To insist Father Christmas is real until I drop dead?

[johnnymarrr]

My mum has always insisted Father Christmas is real. I believed until I was around 11, despite most kids at school not believing I pretended I also didn't but secretly believed with all my heart, and my mum and dad would go all out for Christmas and it made it SO special.

She still insists he's real now (I'm grown up now with kids of my own and I have 4 older siblings, eldest is almost 40!!) and my mum still insists to us that he is real and buys us presents from Santa 😂

AIBU to do the same for my kids? Or is this really odd?!

I guess it's not so much unreasonable as pointless and stupid, but you know, you're the one who'll look like the idiot, so whatever.

He's real in our house.

In fact, when I'm "tidying up" on Christmas Eve, DH hides under under the duvet in case he sees him.

Honestly I find it very odd and a little creepy when adults insist that Santa is real. I know that they don't literally believe it but it still seems so strange to me, and sickeningly twee.

I'm not even going to respond to the miserable people!

Glad so many other people still believe in the magic of Christmas 🎄

He’s real, I met him in Lapland

My DCs are writing their letters to Santa this week. I refuse to look at it unless it's addressed to 'Dear Father Christmas'. Course as they're teens it's basically an email with a load of links to stuff on Amazon.
They also indulge me with reading of the Night Before Christmas before bed.

Sadly, We haven't done the carrots and cookies for a couple of years though.

There's nothing miserable about an adult acknowledging the fact that he doesn't exist.

I'm not even going to respond to the miserable people!

Why post on AIBU if you don't want to hear from people who disagree with you? That post makes you even more unreasonable. Yes, a grown adult with no small children who insists that Santa is real is odd. Do it if you want, it's still odd.

We believe in this house!

Of course he’s real, he’s got a little house in our shopping centre and everything!

VenVidiWeeWee that made me tear up.

Of course he's real. YABU for thinking you might BU 

He's real at DH's parents' house. When I first met DH I was informed that MIL had a special connection to Father Christmas and any Christmas present requests should go to her to be passed on.

A few years back it was decided that Father Christmas would now concentrate his gift-giving duties on the grandchildren and my BIL's indignation was palpable .

I will never tell mine. Cos it's not true! He's real!

Santa Claus has never been real in our family. It doesn't make us miserable, we just have different traditions. Shrug.

I genuinely can’t tell if the people here agreeing that Santa Claus/Father Christmas are sincere or what...

I'm sincere. The magic lives on in this house.

I believe I've never been told otherwise by my parents and my teens still happily bake his mince pies on Christmas Eve along with their siblings

Father Christmas still leaves pjs on my sons beds on Xmas eve while they are in the shower, they still shout excitedly down the stairs that he's been again, they always put out the magic key along with mince pies and carrots... they are 17 & 20 when they asked if he was real a few years ago I simply told them it's up to them to believe or not, but to remember that if they don't they might find an empty stocking on Christmas morning and they have never mentioned it since.

We all enjoy it, even if they think their mum is completely batty

I will always believe.

RosieStarr
I'm in the camp of 'obviously santa isn't real but a bit of light hearted cheer didn't do anyonr any harm'.
DH and I do stockings for each other before tree presents. It's a daft tradition but we like it.
Older students at school insist lower school kids have it wrong and will get coal for saying Santa isn't real. For y11 it's daft fun.

I like the silly 'of course he is real' fun. I can't get on board with the very twee type of insisting Santa is real.

lol ok each to their own I suppose!

Youngest here are 22. If he isn’t real who’s pinching the whisky and mince pies I leave out?

Sadly, We haven't done the carrots and cookies for a couple of years though

11 and 15 here and we still do the carrots and cookies every year!

Interesting conversation with the 11 yr old on the way home from the shops this evening actually.
"People at school say Santa's fake! I'm half and half, I mean how does he fit down chimneys, and as if you could just fly all round the world in one night, but I think no, nope, he's real if you want him to be!

Damn right, yes yes to that lol.
He is real and I refuse to be told otherwise too.