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Christmas eve boxes

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Piixxiiee · 23/12/2019 08:16

So Christmas eve boxes- who are they off in your house?

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Waxonwaxoff0 · 23/12/2019 08:17

Me.

RhymingRabbit3 · 23/12/2019 08:21

From the parents. Who else would they be from? Cant be father christmas as he hasn't come yet!

Salene · 23/12/2019 08:24

Chippy the Elf leaves outs when he goes back to North Pole

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Piixxiiee · 23/12/2019 08:26

Ok good, we do them off us but dd just mentioned a friend has them off elves as they leave and someone else has them something to do with santa and magic. Dont want to start another tradition really!

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DropZoneOne · 23/12/2019 08:26

Christmas Elves just checking everything is ok for Father Christmas!

Ivalueloyaltyaboveallelse · 23/12/2019 08:35

from us.

wendz86 · 23/12/2019 08:40

Usually from the elves when they leave .

Mileymileymoomoo · 23/12/2019 08:50

From DH and I.

Just stick to it bring from you and and tell DD different families have different traditions.

BiddyPop · 23/12/2019 08:54

Me.
DD has helped with filling it (the shopping part - not the getting out family favourites to reuse part) a few times.

BiddyPop · 23/12/2019 09:02

Santa does lots in our house, we never had an elf (but sometimes toys organised themselves into picnic teaparties on the floor or gathered around a "campfire" (battery operated tealight) for storytime, magically all by themselves!!). But the hamper has always been known to be from me.

Other families around don't have one, have one from Elves, or have one done my Mum.

Just the same as in primary school, some kids went to mass in church, some went to service in church, some had Diwali while others had Hannukkah (sp?) - multi-denominational and they all learned about each religion om school but parents organised the actual religious education for their own specific religions, not in school.

And we also have a mix of unmarried families, divorced families, adoptions of various sorts, widowed parents, same sex parents etc around us too - so families themselves can be all very different.

So people doing different things and believing different things has long been part of our narrative. This is just another one of those.

Bearfrills · 23/12/2019 10:30

Santa brings ours. We have a family friend who dresses as Santa and visits at teatime on Christmas Eve, he brings pyjamas and a storybook with a reminder ti go to bed nice and early. The DC get really excited to see Santa on the doorstep, even eldest who knows Santa isn't real. He also plays Santa at their schools and is the Santa for lots of the local community events so every time the DC see Santa in December, it's the same Santa.

All of the gifts on Christmas Day are from us.

DinosApple · 23/12/2019 10:45

Me. We don't do elves and Santa gets the credit for the stockings. The Christmas Eve box is a pretty recent thing in this house, and as the kids are older primary age I can't spin another yarn.

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