That’s All Folks

Well another Christmas Day is over and as I survey the debris left in it’s wake I ask myself is it all worth it. 

Well, yes of course it is just for the sheer magic of it and it really is a time for the children to enjoy.

On Christmas Eve Santa always adds extra decorations around the house and leaves a small present for the children to open on their beds with their main presents in piles in the living room.  Each set of presents is wrapped in it’s own special paper.

This year after noticing Santa had left the small present on the beds I went in and re-arranged them fearing they would fall off.  I decided to tuck them in behind their pillows where they would stay until morning.

The first present was easy as the pillow was away from the head board.  The second present was more difficult as the pillow was squashed up, so I had to wriggle it away from the head board, moving child no 2 slightly in the process.  I stopped in case I had inadvertently woken them.  No, so far so good.

I then went to turn round, tripped over a toy, fell backwards and banged against the next bed, hurting my back on the wood edging the bed in the process!

I made so much noise I just lay in the dark for a few seconds for fear of them all waking.  Child no 3 murmured and shifted in the bed but luckily I didn’t wake any one.

I then sneaked out of the bedroom to continue preparations for morning.

Hubby and I always stay up late on Christmas Eve and by the time we had finished it was 1.00 am.  At 2.00 am the children had woken up!  NOooooooooo.  "Can we open the presents?" was how I was woken up from my deep sleep.  I managed to get them to go back to bed for a bit longer.

Part of me was going to let them as they were so excited, but then it would all have been over.  So, eventually at 6.00 am I let them open them.  In between this time they had stayed awake and nearly every hour my one son kept asking if ‘it was time yet?’

Still, it’s what makes Christmas isn’t it?

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