteAhh... the pope came to the rescue again, and transformed the Pagan ritual into a Christian one..."from Pope Sixtus V the churches were given permission to hold what were called "misas de aguinaldo", which later became the posadas. It was at these masses that were held in the days leading up to Christmas that the friars introduced the piñata." And the tradition 7 pointed star pinata represented the 7 deadly sins. What are those sins anyway... let us see.
ReplyDeleteAhhh... wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy, and gluttony..... But Thomas is a very useful train?
ReplyDelete::shakes head:: sugar. it's quite the thing among kids these days... ;)
ReplyDeleteThomas! I can't believe we never had a "Thomas" birthday party for Peter. He was quite a big fan. When we gave away all our VHS tapes to his baby cousin, he parted with Barney and Elmo, but he still wanted to keep Thomas...just in case.
ReplyDeleteI never considered how odd a pinata was until after Peter's "Blue's Clues" party when he was 2 and we had just whacked poor Blue to death!
How hard it would be to destroy a beloved train. I bet the candy will make it easier.
ReplyDeleteoo no.. poor Thomas!!
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