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Explaining Santa coming before Christmas Day. Ideas?

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The time is coming up for us to either do a dinner/get together on Christmas eve, or have family come to visit us on Christmas day instead (probably a combo of both_, so DD can stay home on Christmas Day and we can relax. Right now we are all local to family, but it is still alot of driving involved and it makes for one long day.

If you celebrate Christmas before actual 12/25, how do you explain to LO's about Santa coming early? (if they still believe).  Right now all gifts for DD come from "Santa". not from us or grandparents.

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  • crazynervouscrazynervous
    We never tell them Santa is coming early. We just tell them he is coming that night and then keep them away from other kids till after Xmas. I think we had him ome once on the 23rd.
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  • LeoChicLeoChic

    Santa always comes on Christmas Eve. We celebrate Christmas with H's family on Christmas Eve and with my family on Christmas night. Our family (H, myself, and our girls) celebrate together on Christmas morning.

     The kids have always received gifts from family members and us that are separate from Santa gifts.  We even wrap Santa gifts in special wrapping paper. It's strange to me that you would only have gifts to your kids from Santa but to each their own.

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    imagecrazynervous:
    We never tell them Santa is coming early. We just tell them he is coming that night and then keep them away from other kids till after Xmas. I think we had him ome once on the 23rd.

    This is what we have done. But we have to explain to the adults of our family that Santa came that day. They will try and argue with DS about when Santa is suppose to come.

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  • peekaboo716peekaboo716 member
    imageLeoChic:

    The kids have always received gifts from family members and us that are separate from Santa gifts.  We even wrap Santa gifts in special wrapping paper. It's strange to me that you would only have gifts to your kids from Santa but to each their own.

    We do this too. We always end up celebrating with my side of the family not on the holiday, but Santa still comes Christmas Eve so we can open those presents Christmas morning. So, this year, for example, we will celebrate with my side of the family a week early. The kids get a few gifts from us, my sisters, grandparents, but the bulk comes Christmas morning at our house.

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  • bebemamabebemama member
    imagelmdbww:

    The time is coming up for us to either do a dinner/get together on Christmas eve, or have family come to visit us on Christmas day instead (probably a combo of both_, so DD can stay home on Christmas Day and we can relax. Right now we are all local to family, but it is still alot of driving involved and it makes for one long day.

    If you celebrate Christmas before actual 12/25, how do you explain to LO's about Santa coming early? (if they still believe).  Right now all gifts for DD come from "Santa". not from us or grandparents.

    I'm confused?

    Why would Santa need to come early if you'll be home all day on Christmas? Why are gifts from the grandparents from santa and not grandparents?  And your missing all of your families traditions so your dd can stay home and "relax"? How do your families feel about that? Isnt ?

    We host christmas eve, everyone leaves around midnight, I clean ( needs to be nice for Santa!), arrange all the gifts, get up at crack of dawn with kids, go to my moms for brunch and then to the in laws for a very long and extravagant dinner! Sure it's tiring (exhausting)  but it's Christmas!   

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  • lmdbwwlmdbww
    imagebebemama:
    I'm confused?

    Why would Santa need to come early if you'll be home all day on Christmas? Why are gifts from the grandparents from santa and not grandparents?  And your missing all of your families traditions so your dd can stay home and "relax"? How do your families feel about that? Isnt ?

    We host christmas eve, everyone leaves around midnight, I clean ( needs to be nice for Santa!), arrange all the gifts, get up at crack of dawn with kids, go to my moms for brunch and then to the in laws for a very long and extravagant dinner! Sure it's tiring (exhausting)  but it's Christmas!   

    Because if part of our celebration would occur on Christmas eve, and it would involve gifts (and since we say everything is from Santa, I know she would ask why the gifts were there already).  Until my siblings and I knew there was no Santa, all of our gifts came from Santa. I never realized that was so strange.

    Neither of our families have any special traditions that we would be changed/missing out on. But i'm not sure why it's so bad to try create our own traditions?

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  • TheNextWestTheNextWest member

    It seems like the easy thing to do would be to just tell her that Santa comes Christmas morning and all the gifts before that are from grandparents/family?

     

    We go 19 places during Christmas week and my kids get a gift/gifts at pretty much all of them, but only the gifts under the tree Christmas morning are from Santa.

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  • r9stedtr9stedt

    Lucas just knows that Santa comes early to our house since he will be at his dad's on Christmas eve.   No harm done.   Santa knows the exact right time to deliver presents!

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