I love Christmas – it’s a great time of year. Having two small children (5 and 3) it is a fun time in my house. Being so keen on Christmas the tree in our house was up and decorated on the 27th of November – with presents wrapped and placed. What a mistake – the following day presents were distributed all over the house by Florence our 3-year-old who thought every present was for her. Sure enough there were words - mostly along the lines of if you do that again you won’t be on Santa’s good list and he won’t give you any presents. Yes, you feel bad but as someone said to me if you have not been using Santa as an excuse, to get the kids to do something, at least 6 times a day you are not a good parent.
The advent calendar this year is Lego at our house because last year we needed two calendars and chocolate was not always good for two-year-old at 6.30 in the morning. This year the calendar is great as they want to open it to make the little Lego toy rather than just hoover down chocolate. Ah Christmas it is so fun! Candy canes hanging on the tree are one of my wife’s favourites – not exactly sure why as the kids think they are theirs and tend to eat them for breakfast. What happens over time is the candy canes migrate up the tree out of reach of little hands. Same for the breakable decorations – every year we must break at least two decorations before we end up putting them all on the top branches. You can imagine by Christmas day we have a tree essentially nude from half way down with all the decoration crammed into the top half. It is a time for enjoying with the kids, they are so excited, Poppy is wanting roller skates and Florence is after a set of pink headphones – not sure why as she has nothing to play on them. They are naive and wonderful and really do make your Christmas. How else would you have it – excited smiling, laughing kids are truly special and it is lovely to be able to spoil them once a year. Have a Merry Christmas, happy New Year and keep safe. Leave a Reply. |
James Twiss
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