So before I start with this story I want to say this is probably just as much my fault as it is Donnie's but here goes... I wrap and store all of the Christmas presents in our guest room. The kids never go in there unless I'm in there and I've only been going in there lately to wrap but I usually do that at night. So anyway, Yesterday Donnie went in there to wrap "some gifts" in the middle of the day and didnt lock the door. Well, I was busy cleaning and wasn't really paying attention to where the kids were at but apperently our little munchkins followed Donnie and sneaked in the door behind him. Between me leaving Brody's presents in plain sight and Donnie not being not aware of who was following him, Brody saw his "Santa" gifts. So, Donnie kicks him out of the room and he comes to me and says "mom, mom, I saw the scooby doo haunted mansion and the t-rex in the bedroom". I honestly could have fell over. I was searching for this fabulous lie I was going to tell to some how make it better because the scooby doo thing is literally the only thing he's been asking for. So I told him, "oh those aren't your presents they're Cooper's (his cousin)" Which in return makes him say, "Why would Cooper get the toys I asked Santa for?" Good question, Brody, I have no idea?! Even a four year old didn't believe my stupid excuse. I mean really, what do you say to that? So after him asking for about 2 hours if he could look at the gifts but not open them and after me saying no 500 times, he gave up. I never wrap his Santa gifts I always just leave them out by the tree for Christmas morning but now it's a little ruined. I mean if I leave those gifts out he's gonna be all like, Santa didn't leave those they were in the bedroom, I saw them. There goes the whole Santa theory. So, my idea of a solution is to trade gifts with my mom ha ha. She's gonna wrap the Santa gifts for her and I'm going to take her gift to put out from Santa. I mean really though!? I had these big magical plans of Brody running out on Christmas morning and seeing the scooby doo haunted mansion all set up and it was going to be so great. But now, I'm over it, Santa Schmanta.
This happened to a friend of mine a few years ago and she was at a total loss as to what to do. But this is how she handled it and it worked out really well.
ReplyDeleteShe got the toys out and showed them to her kids and then told them that they were for so and so's kids and that they were going to surprise them with them to be nice. The kids threw a fit because of course they wanted to keep them but then she loaded everyone up and they dropped the toys off to a friend of theirs who was in on it. She didn't give them directly to her friend's kids because that would have been a big disaster trying to get them back but the kids had so much fun dropping them off. You could even just leave them on the doorstep and ring the doorbell and run away. But anyway, then the toys were gone and her kids forgot about them after a while and when they would talk about them, she would just say that if they were good maybe Santa would bring them their own. She went and picked up the toys just before christmas and when they opened them on christmas they thought santa had brought them afterall.
Anyway, good luck with that whole thing! I hope this helps:)