https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 29 May 2026 20:56:56 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-split-gifts-from-santa-and-you-for-christmas#post-1190871 Fri, 01 Nov 2013 13:09:32 +0000 deerylou 1190871@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Growing up, all of our gifts were from Santa, and we'd get one from the family pet. My parents *still* write "from Santa" on our large gift. I plan to have all of DD's gifts come from Santa, until she's too old to believe. I want there to be as much magic involved with the holidays as humanly possible. ;)</p> <p>@lawbee11: I've thought about this, but when I was young and believed in Santa, I never had thoughts of, "Boy, my parents really suck; they don't give me anything for Christmas!" In my mind, my parents told Santa if I was deserving of x or y gift, so in the end, they sort of got the credit. They would regularly get phone calls from "Santa", and I would hear them talking about whether or not I was being good, or what they thought I deserved. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-split-gifts-from-santa-and-you-for-christmas#post-1190850 Fri, 01 Nov 2013 13:04:36 +0000 LuLu Mom 1190850@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I go back and forth, my parents always had the "big" gift be from Santa and the rest from them. But I really would like them to know that mom and dad worked hard to give the big gift not some mystery man. So I'm just torn. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-split-gifts-from-santa-and-you-for-christmas#post-1190763 Fri, 01 Nov 2013 12:43:36 +0000 bpcmarj 1190763@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My thoughts are that the "big" things will be from Santa when she is little (like the one she REALLY REALLY wants that I tell her "Oh, I don't know, you should probably ask Santa".). Oh Man, Christmas is awesome. So excited. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-split-gifts-from-santa-and-you-for-christmas#post-1190713 Fri, 01 Nov 2013 12:30:28 +0000 looch 1190713@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Santa hasn't come to our house yet, my son will be three this year. He's just starting to understand if someone buys something from him, but he has no idea who Santa is.</p> <p>No idea what we will do next year (not addressing it this year, lol). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-split-gifts-from-santa-and-you-for-christmas#post-1190675 Fri, 01 Nov 2013 12:21:05 +0000 PurplePeony 1190675@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We usually got something big as well as some smaller stuff from both Santa and my parents -- I'm not sure if they had a method behind it though. We got presents from "Santa" LONG after we knew that everything was really from mom and dad, though! In fact, Santa still gives gifts at my parents' house ;)</p> <p>Not sure what hubs and I are going to do -- the baby is due so close to Christmas that I don't think we'll bother this year, but we have to figure things out for the future. Hubs grew up in a country where Christmas isn't really celebrated except by a few people in the religious minority, and US Christmas traditions are still sort of bizarre to him. He was just asking me last night if we're "going to lie to the poor kid about Santa nonsense" and if I was disappointed when I found out about the myth (I wasn't. Maybe I was an overly pragmatic kid, but as long as the presents were there, I didn't care where they came from -- actually, it was a relief in a way to be able to really thank my parents for all the gifts, not just some of them). Anyway, it's an ongoing conversation...we'll probably just play it by ear and figure things out as we go. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-split-gifts-from-santa-and-you-for-christmas#post-1190616 Fri, 01 Nov 2013 12:07:30 +0000 Smurfette 1190616@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Adira: Good point! </p> <p>@lawbee11: Not at all! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-split-gifts-from-santa-and-you-for-christmas#post-1190595 Fri, 01 Nov 2013 12:01:50 +0000 shinymama 1190595@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lawbee11: No! I'm always bitter that the fat guy gets all the credit!</p> <p>Santa gifts the big/good stuff and fills stockings at our house, while mom and dad give the OK things {clothes, shoes, books}. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-split-gifts-from-santa-and-you-for-christmas#post-1190571 Fri, 01 Nov 2013 11:54:42 +0000 ALV91711 1190571@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For myself Santa filled our stockings and one bigger gift. Anything else was from the parents. I. Our stockings would be socks, underwear, toothbrush, some candy, smaller toys and fun things.</p> <p>I plan on doing this for Isaac. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-split-gifts-from-santa-and-you-for-christmas#post-1190560 Fri, 01 Nov 2013 11:51:03 +0000 lawbee11 1190560@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Is it awful that I want the really good stuff to be from us so that we get the credit instead of Santa?? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-split-gifts-from-santa-and-you-for-christmas#post-1190553 Fri, 01 Nov 2013 11:49:15 +0000 birdofafeather 1190553@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Santa brought little things as well as something we asked him for. My mom continues to do that! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-split-gifts-from-santa-and-you-for-christmas#post-1190060 Fri, 01 Nov 2013 09:49:50 +0000 swurlygurl 1190060@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Stockings from parents, and all boring stuff (clothes, shoes, etc) from parents. Otherwise, Santa always got all the credit! