I just went through this "dilemma" recently. My family have always LOVED christmas, the whole putting up the tree, decorating the house, presents and food but then a woman at work was almost in tears about 'lying' to her children and that made me think that I would be lying to my child too. But Christmas is magical and if you want to believe then I say let your imagination run wild. DH says I can explain it DD later so I am more than happy to do that in years to come but will gladly see her little smile and excitement of Santa arriving with presents in the meantime (although Trillian I think the one present is a good idea from Santa).
Amy, that is so cute.
Leasha, yeah, I'm thinking Santa might like a nice glass of riesling.
I seem to always peak too early with the Christmas excitement so by the time it comes around, I am almost over it. We took DD home on xmas eve last year so I am looking forward to really celebrating Christmas this year.
yep he come to our house too... DS is still a believer and I am dreading the day that he stops....
Santa even gave BHL a spud last year DS still laughs about it now and cant wait to see if he get more this year.... ATM the winkies will be getting about 3 spuds so they better improve greatly before the big man arrives....
DD recently asked me if I believed in the easter bunny and santa. I asked her why? then asked her if she believed in them, and why was she asking me that?
Turns out a friend at school told her mum that she didn't believe in the easter bunny, and she got no easter eggs, so if you don't believe you don't get presents!
I think she may be working it out, or have worked it out, but clever girl wouldn't say anything if she did LOL! She'd be working it for all the extra presents she could get. (My little budding entrepreneur, recently made biscuits with her grandma THEN sold them back to grandma!)
We leave milk out for santa and some biscuits or something else, last year it was fruit mince pies. We also leave some water for the reindeers and a carrot.
She also writes a letter to santa.
When she wakes the next morning, santa's food is usually gone, the reindeer have usually drunk all the water, but not all of the carrot/s, BUT you can see their teeth marks on the end of the carrot though! She absolutely loves that. Her letter is gone, and santa leaves one for her too. Last year he told DD that he had dropped by our house, and found that we weren't there, so he worked out we were at nanny's. Our dog barked at the reindeer, so he threw the ball for her a few times and gave her a bone.
My SIL is very Catholic, so Santa doesn't exist in their house - she explain St Nicholas to her kids, but all gifts are from the buyer. DH and I LOVE the magic of Christmas, and want for Santa to be a part of the magic for the Gremlin when it arrives - so it's going to be interesting having such different views on Santa. i guess by the time Gremlin is old enough to kinda get Santa, it will be 2010, and her youngest will be six by then, and can probably help to play the Santa game for the benefit of the bubba...
I am another that peaks too early when it comes to christmas. Our tree goes up when Santa comes to town for the Adelaide Christmas Pagent !! That happens around the first/2nd weekend in November. It is a tradition for a lot of Adelaide families for the tree to go up that day. But by the time Christmas rolls around the tree has been up for around 7 weeks and I am sick of looking at it, so it is usually pulled down on Dec 27th.
It also doesn't help that is is 8ft tall and really wide, so it has to sit in the kids play area. Last year I was in Melbourne for the Adelaide Christmas Pagent. When I spoke to mum (who was baby sitting my kids back in Adelaide) later that day, I asked her if she can put my tree up LOL. She didn't oblige.
We put our tree up religiously on 1st December EVERY year without fail!! I absolutely adore this time of year. We always put the tree up as a family (DH and I go to Mum and Dad's for theirs and vice versa) and we toast with champagne when the star goes on top. Last year we even had my brother on Skype (he lives interstate) so he could join in on the festivities.
In 2006 my Pop passed away on 28th November and we still put the tree up on the 1st December!
Last edited by Aimz; October 23rd, 2008 at 12:28 PM.
our tree will go up early December - depending on when DH can be home to help me put it up (it's a bit like Kat's - two person job to get it up!)
other stuff will go up earlier though - i'm ready NOW to start putting up all my new pretties!
my niece came out last year to help decorate the tree (i'd just been through EPU - not that she knew that!) - this year she has already said she's coming out to decorate the tree so that "Aunty BG and Gremlin can rest properly!" - she's very cute!
Santa is still real in my family. Even when we ahve christmas day lunch at my grandpa and nanas house (and there are no children/grandchildren under the age of 15), he will still have a carrot for every reindeer with their name attached to it and the most amazing teeth bite marks out of them. It is so lovely to play along no matter how old you are.
I will never tell my children that he isnt real and if they come home to say it to me I will tell them if you dont believe you wont receive!
Our dogs even get presents from Santa and our dogs even go shopping and get presents for us!! Amazing isnt it!
No. TBH, I don't like the greed that seems to surround Santa these days - the signs that demand presents on the lawns, the whole consumerism culture.
And I buy DS presents all the time anyway, why store them up for months to give him them all at once so a few get ignored for at least six months? Yes, he will get something (I'm knitting him some sheep) but not the masses and masses of toys it seems almost expected to get.
Plus, isn't Christmas supposed to be about the birth of Jesus, not some fat old guy? Maybe I'm just old-fashioned, but I'd rather worship God and celebrate the birth of His son - at the wrong time of year, but still a good excuse to remember Christ our Saviour is boooo-ooorn, Christ our Saviour is born than worship some false idol raised up to greed.
ETA - the Tree. Goes up first of December OR the first Sunday in Advent, whichever is earliest. Because we do our Christmas Bible Study and hang a star every day in December and we have a big star for after the Church service in December. The angel goes on around midnight at the start of Christmas Day. I love the tree and can decorate it all month this way, whilst still remembering what we're celebrating whenever I see one of the stars.
Last edited by Ca Plane Pour Moi; October 24th, 2008 at 06:07 AM.
Ditto to Nelle. We will have a tree and celebrate Christmas, but we don't do the Santa thing. I do read stories of Santa and we watch movies with Santa, but he's a fictional guy in our house. Sort of like the Simpsons
i'm starting to put up deco's soooooon. just need to finish a few other small jobs first and then the new stuff can come out so i can enjoy them for ages!
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