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<blockquote data-quote="Hound dog" data-source="post: 107755" data-attributes="member: 84"><p>Jo I like your calm approach to xmas morning. It's similar to ours.</p><p></p><p>From the time our kids could toddle I've made it a big deal that they buy everyone in the family a gift. It didn't have to be a big deal, but something they really thought the person would like based on their budget that year. Their yearly budget consisted of how much money they saved up or worked extra for around the house. Usually their gift lists consisted of both sets of grandparents, Mom and Dad, each other, and our pets, sometimes a teacher or two if they had extra money and one they liked really well.</p><p></p><p>Santa's Secret Shop at school really was a big help to this idea for several years. Then we moved and I had to search for another source of their gifts and found the Dollar Store and Dollar Tree (everything for a buck). We'd set a kids shopping day and head out. husband would be with one, me with the other, then once gifts were hidden in the car, I'd take the last child. And if you're thinking sometimes this wasn't the MOST fun it could be, you'd be right. lol Afterall, we were shopping with two difficult children.</p><p></p><p>Then back home again. I'd give each of them a roll of paper, tape, and sissors. Then they'd wrap their presents and put them under the tree.</p><p></p><p>Now after all this effort I wasn't going to have the presents they bought each other lost in the shuffle of xmas morning from Santa. So on xmas eve after dinner the kids sat around the tree and one at a time opened the gifts to each other. They'd appropriately Ohhhh and Ahhhh, then run off to enjoy their haul.</p><p></p><p>Since they're all grown it has been told to me over and over how this simple thing was one of their most favorite traditions growing up. They actually pouted when as they became adults they outgrew it.</p><p></p><p>It's only as Nichole's boyfriend and easy child's husband have joined the family that I realize the impact this tradition had on my kids. Both my girls were appalled when the men in their lives felt no desire to buy their family presents. easy child and Nichole took charge and that changed abruptly. lol</p><p></p><p>I caught Nichole telling her boyfriend this year that he was too old to be going halvsies with his brother (a stock broker) to buy his parents each a gift for xmas. (usually something cheap) That this year he was going to buy each of his parents a REAL gift. *snort* :rofl:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hound dog, post: 107755, member: 84"] Jo I like your calm approach to xmas morning. It's similar to ours. From the time our kids could toddle I've made it a big deal that they buy everyone in the family a gift. It didn't have to be a big deal, but something they really thought the person would like based on their budget that year. Their yearly budget consisted of how much money they saved up or worked extra for around the house. Usually their gift lists consisted of both sets of grandparents, Mom and Dad, each other, and our pets, sometimes a teacher or two if they had extra money and one they liked really well. Santa's Secret Shop at school really was a big help to this idea for several years. Then we moved and I had to search for another source of their gifts and found the Dollar Store and Dollar Tree (everything for a buck). We'd set a kids shopping day and head out. husband would be with one, me with the other, then once gifts were hidden in the car, I'd take the last child. And if you're thinking sometimes this wasn't the MOST fun it could be, you'd be right. lol Afterall, we were shopping with two difficult children. Then back home again. I'd give each of them a roll of paper, tape, and sissors. Then they'd wrap their presents and put them under the tree. Now after all this effort I wasn't going to have the presents they bought each other lost in the shuffle of xmas morning from Santa. So on xmas eve after dinner the kids sat around the tree and one at a time opened the gifts to each other. They'd appropriately Ohhhh and Ahhhh, then run off to enjoy their haul. Since they're all grown it has been told to me over and over how this simple thing was one of their most favorite traditions growing up. They actually pouted when as they became adults they outgrew it. It's only as Nichole's boyfriend and easy child's husband have joined the family that I realize the impact this tradition had on my kids. Both my girls were appalled when the men in their lives felt no desire to buy their family presents. easy child and Nichole took charge and that changed abruptly. lol I caught Nichole telling her boyfriend this year that he was too old to be going halvsies with his brother (a stock broker) to buy his parents each a gift for xmas. (usually something cheap) That this year he was going to buy each of his parents a REAL gift. *snort* [img]:rofl:[/img] [/QUOTE]
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