UO: I don't get the Christmas stockings you all talk about so much. DNW a big sock filled with cheap tat that I could buy myself anyway. Gimme all the big gifts or just fill my stocking with jewellery. Needless to say, we don't do them.
We dont do stockings either. My mom did do them for us as kids, it was mostly candy and a couple little things, maybe a pair of earrings and some chapstick. But she didn't do one for herself or my dad, stockings were always just kid stuff. Not sure if we'll do them eventually but for now we dont have them. J will have 4 or 5 gifts wrapped under the tree, from us. She'll definitely get way more stuff from grandparents aunts and uncles than she does from us!
Our stocking are filled with small niceish things. FFFC: I know there's a new pearl ring in mine because I bought it for myself. I wanted a mother's type ring.
What is a "mother's type" ring?
A mother's ring? It has birthstones from all of your children in it. My granny and my mom both have one. I don't want a real one yet since we aren't done having kids so I just got a pearl one.
michyme123 , my brother and I would tear the house down everytime my parents were leaving the house to find our presents lol. They had to be so imaginative to hide them. The best place for them was the garage because we had effing huuuuge spiders there and we were too afraid to attempt to move anything, lol.
I'm not sure if this is an UO but I never attempted to search for my presents, even after I knew my parents had them. Like I would purposefully avoid their closet around Christmas because I didn't want to ruin the surprise for myself. My H said he always went looking for gifts and most of the time would already know what he was getting. I think that's so sad!
michyme123 , my brother and I would tear the house down everytime my parents were leaving the house to find our presents lol. They had to be so imaginative to hide them. The best place for them was the garage because we had effing huuuuge spiders there and we were too afraid to attempt to move anything, lol.
I'm not sure if this is an UO but I never attempted to search for my presents, even after I knew my parents had them. Like I would purposefully avoid their closet around Christmas because I didn't want to ruin the surprise for myself. My H said he always went looking for gifts and most of the time would already know what he was getting. I think that's so sad!
I found and showed my sister one of her gifts one year when we were kids and she was so upset and I felt awful that I never looked again lol. My H also was a gift searcher or guesser under the tree, I was always anxious but loved waiting for the surprise on Christmas. Maybe my ease of being team green comes from my Christmas tendencies 😂
tiffbot, I very easily went team green with LO and I loved it, I never had an urge to know ahead of time.
My FFFC that I know I've used before but oh well, is that when I was pregnant with DS1 I really wanted him to be a girl. So I found out the sex because I knew I would need time to get used to the idea if he was a boy. I was pretty disappointed and I wrote that in my pregnancy journal. I was just going to type that I got over it quickly, but now that I'm re-hashing, I don't think that I did. I had trouble shopping for clothes for awhile there because I kept wanting to go to the girl section. But by now I'm over it LOL.
@jemomma, we are team one big assembled present from Santa and possibly some small ones plus stocking stuffers but I LOVE the idea of the Santa sack. That's so cool! Can I ask: do they get new ones each year or is there some way they are "returned" to Santa?
Post by periwinkledaydreams on Dec 23, 2016 14:55:52 GMT -5
madymoiselle I think 5 or 6 is pretty typical age to stop believing in Santa. In my experience a lot of kids a few years after they stop actually believing the whole thing, kind of go about a hopeful half belief. Liks they know it cant actually be true, but theyve got their fingers crossed lol. I think I believed til 5 or so.
madymoiselle I think 5 or 6 is pretty typical age to stop believing in Santa. In my experience a lot of kids a few years after they stop actually believing the whole thing, kind of go about a hopeful half belief. Liks they know it cant actually be true, but theyve got their fingers crossed lol. I think I believed til 5 or so.
DS turned 4 in September and he is just NOW understanding the concept of Santa. So if he finds out at 5, that's only 1 true Santa Christmas. It wouldn't shock me though, because he's already questioned it a few times. Between movies and commercials and just the fact that he's a very logical thinker, he's skeptical. I was the same way as a kid (and now) so I'm sure some of that is rubbing off on him.
In any case, I think you're right, some kids know deep down it's not real but they like to play along to make it more fun.
For you fellow people who do one santa gift: have you ever heard of a Santa Sack? A friend told me about these and I had to get them for the kids. I think it is so special! She said she still has hers from when she was a kid and that tradition always meant a great deal to her.
It is basically a canvas or potato sack bag with a little design and the kid's name on it and you put the Santa gift in it every year. So it's like the sack has literally just come off of Santa's sleigh. This is similar to the ones I got the kids this year:
Ok where did you buy it from because that is adorable and I must have one!
Kristykristyleelee maybe if you ignore hard enough your MIL will go live in the princess castle out back lol
Uh, I taught fourth graders that still believed in Santa at age 10. 5 or 6 seems way young.
*raises hand* I was in 4th grade the last time I wrote a letter. When I didn't get what I requested, I knew the jig was up.
My request was for Santa to keep all my presents and to make my grandpa better. He died on New Years Day that break. So...it was a rather impossible request.
lol, I was about to post the same. 3 kids = a toy flooded playroom.
Writing from our flooded toy room...I try to manage it but it is a toy room just for them and after a few years stuff accumulates. We rotate out toys to the storage area every few months to keep them entertained.
I did go minimal on Xmas this year though. DD is getting one large gift (a kitchen), a few books and a box of animal magnets for the fridge.
DS is getting his large Santa gift (a bruder logging truck) books and ice skates/hockey helmet
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