Comments on: How We’re Doing Santa http://dailydwelling.com/how-were-doing-santa Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:45:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tweets that mention How We’re Doing Santa — Daily Dwelling -- Topsy.com http://dailydwelling.com/how-were-doing-santa/comment-page-1#comment-5995 Tweets that mention How We’re Doing Santa — Daily Dwelling -- Topsy.com Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:57:16 +0000 http://dailydwelling.com/how-were-doing-santa#comment-5995 [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Lisa, dailydwelling. dailydwelling said: Works for Me....How We're Doing Santa - http://bit.ly/KjRcg What works for you? [...] [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Lisa, dailydwelling. dailydwelling said: Works for Me….How We're Doing Santa – http://bit.ly/KjRcg What works for you? [...]

]]> By: katrina http://dailydwelling.com/how-were-doing-santa/comment-page-1#comment-5994 katrina Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:25:34 +0000 http://dailydwelling.com/how-were-doing-santa#comment-5994 I think yours is a wonderful idea. I'm wondering.... is it too late to make that switch in my home? Unfortunately, we have fallen into the many- of -gifts- under -the -tree -from -Santa routine. And so now when the kids request an expensive item and I say, "Oh honey...that's too expensive" they simply say, "Then I'll ask it from Santa" Ugh. What have we created?!! With nine children, some who believe in Santa and some who don't, perhaps I can restart our traditions with your idea. Those who don't believe in Santa anymore won't care one way or the other...but those who are still young enough to believe in Santa, and yet old enough to remember Christmas pasts and all the gifts from Santa, might have an adjustment and ask WHY are they only getting ONE thing from Santa. How to handle that? And then when they talk to friends and their cousins about the gifts they got, and they tell them they got one thing fron Santa, and then hear about all the gifts from Santa that others received, what will they think? will they think Santa doesn't like them as much, if they only get one thing from Santa while their friends get many gifts from Santa? In our home, the Tooth Fairy gives $2 for a tooth. It has always been that amount in our home, ever since the oldest lost his first tooth. Then the neighbor kids nextdoor comes over with a missing tooth and tells my kids he got $10 under his pillow from the Tooth Fairy. And my kids look at me and ask, Why doesn't the Tooth Fairy give them that much? Doesn't the Tooth Fairly LIKE them? And I just want to go over the those parents and ask WHY in the WORLD do you give your kid so much for a tooth? I'm not raising my Tooth Fairy tooth payout to keep up with the Joneses, LOL. Ugh. .-= katrina´s last blog ..<a href="http://ourbigfamily10.blogspot.com/2009/10/blog-post.html" rel="nofollow">Capturing the moment</a> =-. I think yours is a wonderful idea.
I’m wondering…. is it too late to make that switch in my home?
Unfortunately, we have fallen into the many- of -gifts- under -the -tree -from -Santa routine. And so now when the kids request an expensive item and I say, “Oh honey…that’s too expensive” they simply say, “Then I’ll ask it from Santa”

Ugh. What have we created?!!

With nine children, some who believe in Santa and some who don’t, perhaps I can restart our traditions with your idea. Those who don’t believe in Santa anymore won’t care one way or the other…but those who are still young enough to believe in Santa, and yet old enough to remember Christmas pasts and all the gifts from Santa, might have an adjustment and ask WHY are they only getting ONE thing from Santa. How to handle that?

And then when they talk to friends and their cousins about the gifts they got, and they tell them they got one thing fron Santa, and then hear about all the gifts from Santa that others received, what will they think? will they think Santa doesn’t like them as much, if they only get one thing from Santa while their friends get many gifts from Santa?

In our home, the Tooth Fairy gives $2 for a tooth. It has always been that amount in our home, ever since the oldest lost his first tooth. Then the neighbor kids nextdoor comes over with a missing tooth and tells my kids he got $10 under his pillow from the Tooth Fairy. And my kids look at me and ask, Why doesn’t the Tooth Fairy give them that much? Doesn’t the Tooth Fairly LIKE them? And I just want to go over the those parents and ask WHY in the WORLD do you give your kid so much for a tooth? I’m not raising my Tooth Fairy tooth payout to keep up with the Joneses, LOL.

