Did you ever try to stay up on Christmas just so you could see Santa Claus?
By pinks17
@pinks17 (2192)
Philippines
September 18, 2008 5:51am CST
[i]I was 5 years old when I learned that there's really no Santa Claus.
Every Christmas my mom would give me a big Santa socks to place on our bedroom doors.WE have small socks hanging on the stairs.My mom would normally asked us to sleep after dinner so that we could wake up at midnight to celebrate Christmas eve.So one Christmas I sneaked out from my room just to check if I Santa already put in his gift for me inside the socks..I was surprised that my mom was the one putting gifts into our socks hanging on the stairs.
Since then I would just pretend that I still believe that there's Santa Clause who will give you gifts if you've been good all year.But guess what I would tell my mom..."Mom I know you will grant my wish for Christmas..I want to have a barbie doll and you don't have to gift wrap it..I'll destroy the wrapper anyway so don't bother wrapping it." my mom would answer me "oh santa will give you that not me."
Have you had this kind of experience too? [/i]
Have you had this kind of experience too? [/i]3 people like this
9 responses
@iskayz (5420)
• Philippines
19 Sep 08
Hi there!
When were still kids, and its nearing Christmas, me and my little sister will make a letter to Santa asking what kind of gift we want to receive. My mom tells us she will then mail the letters but would actually give them to my dad. And we will just wake up with the gifts under the Christmas tree with our name tags on it. I can't seem to remember what age we found out that its our parents who buys the gifts for us and that they're the real Santa Claus but we didn't tried to peek to find out the truth.
Santa Claus is really popular to kids. I think everyone and there is no exception, used to believe that Santa Claus would come down from the chimney or enter the window and put gifts into every kid's Christmas stockings. Though it is no true, it is kinda fun believing thats the scenario every Christmas eve. And in our family, we always tell every kid that's how it is.
Ciao! 
When were still kids, and its nearing Christmas, me and my little sister will make a letter to Santa asking what kind of gift we want to receive. My mom tells us she will then mail the letters but would actually give them to my dad. And we will just wake up with the gifts under the Christmas tree with our name tags on it. I can't seem to remember what age we found out that its our parents who buys the gifts for us and that they're the real Santa Claus but we didn't tried to peek to find out the truth.
Santa Claus is really popular to kids. I think everyone and there is no exception, used to believe that Santa Claus would come down from the chimney or enter the window and put gifts into every kid's Christmas stockings. Though it is no true, it is kinda fun believing thats the scenario every Christmas eve. And in our family, we always tell every kid that's how it is.
Ciao!
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@palonghorn (5479)
• United States
18 Sep 08
What do you mean there is no Santa Claus?!?! I still believe in Santa, at least the magic of the jolly ole man. There has always been something that has happened at Christmas that kept me 'believing'. There has always been surprises that were a little hard to explain. And, yes, I always tried to stay awake to see Santa, but I never could keep my eyes open that long. And we still hang our stockings and Santa still comes by, and my girls, now grown, still hang their stockings. After having kids of my own, I found out one of the magical things about Santa.... the twinkle in their eyes waking us up on Christmas morning to tell us 'Santa came!'.
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@pinks17 (2192)
• Philippines
18 Sep 08
[i]Now that I am already 34 years old I know that anybody could be Santa Claus.He doesn't have to wear the red and white robe and say the "ho ho ho"..for me Santa still lives but I see him,his character to each one of us esp. during Christmas.
But to be honest with you...I still wish that I could see Santa [/i]
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@ailema4ever (2668)
• Finland
19 Sep 08
You're clever, aren't you? Well, I never believed in Santa since that wasn't in our culture (I come from Indo) and we didn't get gifts on Christmas, either. So for us, Christmas means going to a X-mas sermon and watching the X-mas play and singing X-mas songs. That's all.
@flance101 (137)
• Philippines
18 Sep 08
no, i never tried to. i dont know why. at my age, i still want to believe that there is a Santa Claus somewhere. funny, i want to see a real Santa Claus, but deep in side me, i know i'd never meet him. maybe its because deep inside this matured mind, the little girl is still there hoping.. :)
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@rainmark (4302)
•
18 Sep 08
When i was young i really intrigue about santa claus,. im very curious who really is. My mum told me to put socks on the window coz at 12 midnight santa will be coming to give some candies and sweets and presents. So as a curious little mind. I pretend to sleep then i peeped from the blanket. Then guess what who i've seen? Yes, that was my mom and dad.Mum and dad was the santa claus!
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@wolfie34 (26770)
• United Kingdom
18 Sep 08
Wow! Only 5 years old? That is young, do you think you missed out on a few years of not knowing about santa? I don't think I was told till I was 8 or 9 and I remember the first thing I asked was, well what happened to all those mince pies and carrots I left out? Poor mum had to do the dirty deed because dad was too chicken to tell me! It's not like you can say I wish you hadnt told me that because you can't undone what's already been said! I think the sparkle goes when you find out there is no santa but even as an adult I still love Christmas! Thank you for sharing your santa story, I enjoyed reading it!
@pinks17 (2192)
• Philippines
18 Sep 08
[b][i]Thank you so much wolfie.Well I didn't regret knowing that there was really no Santa Claus.
Too bad though that I don't have to make up stories to my own kids about Santa bec. they already knew that we (me and my ex-husband) are the Santa Claus.lol.Kids these days are born wise and intelligent [/i][/b]
Thank you so much wolfie.Well I didn't regret knowing that there was really no Santa Claus.
Too bad though that I don't have to make up stories to my own kids about Santa bec. they already knew that we (me and my ex-husband) are the Santa Claus.lol.Kids these days are born wise and intelligent [/i][/b] @ailema4ever (2668)
• Finland
19 Sep 08
You're clever, aren't you? Well, I never believed in Santa since that wasn't in our culture (I come from Indo) and we didn't get gifts on Christmas, either. So for us, Christmas means going to a X-mas sermon to celebrate Jesus' birth, watch a X-mas play and dances. That's all. :-))))
@magojordan (3252)
• Philippines
19 Sep 08
Yup I remember actually trying not to go to mass just to see Santa Claus (that would be usually the time they would sneak in the gifts) For me even though I know that there is no real Santa Claus on a reindeer. I still believe that he exists in everyone of us who believes that Christmas should be fun and about giving. 
