They each have a sack at the end of their beds and Santa fills that.. Then there is presents under the tree from Me and from others who send them gifts/ friends etc/family.
Santa here, but when he's older, they'll be from mum & dad as well as santa. He's just too young and all he sees are presents.
When we were younger, they were from the parents, as well as a santa sack from santa. It was the same sack every year, but filled with different items (obviously!) I like to take time to open and savour my gifts, but sadly my sister was always in a rush and called out " I got blah". I had the same blah in my sack... Kinda ruined the fun! When we got older tho, it got more personalised!
Santa gives one or two, and the rest from us. Thats the way it was growing up too... I didn't think it was less magical Christmas was magical regardless!
im doing one big thing from us which is there bikes then a $30 from santa otherwise would do afew small things from us,i also got them a 8ft trampoline with net but gave that to hunter for his nday last month coz i dont want them expecting so much at xmas cos it will only get worse as theyre naughty
As kids, we always got 1 present each from Santa (as Santa only has room in his sleigh for 1 present for each child in the world) and the rest from mum, dad, brothers & sisters and the dogs!
In our house the presents were all from Santa, and that's what we do here. In fact I never really thought about doing it any different. I don't think I need to take any of the credit, they will only be little enough to believe in the magic for such a short time.
I too go with DS to buy a present for the wishing tree. We did too when I was little. I don't think I actually put two and two together on that until I didn't believe in Santa any more, although I did question why Santa didn't come to poor people.
Have not really decided yet how it is going to be divided up. At the moment it probably does not really matter. Growing up we all used to get our own box of chocolates from Santa, it stopped us arguing over them and I got a Santa stocking as I was the youngest. I also used to get a present from the cats.
With my family the giver gave the present to the receiver and we all watched. It was usually done in our pj's before breakfast. I used to really like it. When mum remarried, my step family had the tradition of the youngest handing out the presents and everyone opening together. It was also done after my SD had breakfast (which of course he took forever having that one morning as he was extremely passive aggressive). I hated it, I did know who got what from whom and if they liked it. It was part of the reason that I hated Christmas for many years.
Our kids have a santa sack which Santa fills up with pressies (I usually buy way too many so they flow over onto the floor around it too, LOL!) and we give them one present each.
I love the magic of the presents being from Santa. When they get older the presents are from us and they only have Santa for a few years so I want it mainly about Santa while I can.
My mum still gave us presents from Santa, even when we were teenagers and knew better...was fun though!
I remember figuring out the hand writing on all the tags was Mums before I figured out the truth about Santa - she reckoned that Santa was so busy he didn't have time to wrap all of the presents, so sent them to her to wrap for him...gotta love the way that Mums can think of things on their feet!
It will be our first daughters first xmas this year, so she wont really know what is going on but we have decided that she will get some presents from santa but most will come from mum and dad. I agree with others on this topic. We do all the hard work, only fair we get the credit!
Christmas was magical regardless!
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