Little of topic, but anyone else have to fake santa is real since younger siblings.
Isn't it hard?
Not at all. I mean, it's not like we've had any of the scrutinizing discussions lately (we did in years past, but thankfully not recently), but I've got the feeling that, when it comes to Santa, we're all running on faith, or a desire to believe that he's real. There's always been an air of skirting the issue when we kids discussed Santa, at any age, because we had the suspicions that he wasn't real but thought it would spoil the 'feel' of the season to betray a childhood belief like that.
When I was a kid, I was confused from all the info coming from parents who claimed he was real but never came off as completely sincere, though I'm sure they were trying, and TV shows, which always ended up making the point that Santa was real but had to go through a huge period of doubting beforehand. I got confused, but in the end, decided that it was just so much more fun to believe in him, and I still kinda do, even if there's no logic in it all. And I do think that my little sister is the same way, though maybe in a more 'wishful thinking' kinda way, because what kid doesn't want to hold on to the idea that even if it's not something that would ever happen in real life, once a year somebody's gonna bring you a more extravagant gift that you'd never get otherwise?
I actually feel really, really, bad right now because I don't know if Santa will be bringing anything, since our parents already got a us a great present, our big present this year, and our grandparents gave us tickets to
MVMCP, which doesn't leave any presents to unwrap on Christmas morning besides her Secret Santa present, whom I seriously hope is in our immediate family and not one of our cousins. We usually open the SS presents on Christmas Even anyway, so I'm not sure that she'll get to open anything on Christmas Morning. Mom and Dad could always surprise us with a few small gifts, but after our big gift I'm not too hopeful. I'd feel so miserable if she was disappointed on Christmas.
It happened once before, when she was seven and trying mightily to act like presents didn't mean anything to Christmas after she didn't get
anything that she really liked since the gift-givers, most of our family, didn't live with us and had no idea what she was into and gave her presents that are usually associated with seven-year-old girls, i.e. Princess stuff and dolls, neither of which she's into at all. But it was so sad... she was just a little kid and had such high hopes for Christmas, and I felt really bad. She got over it after our uncle brought over a little doggie for our present, something she'd always wanted like crazy, but it was very sad for a while. I'm hoping that doesn't happen again this year. She's older now and probably won't be as open about showing her disappointment, but I'll still know.
ETA:
MrsSparrow.. said:
Does anyone else have christmas stockings at your house? We have these nifty ones we bought from Disney World, they rock!
Yeah, we just hung ours up on the TV shelf the other day.
: They're really pretty- green and red felt instead of the usual white and red furry kind, and we each stuck a token character plushie (or plastic figure) inside; my sister has the Christmas Taco Bell chihuahua, one brother has a Jack Skellington plush, the other brother has a [formerly] talking Hermie the Misfit Elf, and I've got Dr. McCoy poking out of mine.
