How do your Christmas Eve Hampers arrive?

[BankerMommy2010]

Im doing a CEH this year, I was just wondering how & when yours arrive?

I was going to put it ds bedroom whilst he was in the bath, but I quite like the idea of bubble bath in the hamper.... so maybe have it waiting in his room when we go up for a bath??? Im thinking of putting a twinkly set of battery operated lights in the basket so when he walks into his dark bedroom, the hamper will be in there twinkling!

I'm going to do this for the first time this year and love the idea of putting lights on it!

Ours also comes from our Elf as he leaves. After the DCs go to bed on the 23rd the Elf goes back to the North Pole to help FC on Christmas Eve but before he goes he leaves a bag with pyjamas, hot chocolate, reindeer food, the special key for FC to get in and usually a DVD. The DCs see the bag in the living room when they get up on the 24th instead of looking for the Elf.

It just appears somewhere in the house, no elves here (as previously mentioned they freak me the feck out) but a nice treat with some fun things to do on christmas eve and a nice way to go to bed in new pjs with a new story and a hot chocolate. not overly expensive as have picked most of the stuff up in sales probably wont cost more than £10

We don't do the Elf, but effectively yes, a survival kit to help DD get to bed calmly on Christmas Eve. So new PJs and slipper socks (originally just for her, but now DH and I as well - it's a handy way to get a new pair that we'd need anyway!!), a bath bomb (I get a Lush either Ickle Baby Bot or Santa Bomb for her, and something nice and relaxing for me to use over the holiday season sometime), a small choc treat and sometimes a snowman soup or nice hot choc mix, and our copy of "Twas the Night Before Christmas" as that is always the Christmas Eve bedtime story. I take it out after dinner, putting out stocking and lighting the Christmas candle, at which point I am looking to get DD moving up to bath and bed - so this does help that process.