Is Santa real?

[chicknmania]

I know Santa is real because...one Christmas my DH was in the hospital in ICU. It was just me and the kids at home and they were really little. I was sad anyway but also b/c I knew Christmas morning there would be nothing in my stocking, although, of course there would be in the kid's b/c I would fill them. Christmas morning, in the bottom of my stocking, was a bag of cedar fresheners, the kind you put in drawers. Now, I don't think my kids put them in there, b/c I was up til 3:00AM, and next morning I was first one up. So, maybe they did...but I'd rather think it was S.C.!

 

[PineBurrowPeeps]

I'm not 100% sure this topic is great for BYC. I cannot be the only one who is a member of the forum with small kids who can read. I'm not one to say things that can rock the boat and I certianly won't be checking this thread again but I just wanted to say that some of you are toeing the line here of keeping the X-mas spirit and as a parent I'd be mightly ticked if my kid was worried or crushed from reading a forum Mommy or Daddy left open.
If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all! (A Sleigh accident might be funny to adults but this isn't an adult only forum, come on now!

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We 150% BELIEVE in my house and cannot wait for Santa to visit this year!

 

[Julie08]

Everyone has been very kind and kid friendly from what I see. Parenting is for the parents to do. Maybe Mommy and Daddy should be a bit more careful what they accidentally leave out/open for their kids to get into. For the record, I BELIEVE

 

[ole-crone]

Years ago we had some friends who didn't have much money.

The father was social security age and they lived on his checks. However, the mother was in her early 20's and they had 4 small children. I've never heard another person do this - and I thought it was a great idea.

They always let their friends know how they did Christmas so we could all play along whenever over at their house. You never asked the kids what they got for Christmas until New Years Day. For them, New Years' Eve was Christmas Eve. They would let the kids sit up and watch the ball fall - as far as the kids were concerned all that celebrating meant Santa Claus was on his way. Living in the country, without tons of other kids around, they could easily control what the kids 'knew' and what they didn't.

The kids were raised to think that Christmas day itself was the day you celebrate Christ's birthday. You'd have a nice meal and a cake.

The day after Christmas, they could pick up a free tree and hit the sales. This was before stores started having sales BEFORE Christmas! That way, they could afford to give their kids more of a celebration than if they celebrated when everyone else did.

By the time the kids were old enough to figure it out, it had become a tradition and the kids would rather have the bigger celebration and they continued celebrating this way.

Mary Ann

 

[ole-crone]

Being busy as Santa is this time of year, he asked Sears to hire someone to find out from all the children what they wanted for Christmas. That someone was my DH who had been laid off a few months before from his job at a steelmill.

I wanted to see what the kids would say when they saw their father dressed as Santa Claus so I packed them up (aged 5,3,3, and a baby) and headed into town. We looked all over the store for Santa and finally found him riding up the esculator. Unknown to him, we jumped on a few steps down.

I said to all of them! "Look guys - it's Santa Claus!"

To which 3 year old DS replied, "That not Santa - that's Daddy!"

I got the biggest kick out of that because we hadn't told the kids that their father was helping Santa this year AND they hadn't seen him from the front - just from behind.

For years I've wondered how Ds immediately knew it was Daddy. If I hadn't known, I wouldn't have guessed. That son has Asperger's Syndrome (our other children also show some symptoms but he's the worst - obviously high functioning autism). We'd always known that he had more acute senses than the rest of us, but didn't know why. He must have figured it out from the way his father was walking, standing and perhaps could even smell him.

We still joke about that time. It was hard times but we all survived.

 

[luvmychicknkids]

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That is a really cute and sweet story.

You are lucky!!! As an Air Force wife, I can't count the number of times my kids (when tiny) have grabbed some strange man's leg and squealed "DAD" just because they saw BDU pants. LOL Your's even recognized dad from behind! IMPRESSIVE!!!!

 

[Hermey the misfit elf]

Santa is very very real!! I just gave him my two weeks notice yesterday, I think I would know! You do not get blisters like these making imaginary toys!!

 

[ole-crone]

Something else about that son. We didn't know it at the time but he's also very nearsighted. The first time he got glasses he was in 3rd grade (we couldn't calm him down enough to have his eyes tested before then). His first words when he walked out into a world he could see was "Trees have leaves!" I asked him where did he think they came from and he said he figured they had them but that no one could see each one. That on the tree it was just a big blob of green and each leaf, tore off each fall into tiny leaves.

But back to Santa. It dawned on me just now that even if Dh had turned around, Ds wouldn't have seen who that was ahead of us. He really did identify his father using his other senses and just the way Dh moved.

 

[seismic wonder2]

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Blond hair, blue eyes, AND has money!!! Send her my way!!!

LOL!!!

 

[joebwe25]

I am positive he is real. Even if he isn't, I still believe.
The reason:
One year when I was about 4 or five, I went to go check my stocking at the end of the hall. I saw a video in it and walked down to get it out. When I got there, a Hershey's Kiss fell on my head! I glanced over and saw a green and red flash in the air. I'm positive it was an elf because my whole family was in the other room watching a Christmas movie, and nobody was over.
WEIRD!!!