Today we got the pre-Christmas Christmas box out of the loft. What is pre-Christmas Christmas I hear you ask? Well it’s all the things you need for Christmas without actually being Christmas.
In our box are the refillable advent calendars, the Christmas clothes, the cards (so I can start writing), the wrapping paper and present decorations, the fancy dress stuff and the Christmas jigsaw puzzles.
Every year I tell Jonah (and now Grace) that it is nothing exciting, just stuff for mommy and daddy to start getting ready for Christmas. But I’ve made a fatal error in my calculations here. Of course it’s exciting, because it’s got the word ‘Christmas’ in it.
We went and posted our letters to Santa and we’ve had snowman and reindeer dress up, driving the refillable advent truck around the living room, jingly reindeer antlers and Santa hat wearing and the tinsel halo that Jonah wore as Angel Gabriel 2 years ago thrown around.
Ways to make this whole process less stressful? There are no ways! And actually, the more I think about it, I don’t want to make it less stressful. My children are already filled with the joys of Christmas and I’m being swept along with them. I love it!
This year we are going to try ‘being Santa’ in preparation for when Jonah learns the truth. We will put some toys under the tree on Christmas Eve for Santa to take to fix up for other children next year. And we are focusing very much on being grateful for what we have. But it’s difficult with a 7 and a 3 year old!
What do you do which you think only you do? Maybe we can all find something new to do at Christmas!
The Busy Mommy UK 