I guess everyone does Christmas differently. We were so lucky when I was a child - we had Christmas presents from Santa in our stocking at the end of our bed and then presents under the tree from relatives to open later (never before 11am). I was quite shocked when I got married and my first husband's family did it very differently: the presents in the stockings were the only ones they got and they were all labelled to say which relative they had come from. I suppose Santa was just the delivery guy, but for me there was no magic in that, so we did my family's way with our own children.

It must be so hard for families who simply don't have the resources to buy magic santa presents as well as labelled gifts from relatives.

Did your mother carry on the same tradition with you? or did you get Santa presents?

Lovely story. Glad you shared it. A🙏💚