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.
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