Ugh.
.-= katrina´s last blog ..Capturing the moment =-.

]]> By: angie http://dailydwelling.com/how-were-doing-santa/comment-page-1#comment-5989 angie Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:08:56 +0000 http://dailydwelling.com/how-were-doing-santa#comment-5989 I am so thankful that young families like your own are celebrating keeping baby jesus in the spotlight I am so thankful that young families like your own are celebrating keeping baby jesus in the spotlight

]]> By: Rona http://dailydwelling.com/how-were-doing-santa/comment-page-1#comment-5988 Rona Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:32:39 +0000 http://dailydwelling.com/how-were-doing-santa#comment-5988 We never told our son about Santa. We didn't have money to buy Christmas gifts for several years. I didn't want him to think that he did anything wrong. He's now 17 years old and understands that Christmas is more than gift giving. We never told our son about Santa. We didn’t have money to buy Christmas gifts for several years. I didn’t want him to think that he did anything wrong.

He’s now 17 years old and understands that Christmas is more than gift giving.

]]> By: Joyce http://dailydwelling.com/how-were-doing-santa/comment-page-1#comment-5987 Joyce Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:29:51 +0000 http://dailydwelling.com/how-were-doing-santa#comment-5987 My husband and I both agreed to keep Christmas completely focused on Christ with our children. We read the book by Noel Piper called Treasuring God in Our Traditions. An online PDF can be downloaded from here...http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/OnlineBooks/ByTitle/2438_Treasuring_God_in_Our_Traditions/ It has an excellent chapter on Christmas and the whole Santa tradition. The whole book is amazing and I pull it out several times a year to guide our celebrations. Blessings! .-= Joyce´s last blog ..<a href="http://joyfulsurrender.blogspot.com/2009/11/fall-festival-2009.html" rel="nofollow">Fall Festival 2009</a> =-. My husband and I both agreed to keep Christmas completely focused on Christ with our children. We read the book by Noel Piper called Treasuring God in Our Traditions. An online PDF can be downloaded from here…http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/OnlineBooks/ByTitle/2438_Treasuring_God_in_Our_Traditions/
It has an excellent chapter on Christmas and the whole Santa tradition. The whole book is amazing and I pull it out several times a year to guide our celebrations. Blessings!
.-= Joyce´s last blog ..Fall Festival 2009 =-.

]]> By: Kim http://dailydwelling.com/how-were-doing-santa/comment-page-1#comment-5984 Kim Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:46:27 +0000 http://dailydwelling.com/how-were-doing-santa#comment-5984 Every year BEFORE Christmas, my son (soon my daughter will too) goes through his toys. We talk about how there are lots of boys and girls that need toys and we are so blessed to have so many. That God blesses us so that we can bless others. We pick out toys together to give to other boys and girls. He amazes me with his choices. We take them to our church and he helps unload them and give them to church staff. We all explain to him that these toys will go to boys and girls locally in outreach programs and all over the world in mission programs. All of the toys are in excellent condition and we usually give the back of the minivan full. We do this before Christmas and before his birthday. It reminds everyone involved about giving. The church staff is amazed by my son's reactions, too. He loves it! .-= Kim´s last blog ..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MomTriedIt/~3/6IaXCXHQtwE/personal-placemats.html" rel="nofollow">Personal Placemats</a> =-. Every year BEFORE Christmas, my son (soon my daughter will too) goes through his toys. We talk about how there are lots of boys and girls that need toys and we are so blessed to have so many. That God blesses us so that we can bless others. We pick out toys together to give to other boys and girls. He amazes me with his choices. We take them to our church and he helps unload them and give them to church staff. We all explain to him that these toys will go to boys and girls locally in outreach programs and all over the world in mission programs. All of the toys are in excellent condition and we usually give the back of the minivan full. We do this before Christmas and before his birthday. It reminds everyone involved about giving. The church staff is amazed by my son’s reactions, too. He loves it!
.-= Kim´s last blog ..Personal Placemats =-.

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