Important reminder re Santa

[KabukiNoh]

AIBU to remind you to go put the stocking presents in your kids’ rooms? I can feel the post-Christmas-Eve-party-hosting-wine-induced lethargy setting in. Those stockings seem so far from my sofa right now. There’s been so much trauma over the years from that unreliable Tooth Fairy character. Surely Santa won’t let us down…

Teen DC here so I'll do their stocking in the morning before they surface, I cant wait til they've gone to bed! 🤣

Never had stockings as a kid and still don’t have them for DC 🤷🏻‍♀️

Interesting all the different traditions.

Not sure why people are sneaking stockings for teens though?

Stockings at the end of the kids beds is my favourite part of Christmas! We all stay in bed and me and DH drink coffee and the kids open their stockings.

I keep putting off going to hang it on DC's door. 1, because I cannot be arsed to get out of bed. 2, I'm terrified DC will catch me because 'bloody santa' has put a bag of sweets in the top that makes crinkly noises!

That's sad.

I had a conversation with my adult children about an hour ago how Santa mentioned to me that he might come before midnight tonight, as he had a lot to get done.

I was assured headphones would be on in both bedrooms and to pass that message back to him.

I still love suggesting to Santa what he could pop in their stockings. And they still love receiving them.

Santa leaves the stocking outside the bedroom door for dd (14) to open when she wakes up. I was always allowed to open my stocking whenever I wanted and it was something I loved doing. One present (Random choice) after breakfast and rest after lunch as she's old enough to wait!

Stocking all filled hiding outside the bedroom door so I can put it on the end of the bed from 6am! If he wakes any earlier I can say he hasn't been yet and we must go back to sleep for a bit 😅

I also remember the excitement I'd get from feeling the sack on my feet and trying to replicate this!

I prepare all year for this by putting their school uniform/clothes out as I go to bed. I'll lay out clothes for Church tomorrow tonight. So it makes it easy to put a Santa's sack in, as it's just me clattering in the wardrobe finding clothes as normal.

I regret ever starting this whole stocking in the bedroom business.

I will get up at some point and fill them but the kids are only just in bed…

I’ve never allowed stockings in rooms, always downstairs

given that ds2 (10) is still awake this was the right decision
santa has just had to do his special delivery in the room immediately below his when I knew he was still awake. Had to get dh to go and talk to him gently to distract (hopefully) from the noise

I don’t think he actually believes but I think he desperately wants to

Not gonna lie, mine could have been forgotten this year as I fell asleep putting dc2 to bed. Luckily DH stepped up for a change and sorted stockings.

Done, they hung them above the fireplace before they went upstairs. Much easier than sneaking around in bedrooms!

When I say sorted I obviously mean putting the stuff I chose, wrapped and organised into named bags, ready to be decanted into stockings, into the stockings.

Years ago, we put a stocking in our DDs room when she was three and she woke up at about 2 am and kept us awake asking for it every 20 mins- we were shattered as also had a non sleeping 15m old at the time. Wrecked Christmas as we were all horribly tired. Since then we had stockings in the lounge under the tree!

We’ve always done presents in the living room & opened together. Just seems so much easier!

Hahaha that's so funny about the duvet cover....did your mum know you'd done before bed it or was it a surprise as she came to fill it with presents?

We also had pillowcases as a kid alongside our stocking on the end of the bed. They lived in the Christmas decorations box and they were giant pillowcases for pillows I've never seen the same size as in real life. I've no idea where my parents got them from, we definitely had no pillows that size at home. The pillowcase was filled with the big gifts and the stocking with the smaller ones.

Slimmed down stocking this year after complaints about tat (and uneaten treats) one is a duplicate stocking so that's done ready for a bait and switch but I'll do them all when I go for a night time wee in a few hours

I can remember age around six, hearing my dad crying out "the f*ing birds are singing', as they'd been waiting up all night for me to sleep as I was too excited.....I just assumed in my head at that time that they had to be up to let SC in through the front door as we didn't have a fireplace...

😂😂😂😂

Blimey, right after reading through this thread, DD has just woken up, stomped right out of bed past her full sack, gotten into to my bed and not noticed a thing...😂😂😂

Youngest has hera on the end of her bed (she’s 15) she LOVES the stocking always has our two adult sons our bay granddaughter and husbands under the tree
I’m awake on the sofa waiting for DH to get in from work

Stockings go at the end of the bed here.

I remember sitting on the stairs one year until around 4 am because DD had still not gone to sleep. I must have been mad.

Just taken and filled DS (20s) stocking, and he very sweetly pretended to be asleep.

We used to put them in their rooms and it was a pain creeping in. Now at 19 and 17 I just leave them by the bedroom door and pray they don't trip over them in the night
I did suggest leaving them downstairs a few times but was told that wasn't the same, they wanted them in their bedroom (and DH agreed with them).
Thankfully I don't need to worry about DS. He doesn't understand Christmas due to autism so just put a few bits in his stocking and let him look at it when he's ready but the stocking stays in our room.

Santa never came into our rooms as kids, stocking were also on the couch /chair with your presents.

Haha, same.

When I was a child my DB would come into my room all excited, stupidly early, to open them together. I would always have prefered to sleep a bit more (sleep issue since childhood), but my DM would be glad for the extra sleep. My dad would hear we were up so he would head downstairs to put the fire on and Xmas music to make the room cosy for us, ready for the main presents.

With my DD the sticking would be put out empty downstairs before she went up, I would then fill it and take it up on my way to bed. As she got older and harder to get to sleep i would leave it leaning against her door. She had no siblings but her coming in to share what she had had in her stocking give me time to come around fully before heading downstairs