Did you ever go the extra mile?

OMG I did that very same thing with my two. It was a thank

you note for the milk and cookies and about their being good

all year. I know they don't remember that now, as they never

have once brought it up. In fact, I'd forgotten that myself until

you reminded me. I remembered using some colored ink pens to draw holly and berrys' and making the page look

like it was from Santa with scrolled lettering too.

I think it was either that next year or the one after, that the

oldest stopped believing and spread the news to our young-

est. I told them tho, if they no longer believed in Santa or

that he'd come during the night, he wouldn't leave them

something for Christmas morning. But I never held them to

it. I still continued leaving a morning present for a couple

more years, just to let them have one more present to look

forward to the next morning. And I too like to have a present

on Christmas morning. And so that's when my husband and

I do our exchanging. This year, we will hurry to our daughters

for our gift exchange and will hurry through the ritual, and

then if we don't stay for a dinner, we'll hurry home so that

they can go to the inlaws for a day of mild celebration and

harmony. God willing, of course.

Oh you would not believe how far my father went to make me believe..I must have been about 9 and knew better or so I thought but the next day Dad took me outside and showed me prints in the snow, ok so what, but then he said look at the roof, and we were one of the few back then who had a tri-level home and there were animal prints and ski sleigh marks! My mouth dropped open and I believed!! NOW I don't know how he did that to this day...that is a high roof with a long slope!! He got such a kick out of me believing. I think it was the next year and peeked around the corner on the second level and saw him in a Santa suit and he saw me and he got real upset. I thought I was going to get a spanking so I went back to bed and acted like I didn't know a thing but he was just real disappointed that I saw mom fixing his beard!! LOL!

A long time ago, I worked in a restaurant that was frequented by the deputies. I mentioned to one that I was taking my children to see santa that night. He asked me their names. When we went there he called them by name. They were speechless. Another year my husband and I were at my parents house. About midnight someone knocked on the door. It was santa. We got all the little ones up. My brother-in-law had rented a suit and was playing Santa. The kids talked about that for a very long time. Magic makes it worthwhile.

Not only with Santa, but also with the Easter Bunny. I was spending the night with my cousin and we heard a thumping sound in the middle of the night. We quietly crept into the living room and there was my aunt, in her nightie and wearing my uncle's large slippers, "hopping" across the living room, leaving "bunny prints" in the shag carpeting leading straight to the Easter baskets. Now, that's going the extra mile!

That is so cute. I wish I would've thought about doing it that way when my kids were young. Now a day's, kids don't believe in Santa Claus because of older kids telling them, there is no Santa Claus.

My kids are grown up now and are telling there kids about Santa. I will tell them this story of yours.

Reindeer note paper? Did you get that from Hallmark or from the North Pole Stationery Shop?

Your the real Santa in those kids heart forever

Merry Christmas

I was having trouble getting my two boys to bed on Christmas Eve a long long time ago....I went outside, and threw a basketball up on the roof, and "Thump..Thump.....Thump". I went back inside, and said, "Did you hear that? There were eight reindeer on the roof, and I scared them and they flew away!!.....Better hit the beds so Santa will come back"........They were spinning their little footed pajamas off getting down the hall......

Yes ...when my oldest began to doubt ( he was in 1st grade ). I woke him up from a deep sleep and swore I just saw him and when he ran to the window I had my husband quietly shaking bells as if the sled was out of sight ! It worked that year.

Well, I'm not sure if this is an answer to the question, but I've given people in line money when they were short lots of times....I love doing stuff like that it feels sooooo goooood!! And I'm sure they're are tons of people who do that and more....