It’s a mum’s life: Christmas is coming…

Every year at this time I start to wish that I’d been more organised and started my Christmas shopping earlier (wouldn’t be hard, given that I didn’t do most of it till last week), although I am opposed to the idea of Christmas starting for the shops etc as soon as the children go back to school in September. But here’s the thing…this evening, I came to the realisation, that it’s going to happen, whether I’m completely ready or not, so why worry? Now that my son is just about old enough to realise what’s going on, I want to be able to enjoy it with him, not be worrying about whether so and so will be offended because they didn’t get a Christmas card, or if some relative you haven’t seen all year complains because they won’t be seeing you over Christmas. So, I’ve decided to stop worrying and just get on and do what needs to be done (that’s the essentials), and enjoy him being young and full of wonder for as long as I can. Apologies, I seem to have gone all philosophical.

This year, we are spending Christmas day at home, but with all the relevant family (both sets of parents, and brothers and brothers’ girlfriends) coming to us, eleven people in total. This might sound like a complete nightmare, but, everyone is bringing something with them, so we don’t have to worry about the expense of feeding that many people, it means that there will always be someone around to occupy Glenn, so he doesn’t decide that he’d like to ‘help’ mummy cook dinner, and it means that he can go to bed at the usual time (or close to), he won’t have to go out immediately after opening presents, and hopefully, we can all have a nice day without worrying about dragging a fractious and overexcited three year old around to various houses. Still have to buy our food bits, but hey…not worrying (yet – although the snow is making life difficult!) But, it will all get done, and worrying about it won’t get it done any quicker (and will also make me bad tempered and not nice to know). All the time indoors will give me more time to make sweets and biscuits to give to people – this takes time when accompanied by a three year old who wants to lick the bowl before you’ve taken the ingredients out of it – but hopefully by the time it gets to Christmas day, everything will be done (in one way or another), and if it’s not, it’s not, there’s nothing I can do about it. As long as we have something to eat, are all healthy and together, then in the end, that’s all that really matters.

Merry Christmas to you all (and I’m sure I’ll have lots of festive tales to regale you with post-festivities!)

From Essex Mums Guest Blogger, Jenni

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