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Santa
Does Santa bring the big presents at your house? I feel like my bigger gifts as a kid came from Santa, but I may be remembering wrong. My mom told me that Santa wrapped stuff at our house, and I would have sworn that he didn't.
Anyhow, we're not getting DS much this year--one big gift and a couple of smaller ones. It seems like his big gift should come from Santa, but I'm reluctant to give all the credit to the big guy as opposed to an awesome present from Mommy and Daddy. So Santa may be bringing some fairly ordinary gifts this year.
What do you/did you do?
Re: Santa
DD -- 5YO
DS -- 3YO
I have nothing against Santa and the kids know who he is but we really don't talk about him much or make a big deal. They get one small gift from Santa under the tree and that's it.
My brother and I always got one gift from Santa and if it was a big one, we shared it.
I bust my butt to get Christmas together. No way am I giving all the credit to Santa.
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To be frank...
At this age the kids don't really pay attention to who something came from.
It's an unwrapping free for all.
They don't read gift tags nor do they care - they just want AT IT!!
We don't say who anything is from as DH is big on NEVER lying to the kids (and that includes outright lies about Santa). When they ask we say "who do you think it might be from?" (unless it's from Grandma, etc) and then let it drop.
Total score: 6 pregnancies, 5 losses, 2 amazing blessings that I'm thankful for every single day.
For us it's really about what they ask for from Santa. This year they both asked for games and a couple other small things so those will come from Santa. The train table and wooden train sets will come from us.
It really doesn't bother me to have the bigger gift come from Santa sometimes.
Holy cow, we're going to have a little sister!!
The big gift comes from Santa. I don't mind if he gets all the credit in the world.
I would much rather see her get super excited that Santa remembered than her to specifically say thank you to me, so I don't much care.
We are a big santa believing household, and probably that's why. We've gone to see him, written letters and taken him to the mailbox at Macy's, made him special milk and cookies plates at the ceramic place, and have the magic reindeer feed ready to go. And yeah, we'll be leaving foot prints and all that good stuff. He's a big celebrity around here.
DD doesn't have much of a choice but to know who gave her what. She'll have Christmas Day to play with her stuff, but on the 26th it all goes away until she writes thank you notes or in her case draws thank you pictures, and makes thank you videos for the person who gave her stuff. I'm mean.
In my family, big gifts come from Mom & Dad, smaller fun stuff comes from Santa. In DH's family, big gifts come from Santa. Actually, in DH's family Santa brings drug-store sample-size toiletries- the other SIL's and I joke that Santa thinks our personal hygiene needs some work!
DS 09/08