santa- is he real in your house?

[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.

[krysalyss]

We don't really plan to do santa here. DS will be 20 months so will be starting to get the xmas thing a little more. We did feel it was a big dilemma as to whether to or not. We had decided not to until my mum was soooo shocked we had to rethink. We aren't going to leave santa out totally but won't make a big deal out of it and if he asks if santa is real we aren't going to pretend that he is but just explain it like a game (ie its a make believe, magic game just for xmas). After all as many of you have already said - kids work it out but still play along. They aren't silly!