Those of you doing St. Nick's Day with your LO

MrsJMB

Where are you putting the gifts from St. Nick?  In a stocking or somewhere else?

iucarrie

Good question.  I'll probably just have it out on a table in our family room so she sees it when she wakes up.  When we were growing up the St. Nick gift was just out on a counter or table not in our stockings.

fruitcakes

Stocking!

MommaMcG

Stocking.

kelclay724

We do the traditional method you put out your shoes! My grandma is from Switzerland though so I think that's the more "European" way of doing it. Here's a blurb from a site about it: 

 "Traditional celebrations of Saint Nicholas Day in Northern Europe included gifts left in children's shoes (the origin of our American Christmas stockings). Good children receive treats - candies, cookies, apples and nuts, while naughty children receive switches or lumps of coal. Sometimes coins were left in the shoes, reminiscent of the the life-saving doweries the saint provided. Today - especially in families of German extraction - children still put a shoe outside their bedroom doors on the eve of Saint Nicholas Day, and expect to find candy and coins or small gifts in their shoe on December 6th."

BrendaK

When I lived with my IL's, they did them in their shoes under the Christmas tree.

I woke up and was like, WhereTF are my shoes? Yeah, they were filled with candy under the tree. It was a serious WTF moment. I'd never even HEARD of St. Nick's Day.

kelclay724

BrendaK:

When I lived with my IL's, they did them in their shoes under the Christmas tree.

I woke up and was like, WhereTF are my shoes? Yeah, they were filled with candy under the tree. It was a serious WTF moment. I'd never even HEARD of St. Nick's Day.

LOL 

lemen99

We put them in stockings We just do some snacks/candy and an ornament!