When did you stop believing?

[roisin]

This is a continuation thread, if required, for this discussion on Father Christmas

Some children (Kangamummy's for instance) occasionally overlook the computer screen, and could be shocked by seeing the title of the old thread on the Top 50 list.

Hope that's OK for everyone!

ah roisin...thats so thoughtful

i was sad i was coming upto my teens i think i was about elevenbut even now at twenty four i would go to bed on christmas eve with the same excitement of i wounder what santas bringing me for christmas

you mean hes not real [innocent emoticon] ?

ds keeps asking how he gets in as we have a gas fire...now how do i answer that one?

dd1 has already started her list! The sad thing is I know that this maybe her last or one of the last christmasses that she truly believes. Still dd2 is still a baby so I still have the magic to look forward to with her.

nightowl my mother had the same prblem with me tell her that santa has this magic dust which lets him come through the window
where does the dust come from? the elves it very similar to what they put in the food to help the reindeers fly
hth

last year with left santa a mince pie and a glass of wine because our santa doesnt like sherry

Ds1 (3) chose "The Night Before Christmas" as a bedtime story a couple of nights ago. He was sooo excited when he saw a drawing of Santa coming out of the fireplace, as the fireplace looks very like ours. Has since been trying to put his head up ours and ds2 (15 months) is copying.

do you think baby wipes are good for soot puff?

I think I knew that he couldn't really exist at least a year or two before I admitted it to my parents. It was the logical side of me. "Well wait a minute... It can't physically be possible to deliver presents to every child in the world in one night..." I don't know why I didn't confront my parents with this evidence. I'm sure they would have said, yes you're right. Maybe I didn't want to dissapoint them. But I must have been 10 or so.

My mum always told me that she left the front door unlocked that one night so that he could get in because we didn't have a chimney either.

I used to think it was great seeing the mince pie crumbs on the plate and the empty glass of sherry! Here in the US it's traditional to leave out cookies and milk (and a carrot for Rudolph), but I tell my kids that he's going to get bored of cookies and milk and would much prefer a mince pie and sherry.

i hate carrots...it took so much out of me to bite a chunk out of one to make it look realistic...i was nearly sick!