Christmas poll

[slemslempike]

I hope that you all had nice Christmases if you do Christmas. I quite enjoyed myself. I got to play my new version of Trivial Pursuit (deluxe, where you have an "abbot" that goes round the edge and gets you new skills, and different levels of difficulty for each question), and Bananagrams, which rocks. I am now back in Lancaster being a bit ill and enjoying my Christmas presents. Also I bought a hat.

For people who also do Christmas in the present getting sense:

[Poll #1113612]

I do realise that this poll doesn't allow for people not having had stockings. This is as it should be. I don't want to know of such deprivations.

Comments

[simply-fly-away.livejournal.com]

I can't remember at what point exactly I stopped believing, but I must have been quite young. I do remember hating the way my aunt would say "of course he exists!" when I knew the truth.

I do the stockings for my girls now though and all of the presents from me are marked "Father Christmas," but those from their grandparents are from their grandparents, if you know what I mean. I was explaining to the eldest (she's six) a couple of weeks ago that Father Christmas doesn't bring me presents because I'm too old. Walking through Tesco on Christmas Eve she turned to me and said "I love you anyway." To my "Weh?" she explained "even though you're not nice, 'cause Father Christmas doesn't bring you anything, I love you anyway." Which is nice to know, I suppose, and serves me right for the "if you're not good girls, Father Christmas might remove your names from the Nice list!" I used to get through December.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

That's quite sweet of her! We were told that Father Christmas doesn't bring stockings to people who don't believe in him, so we kept up a merry charade for aaaaages. This year for the first time we all contributed to each other's stockings, which was really quite nice.

[cangetmad.livejournal.com]

Ooh, same for us with the unbelief thing, so we had a charade about it forever - we were never actually allowed to say we didn't believe in front of Mum.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Even now this year we've started contributing to all the stockings, my sister and I maintain a polite "we will give these to mum to give to Father Christmas to put in the stockings" fiction. It's more fun!

Do your two like the stockings? Is Sam old enough to open his on his own, or does he have kind sisterly help?