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Babies: 9 - 12 Months
Does anyone celebrate St. Nicholas Day?
Growing up we always celebrated St. Nicholas day on Dec. 6th. We put our shoes in the hallway in front of our bedroom the night before and would get candy and small presents in the morning. I want to do this with ds but start a tradition of getting a christmas ornament each year in his shoe. Just curious if anyone else still celebrates it?
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Re: Does anyone celebrate St. Nicholas Day?
We do!!! I won't do it this year b/c obviously DD isn't old enough to understand it, but I will do it next year probably!
ETA: We left our shoes in front of the stove because I think you're supposed to leave them by the fireplace and we didn't have one? Who knows why!
I agree!!
DH's family does. We won't this year, but when DS is old enough to get it we will. In DH's family they write letters for Santa the night before, and St. Nick comes and takes them to Santa and leaves oranges and nuts for them.
I love the ornament idea. I may steal this.
Glad to see that others know what this is and plan to do it (at some point) too. Dh thinks I'm crazy and why do we need another day of presents. I know ds won't "get" it this year but I was planning on buying him a 1st Christmas ornament anyway so this seemed like a way to start a new tradition.
Yes, we do! It's very common around here (lots of German, Dutch heritage). St. Nick comes the night of Dec. 5 and leaves us gifts in our stockings. It was always smaller type gifts for us, like little stuffed animals, coloring books, small games; and chocolate candy, candy cane, an apple, and an orange. DH's family also always got nuts from St. Nick. We put out brandy for St. Nick and carrots for his horse.
We'll do it for DD this year with maybe some baby food and Puffs and a small toy.