My baby is 1 so too young to really understand but my intentions are:
One gift (& stocking) from Santa. Any others from family - I don’t agree with everything being from Santa, how do you answer why some children get more and others get less? Being naughty and nice has NOTHING to do with it.
I’m not intending to do elf on the shelf or any other such nonsense. Aside from the fact that it’s an Americanism “for the ‘gram” that I don’t agree with, I don’t see how an elf that causes mischief around the house is exactly modelling good behaviour to a child when the purpose is that it keeps watch over the child to report to Santa each night whether they are being naughty or nice.
Something they want, something they need, something to wear, something to read.
Also a board game for the family to play together (probably for the older child)
I think I’d like to encourage my children to donate some old toys/clothes/books etc in the run up to Christmas because a) it helps to clear out space and b) it helps teach charity.
The one thing I quite liked that I saw on Pinterest is where the presents are stacked in boxes one smaller than the rest and wrapped so they look like a Christmas tree/snowman/Santa etc which I think I quite like the idea of, although not sure how it would work in practise.
We also do church in the morning. When I was younger we had to wait until after church before we could open presents, or we could open one present before and the rest after. I haven’t really decided what my intentions are with that yet.
Generally speaking we either have a meal with my family on Christmas Eve/day or Boxing Day depending on when my brother and his family visit. Then it depends on my partners family and where they are. Sometimes we do a little get together for his brother’s birthday which is Boxing Day.
We’re still building traditions and it’s early days for our little family but my main goal is to try not to overspend on the children. The older child who is only interested in whether he gets the new xbox game he wants has his birthday at the start of December so it’s tough to have two lots of presents for him sometimes. I guess that’s part of the reason that I want to try to encourage minimal spending overall. We usually pick him up from his mum’s later on in the afternoon on Christmas Day and he spends the night and Boxing Day with us.
One gift (& stocking) from Santa. Any others from family - I don’t agree with everything being from Santa, how do you answer why some children get more and others get less? Being naughty and nice has NOTHING to do with it.
I’m not intending to do elf on the shelf or any other such nonsense. Aside from the fact that it’s an Americanism “for the ‘gram” that I don’t agree with, I don’t see how an elf that causes mischief around the house is exactly modelling good behaviour to a child when the purpose is that it keeps watch over the child to report to Santa each night whether they are being naughty or nice.
Something they want, something they need, something to wear, something to read.
Also a board game for the family to play together (probably for the older child)
I think I’d like to encourage my children to donate some old toys/clothes/books etc in the run up to Christmas because a) it helps to clear out space and b) it helps teach charity.
The one thing I quite liked that I saw on Pinterest is where the presents are stacked in boxes one smaller than the rest and wrapped so they look like a Christmas tree/snowman/Santa etc which I think I quite like the idea of, although not sure how it would work in practise.
We also do church in the morning. When I was younger we had to wait until after church before we could open presents, or we could open one present before and the rest after. I haven’t really decided what my intentions are with that yet.
Generally speaking we either have a meal with my family on Christmas Eve/day or Boxing Day depending on when my brother and his family visit. Then it depends on my partners family and where they are. Sometimes we do a little get together for his brother’s birthday which is Boxing Day.
We’re still building traditions and it’s early days for our little family but my main goal is to try not to overspend on the children. The older child who is only interested in whether he gets the new xbox game he wants has his birthday at the start of December so it’s tough to have two lots of presents for him sometimes. I guess that’s part of the reason that I want to try to encourage minimal spending overall. We usually pick him up from his mum’s later on in the afternoon on Christmas Day and he spends the night and Boxing Day with us.
As long as I have bread and tapenade I’m happy 
or I would like some molten brown and an hotel chocolat dipping box
