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You would have thought that if your children are 17 and 23....

93 replies

BertrandRussell · 25/12/2018 00:27

....you wouldn’t have to write a letter from Father Christmas in the special magic writing and wait til they are asleep to put out the presents under the tree and fill the stockings? Well, wouldn’t you?????

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giggly · 25/12/2018 00:57

I’m 52 and still get a stocking from Santa at my mums house🎅🎅🎅 as do my dc.

ILoveMaxiBondi · 25/12/2018 01:10

Oh I really hope I am still doing that when mine are that age. Im feeling a bit sad as this is probably my last year with a believer and I don’t want it to end.

AuntieStella · 25/12/2018 01:16

Yes plumpciousness festive molecules

You know those chemistry demo things where the different coloured balls are atoms and there are stick things so you can bind them together? Well, we have a set and alcohol was created C2H5OH

Also some less-festive acids and a diamond lattice as finale

CherryMix - do your piggies wear antlers?

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BradleyPooper · 25/12/2018 01:21

Santa visited me til my mum died when I was 25 ... make the most of it.

shiningstar2 · 25/12/2018 01:24

Tonight there are 10 stockings in my hearth. My daughter's aged 43, her husband's aged 44, their 2 kids aged 13 and 10, my mother's aged 87 and her widowed friend's aged 80. My husband's age 66 and my own. Also one for daughter's dog and mine. Basically santa leaves a stocking here for anyone visiting on Christmas day. I assist santa with 9 stockings and my husband assists Santa with mine.

Happy Christmas everyone.

Armchairanarchist · 25/12/2018 01:25

DS 23 is in NYC for Christmas but I still did him a stocking and hung it on his bed. The same stocking he was bought on his first Christmas.

ComtesseDeSpair · 25/12/2018 01:46

I have just watched my mum gnaw on a raw carrot and then throw it out onto the patio so that, tomorrow morning, she can show it to me as proof that Father Christmas and his carrot-munching reindeer were here. My mum is 64. I am 31.

TheNativityDonkey · 25/12/2018 01:55

My 3 are 20 19 and 17. Ive just fillrd rhier stockings after waiting for them to go to bed!! They also all had Christmas Pjs last night!!
I know they dont believe 🎅but we all pretend to keep the magic going 😁

rainbowlou · 25/12/2018 02:03

My 19 year old never wants to move out because she loves the magic of it all here.,I can’t see me ever stopping it x

Loveweekends10 · 25/12/2018 02:06

Wish my 19 yesr old would go to sleep. Just got up to fill her and her sisters stocking and she is still awake!!

jessstan2 · 25/12/2018 02:07

Bless.
I never did the Santa myth with mine but still do a stocking for son as well as main present; he says he wants a stocking every year until we are no longer around. It's quite fun. I buy useful stuff to put in it and my husband buys junk.

Normalnorman · 25/12/2018 02:41

My kids still go through the same shit they did as kids even at 21 and 19yrs. We all used to sit on the top of the stairs whilst I went through the drill of saying Father Christmas may not have been able to stop and leave presents at ours so if he hasn't - don't be disappointed because they still have presents from us.

They'd promise not to be sad and understood some children don't have anything at all so Father Christmas has to make them his priority and my son would open the living room door slightly and peep to see if there were presents underneath the tree.

He's 19yrs old, 6'4", built like a brick shit house with shoulder length hair and a beard and he'll still peep round the door to see if Father Christmas made it.

JennyOnAPlate · 25/12/2018 02:47

My mum still won't admit that Santa isn't real. I'm 38.

minisoksmakehardwork · 25/12/2018 02:47

Awww that's so sweet. Mind, I used to babysit Xmas eve do friends could go to midnight mass (big church family). By the time I got home, Santa would already have been to my house!

One year he came before I had put the decorations up!!! (Yep, as a late teen I decorated the house Xmas Eve otherwise I doubt it would have been done).

Stupomax · 25/12/2018 03:52

I convinced my teens this year - for the first time - that we didn't have enough presents for them to having stockings. They reluctantly agreed.

They've gone to bed (having left a note for Santa, along with sherry, carrots and the last mince pie).

I've done stockings for them anyway.

PeaQiwiComHequo · 25/12/2018 04:03

we all got stockings at DM&DF home until such time as we had a permanent DP and then Santa started delivering to our own homes.

however once we were teenagers Santa did stop delivering to our bedrooms and started delivering to the sitting room. stocking had to be hung up by 9pm the sitting room was out of bounds after 9:30 and parents went to bed at 10.

Santa is real.

MawkishTwaddle · 25/12/2018 04:11

I’ve just put the filled stockings downstairs for my two blokes - 18 and 20.

My 20 year old was the last up, so he decided Santa wanted a jam tart this year, and Rudolf an apple.

He’s eaten the jam tart and left the nibbled apple core on the plate.

The baton has been passed Smile

Toomanybaubles · 25/12/2018 04:12

My soon to be teenager is still absolutely gutted that FC isn’t real, she ‘believed’ until two years ago and has been weepy because nothing is the same, poor girl.

AlbertWinestein · 25/12/2018 04:22

It’s 1120pm here. My alarm is set for 330am just so my 4, aged 15-21 still feel the Xmas love.

Stephisaur · 25/12/2018 06:00

I’m 27 and this is the first year I haven’t put anything out for Father Christmas.

Only because I had a baby 2 weeks ago and it didn’t seem worth forcing DH to indulge me this year Xmas Grin

Allington · 25/12/2018 06:01

When DD1 was a stroppy teen she declared FC did not exist. He left her a piece of coal (well, a BBQ charcoal briquette) all wrapped up... luckily she had plenty of presents from me to make up for it. Both DDs very loudly declare their faith in FC these days Grin

brizzledrizzle · 25/12/2018 06:05

No santa magic here Sadds knew I was wrapping presents when he went upstairs to talk to his friends and dd was helping me.
I did wait until they had gone to bed before putting the presents under the tree but dd cane back down later.
I'm loving all your tales of tradition.

Marmelised · 25/12/2018 06:31

My 2, mid 20s, asked not to have stockings this year as they felt guilty about the waste with nice but not needed tat/gifts. But, could they still have chocolate coins and their Christmas ornament...

So I’ve been bought mini stockings instead of the larger velvet ones they’ve used since childhood and they have coins, posh chocolate and a mini bottle of fizz. Grown up version, minimum waste, keeps mum happy 😀

StealthPolarBear · 25/12/2018 06:31

"ComtesseDeSpair

I have just watched my mum gnaw on a raw carrot and then throw it out onto the patio so that, tomorrow morning, she can show it to me as proof that Father Christmas and his carrot-munching reindeer were here. My mum is 64. I am 31."
Brilliant. :o I am the carrot gnawer in this house and every year I grumble about it to DH. Last night he did it for me while I was doing something else and I was devestated. I am rudolph.

fiorentina · 25/12/2018 06:32

Father Christmas sometimes came before I was back from the pub in my late teens.. and left me a stocking and note to say he couldn’t wait! Grin

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