love your perspective + we are definitely kindred spirits on this holiday topic. 🤎 we do not do Santa either, but recently my daughter (nearly 4) has heard all of her cousins chatting about Santa’s big arrival, so she is in a magical imaginative state + it truly is sweet to watch, similar to what you mentioned with your friend. we do however do St. Nickolas Day in December (we do it on the European celebration day!) + I look forward to it each year! we do it in remembrance of the good deeds that he did all those years ago. she leaves her shoes by the door and we fill it with a few stocking type stuffers, as well as oranges, gold chocolates that look like money, etc that would have been what he actually left for people, and we have a St. Nickolas figurine that we leave there as well from the 1800’s that only comes out that one day! she knows this day is in remembrance of his generosity + in honor of that, we do something kind for someone! last year we made homemade playdoh together + added festive glitter and wrapped it up really nice and gave to the kiddos in her church nursery, but as she gets older we will adopt a child from our local angel tree or volunteer at a soup kitchen, etc to carry on the kindness that he did + make a small impact in our generation. this year we are going to donate non perishable food (I’m going to let her pick out the items) to a local food bank for our area (I will have her place the items on the shelves)! we also do a bit of age appropriate history reading about him that day so she grasps this tradition a bit better, and will add more each year. this has been so sweet to add in for our December traditions 🤎 we do not do elf on the shelf either, but we are starting “The Shepherd on The Search” this year + am looking forward to this new tradition! I have been loving your videos!! ✨
Abbie! Thank you for this comment. I will have to look more into St Nickolas day. That sounds like a very lovely tradition that perhaps we would adopt as well. Do you also do a stockings on Christmas? I feel like I read that the stocking tradition actually comes from the “leaving the shoes out” tradition. Curious if you do both or just the shoes! Thank you for being here and for the love and support 🥹❤️
We do both, yes! I don’t mind telling you what we have planned for this year - for St. Nickolas day we are giving her a pack of wikki stix, hair clips, the drinking straw that you can wear as glasses for fun, Christmas in The Big Woods book, and a kinder egg! We are very minimal gift givers so on Christmas morning her stocking is usually just one of her gifts stuffed inside! This year it’s going to be underwear, a yoto card, a pack of glittery rings, an Amish children’s cookbook, and something sweet!
love your perspective + we are definitely kindred spirits on this holiday topic. 🤎
we do not do Santa either, but recently my daughter (nearly 4) has heard all of her cousins chatting about Santa’s big arrival, so she is in a magical imaginative state + it truly is sweet to watch, similar to what you mentioned with your friend.
we do however do St. Nickolas Day in December (we do it on the European celebration day!) + I look forward to it each year! we do it in remembrance of the good deeds that he did all those years ago. she leaves her shoes by the door and we fill it with a few stocking type stuffers, as well as oranges, gold chocolates that look like money, etc that would have been what he actually left for people, and we have a St. Nickolas figurine that we leave there as well from the 1800’s that only comes out that one day! she knows this day is in remembrance of his generosity + in honor of that, we do something kind for someone! last year we made homemade playdoh together + added festive glitter and wrapped it up really nice and gave to the kiddos in her church nursery, but as she gets older we will adopt a child from our local angel tree or volunteer at a soup kitchen, etc to carry on the kindness that he did + make a small impact in our generation. this year we are going to donate non perishable food (I’m going to let her pick out the items) to a local food bank for our area (I will have her place the items on the shelves)! we also do a bit of age appropriate history reading about him that day so she grasps this tradition a bit better, and will add more each year. this has been so sweet to add in for our December traditions 🤎
we do not do elf on the shelf either, but we are starting “The Shepherd on The Search” this year + am looking forward to this new tradition!
I have been loving your videos!! ✨
Abbie! Thank you for this comment. I will have to look more into St Nickolas day. That sounds like a very lovely tradition that perhaps we would adopt as well. Do you also do a stockings on Christmas? I feel like I read that the stocking tradition actually comes from the “leaving the shoes out” tradition. Curious if you do both or just the shoes! Thank you for being here and for the love and support 🥹❤️
We do both, yes! I don’t mind telling you what we have planned for this year - for St. Nickolas day we are giving her a pack of wikki stix, hair clips, the drinking straw that you can wear as glasses for fun, Christmas in The Big Woods book, and a kinder egg!
We are very minimal gift givers so on Christmas morning her stocking is usually just one of her gifts stuffed inside! This year it’s going to be underwear, a yoto card, a pack of glittery rings, an Amish children’s cookbook, and something sweet!
@ this is amazing!!! Thank you for sharing this with me!
@ do you celebrate on Dec 6?