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-split-gifts-from-santa-and-you-for-christmas#post-1190035 Fri, 01 Nov 2013 09:38:57 +0000 Adira 1190035@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Same as @Mrs. Jump Rope: some gifts are from Santa, some from parents - no real method to the madness! I think with my parents, Santa tended to give MORE fun gifts. If we needed clothes or socks or whatever, those gifts were from the parents. Santa only brought fun stuff! But parents brought fun stuff too, so it was a mix!</p> <p>ETA: I would say that if you want to continue to do the 4 gifts as your children get older, then you should do it from YOU instead of from Santa! That way you can continue doing that once they know Santa isn't real. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-split-gifts-from-santa-and-you-for-christmas#post-1190023 Fri, 01 Nov 2013 09:36:45 +0000 sorrycharlie 1190023@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Santa always brought most of the "good" stuff, my parents have us a few gifts as well. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-split-gifts-from-santa-and-you-for-christmas#post-1190012 Fri, 01 Nov 2013 09:34:09 +0000 Mamaof2 1190012@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Santa brings the gifts - no gifts from mom and dad. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-split-gifts-from-santa-and-you-for-christmas#post-1190006 Fri, 01 Nov 2013 09:31:00 +0000 BananaPancakes 1190006@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I never believed in Santa, so my parents always wrote "from Santa" on all gifts as kind of a tongue-in-cheek kind of thing. I'm thinking we'll just pick a random gift to be from Santa. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-split-gifts-from-santa-and-you-for-christmas#post-1189760 Fri, 01 Nov 2013 08:36:43 +0000 jmarionsmith 1189760@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@photojane: my parents did the same thing. </p> <p>we usually had pajamas from our parents (that we opened on christmas eve) and either shoes or something we really needed from our parents. the rest was from santa. we will probably do the same. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-split-gifts-from-santa-and-you-for-christmas#post-1189738 Fri, 01 Nov 2013 08:32:10 +0000 photojane 1189738@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>All of our presents from Santa were left unwrapped. All of the presents they bought for us or that we bought for each other were wrapped and put under the tree. After we went to sleep on Christmas Eve they sorted the wrapped presents into piles, and put the gifts from Santa in front of our piles. The gifts from Santa were always the big gifts - bikes, dollhouses, etc.</p> <p>I'm wrapping everything this year though, because I think Sadie will have more fun unwrapping then playing with anything! I'll start leaving unwrapped gifts next year! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-split-gifts-from-santa-and-you-for-christmas#post-1189708 Fri, 01 Nov 2013 08:26:41 +0000 wheres_c 1189708@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Santa gets the little stuff and we get the big gift... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-split-gifts-from-santa-and-you-for-christmas#post-1189659 Fri, 01 Nov 2013 08:06:20 +0000 tlcbaby 1189659@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Well this will be our first Christmas, but my parents just wrote Santa on some gifts and wrote their names on others. But we just believed in the "spirit" of Santa so I knew they were all from my parents. It was just for fun! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-split-gifts-from-santa-and-you-for-christmas#post-1189630 Fri, 01 Nov 2013 07:59:24 +0000 Mrsjets 1189630@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Santa brings the stockings and 1, usually bigger gift, wrapped in Santa paper. Anything else would be from us. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-split-gifts-from-santa-and-you-for-christmas#post-1189612 Fri, 01 Nov 2013 07:53:34 +0000 Dandelion 1189612@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I give the "big gift" from myself and DH and Santa just brings the little stuff. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-split-gifts-from-santa-and-you-for-christmas#post-1189611 Fri, 01 Nov 2013 07:52:49 +0000 MamaBehr 1189611@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH and I just had this conversation. I asked him he thought the big gifts should be from Santa, or from us. His parents did the same as yours, where he only got gifts from Santa. This is not what I intend to do, my kiddos will get some gifts from Santa and some from us, because I want to teach them to give as well. I don't want me daughter to think "I have to pick out a gift for Mommy, Daddy, and brother, yet they don't get one for me." </p> <p>I think we are going to do smaller gifts from Santa and the "big" gift from us. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-split-gifts-from-santa-and-you-for-christmas#post-1189608 Fri, 01 Nov 2013 07:51:55 +0000 Mrs. Jump Rope 1189608@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We randomly pick gifts from us or Santa. Super scientific over here. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-split-gifts-from-santa-and-you-for-christmas#post-1189603 Fri, 01 Nov 2013 07:50:40 +0000 Smurfette 1189603@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I want to start the 4 gifts for Christmas for R. You know, something, they need, want, read, and wear. Just wondering if I should start that from us or Santa. </p> <p>Growing up we only got gifts for Santa. Then my parents bought a family gift, like a game, for all 3 of us kids. DH got a couple gifts from Santa and them more from his parents. </p> <p>How do you split gifts? </p>