santa- is he real in your house?

[shellbell3]

Even tho Santa will be in our house we still don't just focus on him, we also include Jesus as we were included as kids and yes definately family is huge one always has been for us.
We don't spend alot money, rules in our family is presents only for the kids and we don't spend huge amounts either.
I think its just a matter of finding a nice balance between the real meaning of xmas plus all the magic and imagination that comes with it also. I admit I still get excited and feel all the old feelings from my kiddy days when I see decos set up and trees and I'm still dreaming of having a white xmas!

[~breeze~]

and I'm still dreaming of having a white xmas!

DH & I have always said when we have children & they get to a certain age, prob youngest around 4 or 5 yrs old, then we're going to have a white Christmas, probably Canada? I cant wait!!! LOL I have a long time to wait!

[shellbell3]

Ooh Danielle, take me with you! I always say one thing in life I want to do is have white xmas. I think all those xmas movies suck me into wanting it!

[feeb]

I LLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEE christmas!!!!

We grew up with lots of christmas decos, santa letters, leaving snaks out for santa and the reindeers and also going to church christmas eve and christmas day. We got pressies from santa etc, i dont remmeber when i knew the truth but i kept beleieving as i have younger brothers.

I think it is such a great magical time and i cant wait to share it all with Jacob!!!

We will put up the tree (generally dec 1st), read christmas stories, watch christmas movies and what i am really hanging for is doing Jacobs santa photos!!! woo hoo!!!

I love shopping for everyone every year (this year i will have to be much more behaved as mat pay will have stopped)

Dh had a very diff upbringing to me (doesnt mean much in his family, but yet they always want to do stuff on the day with us whole other thread needed for that) in relation to it all but i am working on changing him to love santa and christmas

I soooooooooooo cant wait to put up decs etc!!

A white christmas is magical!!! Was born in Scotland and was there till i was 8!!

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

You know what? I'm glad we don't worship the fat man. We've chosen our God and will be remembering the birth of His son in December. May not be the right time but as humans we love celebration, that has to be a God-given need to celebrate, so let's remember the time that Jesus came to earth. We commemmorate his death at Easter, why not commemorate his birth too? Jesus' birth (well, conception) is no less miraculous than... actually, conception full stop, but God sent His son... I want to remember that!

Magic... is strictly forbidden in the Bible. No "magic of Christmas" at our house. We'll have lots of fun, maybe get snow (we're up with my Mum this year), see family, yes we'll have presents but we won't be lying about from whence they came and tbh DS has already had most of what would have been his "Christmas presents" if I agreed with letting him get excited about a toy then not letting him play with it for months, but we won't be lying and we won't be boring either.

Imagination. I love imagining things. DS and I play imaginative games together - we pretend things, boxes become all sorts of fun things, we laugh, we have SO MUCH fun! We don't need to buy into a corporate lie to do that though. We can pretend that the soft toy bunnies are alive and playing our bouncy game with us WITHOUT us thinking they're really alive. Do I want to stimulate DS's imagination that a stranger is creeping around our house, in DS's room even, and that's OK? No I do not!

I know I'm coming from a fairly strict Christian perspective here; I just want to tell you what I do because I don't want people thinking I'm mean for not having Santa (yup, banning him as well, tbh it's so associated with greed atm I didn't like Santa pre-DS either). We have other great things which don't involve lying and do involve God. But we chose to follow God, not everyone has, others follow other traditions, I don't want to preach but I did want to put my viewpoint across.

[Nadine216]

And if he did we had to call it a Hannukah Bush!!!

I have never heard of a Hannukah Bush!! Smart mother

Each to their own RF That is what makes the world interesting ... that we all think about stuff differently, that even though I'm christian too ... I see no problem with having a "santa" Christmas. We usually gather in the living room, my dad reads us the story of Jesus's birth, we sings some songs (when we were young we played piano/did the whole nativity play) we talk a bit about what is important ... love, trust, family ... we pray together and then we give gifts. After that we sit down for a family dinner that usually ends after 4-5 hours of laughter and fun.
I love the way you express yourself in your post and how solid you are in your beliefs, it's commendable.

[tan32]

Yes we have Santa here, although DD is thinking he is not so real. A friend at school told her its not Santa its your Mum and Dad up at midnight putting the presents under the tree, she replied no way my Mum is alseep then...

Like Astrolady our tree will go up on the weekend when the Christmas pageant is on and Santa comes to town.

While we have Santa, we too also celebrate the birth of Jesus. We place out our nativity scene on the coffee table and we have a candlight one that goes in the front window.
I love christmas, its a time to be thankful and for me to spend some great quality time with my family together.
Oh and by the way i saw the most gorgeous fisher price nativity scene for the little ones