We live 5 hours north of my family and 6 hours from DH's. For those of you that pretend that Santa is real for your LOs, how do you do it if you have to travel for family? I remember hardly being able to sleep and waking up at the ass crack of dawn to run to the Christmas tree and see what the guy brought me. I loved it. I want the same for DD but the way things are now, we'll never be home Christmas Eve.
Re: Santa woes
if you go away but come back sometime during the night christmas eve you could have the kids go to the car and have someone stay with them in the car while someone else puts out the presants before you leave (however when they get older they may notice when you come home and they walk in)