*lighthearted * we have had the chat - what now?

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Discussions with my twins separately this weekend means that they both know the truth about Father Christmas. So no more leaving things out etc.
WHAT do people people do now? Before we had children we didn't really care about Christmas eve but I think I should still do something? Also who knows what it will be like? I'm not sure if we can do church but maybe it will be online. I still want todo stockings as I enjoy them, is that silly?

We didn't have 'a reveal'. In our family the unspoken deal was that if you still believe Santa Claus keeps coming.

It becomes a little more tongue in cheek as they get older, but even teenagers play along. It does mean a year or two when it's not clear who is humouring who!

Santa still comes here and my children are 17-25! They’d be devastated if their Christmas PJs didn’t fall off the sledge into the garden each Christmas Eve! I know this as I’d planned to stop some of the traditions this year until I heard them excitedly telling our new arrival foster children all about them! They still do the full mince pies out, Christmas lists and stockings.

My teens still leave things out and look for the secret present from the elf on Xmas Eve!!!

Thanks for the reassurance, I guess I'll take my lead from them children but be prepared to do some of the same traditions

I’ll always leave out the treats for Santa. And always have new pyjamas and stockings for DC. It’s a tradition we love

Reading your responses has made me so happy. The magic lives on.

How about Christmas movie night?
Film, pizza and popcorn and new pyjamas in a movie themed Christmas eve box??

Anyone who sleeps here on Christmas Eve gets a stocking from Father Christmas... eldest was 78.

@Sweetmotherofallthatisholyabov

My 31yo DB still gets a stocking at home and the only reason I don't is because I'm at home Xmas eve and Santa only comes to residents

Yes I’m 33 and I still get a stocking because I’m at home! Well we do little sacks but same thing. Growing up we used to get Santa presents before lunch, then after lunch we’d do the family presents and this continued long after my sister and I knew the truth. Then in our 20s mum stopped Santa presents because we were adults in full time employment and she was now a widow so just wasn’t really sensible anymore - still did family presents. Then a few years after my sister had moved out they decided to come to us Boxing Day for presents instead of Christmas Day so my mum has reinstated Santa presents for me! Just so i could still have some bits to open on the day. She’s promised to tell me if she decides to stop! But the first year I had no idea she was going to do it, really did feel like Santa had come

Just carry on as normal and don't keep talking about there not being a Santa.
So they can still write a 'Santa letter' so you know what they would like.
We still all have stockings, our favourite part of Christmas, even tho we're all adults in the family . They even get left out empty and filled when not looking.
Beyond that we make it w family day, games and a film as well as usual Christmas food etc.

The first Christmas Eve they didn't believe I worried would be a let down but I made a Christmas Eve buffet, and watched a film then new bubble bath, hot chocolatrn and bed (this was before Christmas Eve PJs and Christmas Eve boxes were a thing)

Try and find something you've not done before which can become a new, more grown up Christmas decision - help them still find Christmas magical

@RockingMyFiftiesNot

Just carry on as normal and don't keep talking about there not being a Santa. So they can still write a 'Santa letter' so you know what they would like. We still all have stockings, our favourite part of Christmas, even tho we're all adults in the family . They even get left out empty and filled when not looking. Beyond that we make it w family day, games and a film as well as usual Christmas food etc.

The first Christmas Eve they didn't believe I worried would be a let down but I made a Christmas Eve buffet, and watched a film then new bubble bath, hot chocolatrn and bed (this was before Christmas Eve PJs and Christmas Eve boxes were a thing)

Try and find something you've not done before which can become a new, more grown up Christmas decision - help them still find Christmas magical

Tradition not decision, autocorrect failure!

Ha I'm nearly 30 and when I go home to my mum's for Christmas I still get a stocking and my wee sister (in her mid 20s) has to go into the living room to check Santa came. It's all a bit of silliness but it's good fun keeping traditions even though our family has changed so much.