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- Heidi M Simone
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Wow!! So many birthdays and your anniversary! What a special month for you and your family.

- Heidi M Simone
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- Heidi M Simone
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You are absolutely allowed to say your children are bright!Webco1577 wrote: ↑01 Dec 2022, 20:17 Family traditions are great. The one Christmas one in our family that stands out for me is the wrapping paper solution. I have 3 children....all in their 40's now....who are extremely bright...just a little motherly prejudice there.... and one day when the oldest was about 4, I realized that she could identify my handwriting from my husband's. This could present problems for tags on packages saying "from Santa". Not willing for an early end to this tradition of both my parents and my husband's parents, I began to brainstorm. The solution that I came up with was to wrap "Santa" presents in a distinctive wrapping paper for each child. The first few years it was fairly simple...Santa's, snowmen, and angels. As the years passed, the wrapping got a little more distinctive...background color, etc. We played this game through my daughter's Senior year in high school. That was a classic year. Other teens were "part of the family " by then and finding enough distinctive papers was way too expensive to consider. I wrapped everything in the same paper that year...The Twelve Days of Christmas"!" I also put them all under the tree. There was a number tag on each package that went from first to enter the family to number 12, the last. It was hilarious watching them sitting around the tree, trying to figure out who's package was who's!

I absolutely love this idea! I never thought about how one day my kids will recognize my and my husband's handwriting. I may have to adopt this tradition into our own! I also love that there were other teens that were "part of the family" when your kids were older. So cute! The "The Twelve Days of Christmas" wrapping sounds like so much fun!
Interestingly enough, I did not grow up believing in Santa, but my husband did. I actually struggled with how much Santa should be included this time of year. I think I've found a good balance, but since my little ones are so little (2 years old and 6 months old), I got a little more time to find what works best for our family.

- Heidi M Simone
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Aww, I love this, too! Sounds like Christmas was/is a lot of fun for your family!

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