Are you sorry you asked now?
Nope I think it's great that you have strong views on something that goes against mainstream thinking and you stick by your guns. I think it shows incredible strength of character.

But that does not mean we forget what Christmas is really about. The question "is Santa real in your house" YES , but is that the only thing that is talked about around Christmas .... NO.
I think thats a fantastic way to put it!

I find it very hard to figure out what to tell my kids with regards to the other side of Xmas (the religious side). I am Jewish and was rasied in a semi-practising Reform family (not very srtrict) so we went to Synagogue on holidays and thats pretty much it. We always celebrated Xmas and even went Carroling which strangely, I never found strange at all. I remember Mum and Dad always making us draw the curtains before we turned the tree lights on incase the Rabbi up the road saw them! And if he did we had to call it a Hannukah Bush!!!

For me, now I am not religious and don't know what I believe to be honest so to avoid questions I truely don't know how to answer, Xmas is all about Santa and the pressies in this house! It's also aout friends since all my family are in England, and getting together and eating and drinking and playing games. I have no idea what it's going to be like this year - me and the kids and hopefully XDH but who knows...

Wow, what a waffle, sorry!