If you really don't want to put them out, send them home with GS and he can have them at his house. The magic is wonderful with the little kids, so I bet if you started getting them out and letting him help, the magic would rub off on you too. I hope so!! I have my pown little magic at Xmas. The first Xmas after my mom died, as I was getting out wrapping paper, bows etc., I noticed a gift tag at ther bottom of the box. When I turned it over, it was from my Mom. It said, Merry Christmas Carol, I love you, MOm. I felt that it was a sign that I should carry on for my little ones. That is what she did, her mom was buried two days before Xmas. I keep that gift tag with wrappings all the time, and I never know where in the box it will be, but each year I get to "hear" mom say it one more time. My last remaining sibling died two months ago, and some of the happiness feels lacking right now, but my grown children and grands will expect everything to be as usual here, so I'll do my best for them.