santa- is he real in your house?

[Olive]

ours goes up on the 1st december every year too!! but comes down before the new year!

[Antheia]

Ours went up usually 1st December. But now DD is older we'll be waiting until after her birthday to put it up. So thats 2 weeks before Christmas.

[New Dawn]

Our tree goes up around the 24th of Nov so that we get to enjoy it for the full mth.... So excited this year as it will be our only christmas wher I am living in the same state as my family and this is the 1st that we get use a REAL tree yipppppppy ( I guess there are good things about living down sth after all )

[Deejoy17]

Santa is real in our house, the boys write a letter to Santa (with help from Mummy), we then leave it by Santa`s plate of biscuits and a cup of milk by the Christmas Tree, then we leave food and water out for the reindeers.

Our tree goes up after DH`s Birthday, so anytime after 7th December.

[Snoopea]

We were always told as kids that if we didn't believe we wouldn't get pressies! Going to follow the same with my monkeys. DD knows that Santa has helpers that's why he's in a range of different shops ect but she's never asked me if he's real waiting for the day to come!!!

Here we are huge on christmas and already a few things are popping up around the house, the tree would be up already but DH is insistant on waiting till the 1st of november, I'm too big to fit in the roof and can't get it down so guess I'll be waiting!
As kids we use to put the tree up on pagent weekend, but I enjoy craft activites with the kiddies and we start them early hence the tree coming out early!

Snoopea

[Arimeh]

Nope no santa - or christmas tree - in this house

The rest of my siblings and my mum always go all out at christmas time though

[C~Q]

Nope no santa - or christmas tree - in this house

The rest of my siblings and my mum always go all out at christmas time though

Why is that Mel, Is it a religious thing?

(You don't have to explain if you don't want to - just being nosy lol!)

[AnyDream]

Oh yes, I even have the "I Believe in Santa" hat that I wear every year .

DD (10) seems to be on the cusp of working it out, she asks me and I've answered (very vaguely) about the magic of Christmas and how I believe in the "magic of Father Christmas"...*sigh* She's taken to keeping the letters they leave and comparing handwriting samples so it's getting harder and harder every year! LOL This year Santa's gonna be towing his trailer half way across Australia in the week before Christmas so there might be some secrecy issues there! LOL

[boomba]

We love the man in the big red suit! And he loves drinking all our beer and eating all the nice bikkies

Its so magical and even more so when you have the innocent faces of kids light up around christmas! Cant wait!!!

This house believes!

[shellbell3]

Even as an adult I just love xmas and all the 'magic' around it. Definately a santa here. I get sad that as an adult we don't get to experience it like children do so I will have to live it thru my own!
I love putting up the tree and the lights and wish I had more money to spend cause I would so go out and get the works and have my lounge set up like myer xmas displays!

[Nelle]

Hmm. I don't think we'll push the Santa thing here. I won't be a killjoy though, and if our kids ask, I think we'll say 'well, what do you think'? But if they REALLY want to know the truth, I'll tell.

My reasoning is, we believe in Jesus, and will share that with our kids - so you see the issue there, telling my kids that God is real and Santa is real...when it comes to the crunch, I want my kids to know I'm a reliable source of information, even if they're 5.

I also think, we'll have enough Christmas traditions, what with Church and our big families - that time of year is packed, so I don't think they'll miss out on too much if Santa only plays a small 'fun' role. Having said that, there will be TROUBLE if they set out to ruin it for anyone else. I've got my mummy scowl on just at the thought of that.


Oh, and our tree often goes up early November too - Rans LOVES our tree.