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3rd Trimester
The Santa thing
Will you do the Santa thing in your house or will you tell your kids you got them the gifts?
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Re: The Santa thing
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Kerri
DH and I just had this convo. Stocking=from Santa. Tree gifts=from people with names. That way, you get magic AND gratitude to human beings!
My lupus Birth Story
Of course we are pretending Santa is real!
In fact DH and I were talking yesterday and I said we have to take him to get his picture with Santa even if he is teeny tiny. So we will start the lying early, at a couple weeks old. Ha!
Santa for sure. I LOVED Santa growing up. I would stare out my window at night and think I saw his sleigh (when it was probably just a plane). Makes it magical, even if deep down inside you know it's probably not true
I remember even when other kids said they didn't believe, I would get around it by saying "I believe in the spirit of Santa Claus." 
The first Christmas I was officially let in on the secret and got to help stuff stockings was lame. Just not as exciting.
We will do Santa this year, although it will be a scaled back version with just a few toys. Baby won't remember, but I will put the pictures in the Baby's baby book so they can look at it some day. I plan on doing Santa for a long time for the kids, even if they do figure it out. Everyone needs to believe in a little magic.
My first Christmas that I spent with my ILs, they included me in their Santa gifts for their kids (who are all adults, but it was alot of fun). I was really touched.
I still get gifts from "Santa" when we do Christmas at my parents. It's reserved for gifts that my stepmom get us that isn't our "main gift". It usually crap like socks, pajamas etc.
We'll do Santa until they know that Santa = dad.
Santa.
DH and I hashed this out early on in our relationship. Santa and I won.
DH was a total geek that still believed in Santa when he was in 6th grade (his younger sister however knew the truth), and he said he was very upset when his mom finally broke the news to him. I've assured him that won't be the case with our child.
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DH and I are kind of split on it. I grew up in a house where Christmas was totally about the religious aspects of the holiday, and really prefer it that way. I loved going to the midnight candlelight service, or the Christmas pageant, etc. and always thought the Santa thing was really weird. DH feels like it can't hurt, but never really believed in Santa past the age of 4, though he does have a much younger sister that he probably wanted to help keep it going for.
I've never done the Santa thing, so I won't be starting with this little one.
I don't make them attend midnight mass or tell them it's baby Jesus' birthday either. I do make sure they know it's in celebration of the birth of Christ and we always make time to give something back to others in our community who are not as blessed as we are so it's a balance between faith and family, giving and recieving...
Not to be a downer, but there will always be that little girl or boy who thinks he did something bad b/c Santa never visited his house... doesn't make for happy holiday memories, you know?