A good mantra for kids Christmas shopping I’ve read is ‘Something they want, something they need, something to wear and something to read’. And I REALLY want to stick to it, but will probably fail.  Growing up, when I was small, we each filled a laundry basket full of gifts. With 6 kids it felt like MILES of presents when we walked out at 6am. Talk about a serotonin rush. It was rarely anything expensive but it felt like a treasure trove of gifts. Now whether that was the case or just my perception, who knows" My parents didn’t spoil us but I’m finding it VERY hard not to want to buy my kids so many fun things for Christmas. Last year I learned the lesson that they just can’t handle that many gifts and we stopped at 5 because they were exhausted – we hid the rest of them and brought them out throughout the year, on desperate Saturdays. So the below guide is a mixture of things we already have that our kids LOVE, stuff I want to buy them but won’t, some stuff I’m hoping grandparents buy them and of course some splurges from Santa. I shopped and pinned all of them myself, with my kids in mind (my kids are 2 and 4). Some of you pointed out that it was hard to read what I had to say about each thing and kinda annoying to have to scroll up and down constantly in the previous gift guides. So we created a product board like we usually do, with links below it AND a brand new gallery that you can click/scroll through for t...