If you're going to go to bed on Dec 24th and wake up the next morning, fully expecting to have had a visit from a big man in a red suit who has let himself into your home via your chimney, DO NOT read on!!!
For everyone else.... how did or does Santa 'work' in your house? This is something my wife and I never really had cause to discuss until we had children, but it turns out there's more than one version of what happens on Christmas Eve... In our house as a child, I used to wake up on Christmas day and magically during the night, Mr Claus had nipped in and delivered a pile of gifts, some for me, some for my sister and some for my parents. These giits all had tags indicating who I should thank for sending it, lots of people I knew had helped Santa in his preparations for Christmas and he'd simply delivered them all to us...magically course.
Now some 13miles away, in my future wifes house, Santa was doing something slightly different. He still magically let himself into the house and left presents, but not as many. That's not to say my wife was hard done by, it's just that, the Santa that visited their house had help from the other people in her life in a different way. Santa gave them some presents, but couldnt handle getting everything, so the other people in her life went shopping and bought them gifts too, and they turned up later in the day and delivered them themselves. Only her parents didn't buy things... people who could'nt visit on Christmas day also bought gifts and delivered them in advance, storing them under the tree until the day arrived.
So did Christmas in your house (when you and/or your children 'believed') pan out in one of these two ways? Or are there even more ways in which Santa goes about his business.? Until we had kids I had no idea there was any other 'story'...?!?
For everyone else.... how did or does Santa 'work' in your house? This is something my wife and I never really had cause to discuss until we had children, but it turns out there's more than one version of what happens on Christmas Eve... In our house as a child, I used to wake up on Christmas day and magically during the night, Mr Claus had nipped in and delivered a pile of gifts, some for me, some for my sister and some for my parents. These giits all had tags indicating who I should thank for sending it, lots of people I knew had helped Santa in his preparations for Christmas and he'd simply delivered them all to us...magically course.
Now some 13miles away, in my future wifes house, Santa was doing something slightly different. He still magically let himself into the house and left presents, but not as many. That's not to say my wife was hard done by, it's just that, the Santa that visited their house had help from the other people in her life in a different way. Santa gave them some presents, but couldnt handle getting everything, so the other people in her life went shopping and bought them gifts too, and they turned up later in the day and delivered them themselves. Only her parents didn't buy things... people who could'nt visit on Christmas day also bought gifts and delivered them in advance, storing them under the tree until the day arrived.
So did Christmas in your house (when you and/or your children 'believed') pan out in one of these two ways? Or are there even more ways in which Santa goes about his business.? Until we had kids I had no idea there was any other 'story'...?!?
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