Greetings my friends!
Finals week is here and time is precious, so I'll make this short and sweet!
My wife and I have had a discussion over the past few years and I thought I would "take it to the streets", as it were. I have a daughter from a previous marriage (I know, who would ever want to not be with THIS guy!), named Angel. So we have already had a couple Christmases were Santa has come to visit the Brown household. And now with the new baby, the excitement is renewed as he begins to understand what is going on.
Every year we have had the deep discussion involving whether Santa wraps his gifts or not. Growing up at my house we would wake up, head to the living room, and behold the wonders that Santa bestowed upon us! It was like a picture perfect moment, our eyes wide (still half-asleep), jaws agape (drool hanging from our lips like melted icicles) and heart stopping with anticipation!
In her family, Santa was so gracious as to wrap her presents. She had the anticipation of wondering what was inside, but had to wait to see what was inside as she opened ALL her presents. Who wants to wait??
Well, to try and quell this burning question I asked some friends on facebook how Santa's rewards were layed upon them:
My question: [OK folks. Need some help. When Santa comes to visit your house, does he wrap the presents or does he just make em look pretty for everyone??? Just discussing how he did it different for my wife growing up vs. our house growing up]
...and these were the responses I received:
"Of course he wrapped them!!! My mom would always use Santa face paper for all the gifts from santa and different paper for all of the rest."
"The older I got he wrapped them more for surprise factor."
"We had both one out unwrapped and others wrapped."
"Santa never wrapped mine and didnt wrap my childrens. He said we could have more gifts with the money that would be spent on wrapping paper."
"Santa started wrapping at my house when the oldest child started requesting it from him...until then, presents were left unwrappped. I believe this year he will wrap the big child's and only some of the litte ones ;-)"
"All of my gifts were wrapped as a child. This year, Santa told my daughter he was bringing lots of presents, so that means mommy and daddy will leave gifts from us unwrapped!!"
"It's funny how important consistent traditions must be planned. If it were up to me, unwrapped but it isn't so they get wrapped gifts. Time and money should be factored in, though."
"wrapped! in a different paper than what you would wrap your gifts in. And, as the kids get older, Ex: Mommy can always say, "Santa left me a note last night saying the gifts on the left side of the tree are for Child A, and the Right for Child B." That's how my Mom did it for my and my siblings"
"we wrap in a different paperfrom the rest but with no name tags or bows. to me it prolongs the excitement of christmas morning bc that's all we open that morning."
"It's not a decision that gets made, Santa makes up his own mind. But, he always delivered the presents here wrapped. Some years without tags but always in seperate piles."
"When I was growing up Santa presents were unwrapped. Santa leaves them unwrapped for my kids. Bonus is less wrapping and you don't have to hide a roll of paper from the kids."
" He almost always wrapped ours. Except for the bicycle. One year he delivered early. He knew papa was in the hospital so he waited until after we left to visit him. Santa's smart."
"UNWRAPPED, PUT TOGETHER, BATTERIES IN...READY TO GO!!!"
"We always do santas gift unwrapped, all gifts from us wrapped."
And there we go. Looks as if it's a good sample...and EXACTLY like it is in our house. Thanks guys! For nada!! I'm stuck in the same place I started in!
Oh well. I guess it doesn't matter, so long as we remember the reason for the season.
Ok, this was sweet but not so short - gotta hit that anatomy. Won't hit itself!
1st quarter is almost over!!
Only 1194 days til graduation!