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What's Santa responsible for delivering in your house?

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Dozeynoo · 04/12/2006 15:24

As a kid Father Christmas visited our house on on Christmas Eve night to fill our stockings with lots of small gifts plus the obligatory choc. coins and satusma. Stockings were opened as soon as we woke then the 'proper' presents opened after breakfast.
In hubby's house Santa brought the presents from everyone on christmas eve - i.e. like some sort of delivery service and everything was opened as soon as they woke first thing.
DS1 is now three so this year we need to get our story straight.
Over christmas we cover at least 200 miles, stopping a couple of nights at several sets of relatives. Getting all 'Santa's' deliveries into the boot of the car unnoticed and carting them round 'in secret' plus explaining why half of them are left at home until later (need to fit the travel cot in for ds2) does not fill me with that warm and fuzzy christmas feeling.
How does it work in your house?

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2000milestoeidsvold · 05/12/2006 01:19

nothing - don't do santa in our house.

swedishmum · 05/12/2006 08:33

Last week dd told me that the way she sussed Santa wasn't real was because he brought all the presents - she thought it odd there were none from us! She suggested that if we want dd3 (nearly3) to think he's real, we only have the stockings from him.

noogles · 05/12/2006 09:00

When we were growing up Santa brought us all our presents. BUT they were from mummy and daddy as we send some to him (sometimes along with the wrapping paper too ). He labels the ones that are from him, and the ones from us. DP just had few pressies from santa and after dinner pressies from parents. We have always told ds that santa brings his pressies for him if hes good but I am debating this year as to whether or not we should keep a pressie from us to give to him.?

deaconblue · 05/12/2006 10:20

We had presents from Santa and then separate ones from relatives later in the day. Strange that we never asked why mummy hadn't bought us any presents, I think it just didn't occur to us. Dh has strange "tree present" tradition where you open something from Santa on Christmas Eve (but how could the present from Santa get there on Xmas Eve???) so I guess we'll be doing that with ds ' first Xmas

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