Dear Satan,

I see that you have once again inhabited my son’s body.  You were very clever this time when you made the choice to start the takeover at a time that had absolutely no obvious catalyst.  We even thought that he might be sick for a couple of days, but you can’t fool us forever (sleep deprivation has made us stupid, but even we aren’t that stupid).  I would; however, appreciate it if you could move on to someone else’s body before Thanksgiving.  He’s running his first race that morning and it’s going to be a long day and I don’t have time for an exorcism.  I understand that you’re not really in the business of accommodation, you are The Devil after all, but I think it became pretty clear during your last month-long stay in our son’s body after our daughter was born that it wasn’t much fun for you, either.  Rumor has it that you’re pretty self-serving, so I think you must appreciate the fact that this isn’t the vacation spot it might have been for you at some point.  Hasn’t all that time spent in time-out taught you anything, yet?  Also — you may be Beelzebub, but I’m Shannon and I’m afraid that you’re no match for me at this point in my life:  I’m feeling a little like kicking some hiney and taking some names and you’re at the top of the list.  You’ve been warned.

Sincerely,

Shannon

2 thoughts on “Dear Satan,”

  1. For the first half of this post, I thought it was titled “Dear Santa” and was wondering why Santa had taken over Liam’s body and why you wanted to exorcise him.

  2. Now, Julie. Wouldn’t *you* want to exorcise a fat man who comes uninvited down your chimney from your toddler’s body?
    The fact that this post had nothing to do with Santa changes nothing.

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