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I am trying to preserve the magical Christmases of [b]my childhood [/b]for my own children. No part of which took place in a hotel! Seriously whoever keeps suggesting this can stop. If the aforementioned magical Christmas is going to be dismantled, I do not need to sit in a hotel while it happens. The damage is done at that point. Do all of you really have Christmas traditions that can be replicated in a Courtyard Marriott?!? Because I will be cold and dead before my children hang their stockings up there.[/quote]

You can preserve the magic and it may be easier for Santa to come too.  Both families stay in the hotel, Santa leaves presents for the kids at grandma's house so when you go there Christmas morning, magic happens.  I think it'd be more magical to spend Christmas with all the family (night at the hotel, all day at grandmas) than to spend it at home along without the family.  And I'm not even all that fond of mine.[/quote]

As my parents acquired more grandchildren, our sleeping arrangements changed repeatedly. At this point, we have been staying in a hotel longer than we have done anything else, and the hotel is one of the things my kids love about Christmas.

Your magic is not their magic.

I think they believed in Santa a little longer than they might have -- they  saw the additional presents under the tree when we returned on Christmas morning, and they knew DH and I couldn't have been the ones to put them there. [/quote]

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