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magical things that were done for you as kids..what were they?

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helsi · 03/12/2004 18:10

My dad used to burn a match and then using one of my Sindis shoes made small footprints from the soot - for years I thought it was the fairies that had left footprints on the windowsill. We alo had a poster of Santa that went on the living room door the wrong way round when we got to bed but when we got up in the morning - if he had been it was the right way round.
Xmas was so magical for me I would love to be able to fell like that again.

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Nik72 · 03/12/2004 19:04

Not magical strictly speaking but my Dad used to sometimes let us stay up late on a cold winters night then we'd wrap up in duvets, go into the back garden & he'd teach us the names of all the stars....

Thecattlearemerloting · 03/12/2004 19:16

aww how lovely helsi and Nik72.

My mum made up a story about Tinkerbell the fairly who used to live in a tea caddy on a shelf in our kitchen. Well you can imagine how magical that was, when I started at school and the Teacher also had a magic fairy help her called Tinkerbell.

lockets · 03/12/2004 19:25

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Roisin · 04/12/2004 18:35

One birthday I woke up to find my curtains had transformed into 'Paddington' curtains, and my lampshade, duvet cover and pillow case! It's an incredibly vivid memory, and in fact is the only birthday present I can remember, it was so magical

moondog · 04/12/2004 18:39

Ahhhh, this is so lovely!
There's nothing like being little and feeling that anything is possible.

The treasure hunts (clues were rhyming couplets written in copperplate) my father set for us on birthdays, and waking up one morning to discover that my (v. artistic) mother had covered my school exercise books and drawn beautiful flowers on them

Donbean · 04/12/2004 18:55

Ah, a woman that i work with puts little dabs of glitter on her childrens cheek while they are asleep on Christmas eve and tells them that father Christmas must have kissed them in the night. It made me cry when she told me!

SantaGoesToTheGym · 04/12/2004 19:06

Made me cry just reading it !!!!!!

One of our neighbours used to the following and I fully intend doing it.

He used to buy an extra long piece of bamboo, and attach a sparkler to it and pass it by the childrens bed room window on Christmas Eve and his wife would be putting them to bed (curtains open obviously) and notice the fairy dust in the sky. This obviously meant that Santa was nigh and they always went to sleep double quick.!!!!

Catan · 04/12/2004 19:38

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janeyjinglebops · 04/12/2004 19:59

Woke up one christmas to find the slidey bit of the slide in our bedroom leaning on my sister's bed. How they did it I don't know as we were up in a loft room with steep stairs.

hatter · 04/12/2004 20:39

when I began to suspect that FC wasn't for real my dad told me that FC was something called "make-believe". It wasn't quite the same as real, but if you believed something hard enough you could make it real. Never, ever forgotten that.

emMerryChristmastmg · 04/12/2004 20:42

Thats lovely Hatter. gonna remember that as Ds1 is getting to the age where he'll start to realise.

RudolphCAM · 05/12/2004 17:02

I remeber going to my parents best friends house one Christmas and it looked like we had one present each on the floor. When we picked them up, another one appeared attached by string from under the sofa and then another and another...it was the best surprise

morningpaper · 05/12/2004 17:11

Aw what a lovely thread.

We are not really into the Santa thing (see previous threads where I was beaten up and left in the toilets).

I thought we might let dd wrap up one of her dolls 'like baby Jesus' and leave it under the tree on Christmas eve - then in the morning all our presents will be under the tree with baby Jesus.

I also thought we would have a bonfire when it got dark on the winter solstice and burn a yule log, and light candles for wishes for the coming year.

I love the idea of having magical rituals at special times of the year.

Love the glittery kisses!

tigermoth · 05/12/2004 17:23

yes, what a lovely thread, indeed.

note to self - less time on mumsnet and more time making magic happen.

slug · 06/12/2004 11:28

In New Zealand when I was a child, the TV used to track Santa's travels around the world using a 'satellite'. When he got to South America it was time for bed. All done completly straight faced.

ThomCatsAreNotJustForXmas · 06/12/2004 11:37

Great thread. Am going to print it off and take some, well most of the ideas, and do them with Lottie.

I remember my dad had a bonfire and when it was dying out he took me to the window and as the embers died on the ground he told me it was the fairies turning out their lights and going to sleep.
I was in no doubt that fairies really did exist, i'd seen living proof.

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