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S/O: Doing Christmas...Santa Out of Town?

secretkeeper321secretkeeper321
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MeggyO's post about spliting holiday time made me think of our own upcoming dilemma. I'm not worried about it this year (because H is so young), but it is a topic of conversation for the upcoming years.

We travel (2+ hour car ride) to my family for the Christmas holidays....we head down on Christmas Eve and come home either Christmas night or the next morning.

If you travel and aren't in your own home for Christmas morning, what do you do about Santa? Does he come to Grandma's house or wherever you are and then you lug everything back and forth? Does Santa still come to your house and everything is waiting for the kiddos when you get home? Or, another idea that I'd love to hear....I know this is such a 1st world problem and seems dumb in the grand scheme of things, but I'm curious how other people do it.

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  • futrkingsleyfutrkingsley member
    The years we were at my mom's (which is an hour away from our house), we hauled all of his gifts to her house and santa visited us there.  He didn't know the difference or know all the finer points of Santa.  Now that he's older and is asking more questions, we'll just be doing it at home.
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  • melgradymelgrady member
    Growing up, DH never woke up on Christmas morning at home. He told me that his parents always made sure Santa visited his grandparent's home.
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  • Smuches4uSmuches4u member

    We haul the very few Santa pressies with us (2-3 wish list items depending on scale and price) and stocking stuffers.  This is how we've explained it to DC

    Santa always knows where you are (sees you when your sleeping, knows when your awake, that sort of thing).  Even if there isn't a chimney, his magic allows him to find all the good boys & girls.

    Santa only comes one night a year.  There will be no Santa gifts at the other Grandparents homes or at our home when we return.

    We have managed to stay home the time or two the Santa pressie was too large to haul, and the family that hosts understood completely.

    We also had the request that on Xmas morning we be allowed about 45min alone with DC to experience the Santa magic as our individual family unit.  I'm sure as he gets older and the novelty for us wears off, we won't be so stingy with this experience.  I know it's incredibly difficult for the grandparents to resist witnessing it as well, but they've respected it so far.

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  • MommySteph2009MommySteph2009
    We've been going to our IL's for Christmas since B was born.  Santa know where you are, so he delivers when we are out of town in Cupertino.
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  • tri-readertri-reader

    We bring a few Santa gifts and leave the big ones behind.  We usually load the kids in the car and then set out the Santa gifts before we drive away so that when we get home Santa had been there while we were gone.

    And I think we wrote Santa a letter saying that we were out of town.

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