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Have you ever forgotten to Santa?

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masterstef · 24/12/2018 22:42

My eldest ds is 4 and this is his first Christmas where he's really clued up and knows all about Santa etc. I've been quite organised this year and have stocking presents all wrapped in special paper, got everything else done by this afternoon so just had a bath and ready for bed... leaving it til last minute to actually put the presents in his stocking in case he wakes for a wee but slightly worried I'll forget and go straight to bed and he'll be distraught tomorrow!

I don't get much sleep at all due to baby ds2 - am generally fairly with-it despite this but have been known to have the odd major blip. Have put a satsuma on my pillow to remind me! Just wondered if - with all the build-up and things to do - anyone's ever had a Santa disaster and forgotten?! (Or got caught....)

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Rhubarbisevil · 24/12/2018 22:46

I’ve been caught before as the kids have commented on how much Santa swears when he/she falls over the furniture. I’m terrified of forgetting, especially tonight

3boysandabump · 24/12/2018 22:47

Not me but mil forgot one year when dh was little. He's still not over it 30 something years later 😂

Fairylea · 24/12/2018 22:50

I once caught my mum moving the presents out of the cupboard She was visibly shocked and quickly said Santa had left them in the wrong place - silly Santa!- and she was moving them into the living room for him.... I didn’t doubt her for a second (I was about 6). We laugh about it now.

user1471530109 · 24/12/2018 22:50

I caught my parents emptying the wardrobe when I was a kid!

I'm too exhausted to care much this year which is annoying the hell out of me (if that makes sense?). I need to go to car to empty boot, go to various rooms etc. And I just can't be arsed!

i will do it though

hugoagogo · 24/12/2018 22:51

Oh I've been caught! I was caught filling Dr's stocking, I bluffed and said I was just checking to see if he had been!
I'm pretty sure she didn't believe me.

Skatersbeskating · 24/12/2018 22:54

Ive thrown a broken up carrot out onto the path, crumbs on the plate & put the milk back in the bottle.

I need to get out of bed do the stocking.

NightOwlHoney · 24/12/2018 22:55

My Dad got pissed and forgot to put the presents out one year. I still remember the way I felt when I got up and 'Santa hadn't been'. I can see how it's easy done if you're tired and have kids that don't go to sleep though. He was just a shit parent.

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masterstef · 24/12/2018 22:55

Sadly I can't remember properly believing as a kid, only ever knowing it was mum & dad but enjoying 'trying' to believe iyswim. I asked my mum recently and she said I asked her directly when I was quite young if it was really them, then when she admitted it I was outraged at them pretending to be surprised when I showed them what Santa had bought!

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mrsdolittle · 24/12/2018 23:05

Not exactly stanta related but I used to put the stockings outside the kids bedroom doors for them to find when they woke up. One year DS (who would have been about 5 then) got up in the early hours to go to the loo and saw his filled stocking. He was too excited to go back to sleep but didn't want to come and tell me - he just stayed awake until we got up. He was beyond exhausted and by the time we went down for the big presents he was in a right state. Then he managed to poke himself in the eye unwrapping a present (possibly with a coat hanger?). His eye was fine but he was inconsolable so in the end I popped him back to bed. He slept all day and completely missed Christmas. Thereafter I kept the stockings out of site downstairs 😀😀

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masterstef · 24/12/2018 23:11

oh god that's the sort of thing I'm afraid of!! DS would be exactly the same!

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pintsizeprincess · 24/12/2018 23:19

Almost just been csught out there just now by eldest dd6 coming down the stairs half asleep asking to look at the Norad Santa tracker !! All the santa presents are out but were luckily just out of her sight. Never sprinted up those stairs so quick in my life!!

Hoppinggreen · 24/12/2018 23:20

Not but if these bloody kids don’t fall asleep soon I might!

Etino · 24/12/2018 23:23

20 yo dd has just been through and asked where hers is. Sigh. I’d got ahead and pre do filled them.

ButteryParsnips · 24/12/2018 23:27

Haven't done this myself but best tip I've seen is to buy two identical stockings so you can fill one at your ease and then just swap full for empty which makes it a lot easier.

WinkyisbackontheButterBeer · 24/12/2018 23:34

When I was about 9 I was rudely awoken by my dad’s foot about 3 inches from my face.
I had a high sleeper bed and Dad was in the loft trying to get the presents when he slipped off the strut that he was standing on and put his foot through my bedroom ceiling.

ZigZagIntoTheBlue · 24/12/2018 23:38

I was going to say about the empty stocking swap, it's made my life loads easier!

Rhubarbisevil · 24/12/2018 23:42

GO TO SLEEP!!!

And then they complain that we’re grumpy on Christmas Day

Lostmecash · 24/12/2018 23:45

No. But I've forgotten to Tooth fairy many, many times.

She's known as totally unreliable in this house

Dextrodependant · 24/12/2018 23:51

I very nearly forgot one year and woke up minutes before the children and put them out. How I set an alarm for 5.30 so of the kids wake in the night they don't see the stocking and want to get up.

SleepWarrior · 24/12/2018 23:51

The tooth fairy's very first visit to this house was a disappointing failure

I take mine for a nighttime we before filling stockings to minimise chances of them getting up in the early hours and staying up with excitement.

kirkandpetal · 24/12/2018 23:52

I'm exhausted and full of the cold. Dc1 has finally fallen asleep so was finally able to go up to attic, get wrapped pressies and paper (for couple of last minutes pressies) down and sort it all out. And fill the bloody advent calendar ....grrrr

Now tucked up in bed with nurofen, cup of tea and tonight's episode of Eastenders. Feel shit and totally disorganised and would give anything to wake up feeling well again. I had planned to do so manny things the last couple of days to be super calm and organised and it's all just gone to shit!

Ah well!

Happy xmas one and all

SilverDoe · 24/12/2018 23:52

I’ve literally been just saying the same thing to DH and have set 2 alarms! The thought of waking up to a heartbroken 3 year old who’s been so painfully excited for Father Christmas to visit, it’s just awful to think about. I woke up super early this morning so am sure I will wake naturally on Christmas morning early anyway (old habits die hard ;) )

But the 2 alarms have my back just in case

herecomesthsun · 26/12/2018 20:35

we did have an inquisitive 10 year old who tried to come downstairs at 12 midnight this year and was ushered back upstairs by DH. He knows very well what is going on!

ForeverBubblegum · 26/12/2018 20:54

When I was 7 my mum got a phone call to say Rudolf had hurt his ankle so Santa's sleigh was running behind schedule. We went to visit my gran first thing then when we got back he'd been. Apparently my then teenage uncil had been woken up and given £20 to climb out a window unseen then ride his bike to our house and sort it before we went home.

SleepWarrior · 26/12/2018 21:02

That's a great family story Forever!

What had happened to your mum on the night though - did she just plain forget?

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