Christmas

Christmas is over for another year. I love Christmas, and this year we had a very good one. I’d been looking forward to it for months, and planning what presents to buy. I was a bit silly in a way because I bought presents during the year and put them aside for Christmas. I should have just given them to Kathleen at the time, because by the time Christmas came around there were too many presents. For example, last Christmas she got some Little Princess books which she loved. Six months later I bought another couple on sale and put them aside. I should have given them to her at the time because she hasn’t read her old Little Princess books in months now.

Kathleen and Victoria each got one major present in addition to all the smaller presents:

Victoria got a wooden workbench complete with nuts, bolts, screwdriver, hammer and wrench. She loves standing up at it and putting the pegs in and out of the holes. Kathleen also enjoys trying to put the nuts and bolts together.

Kathleen got a set of plastic food, some shopping baskets and a toy cash register. She loves to play shop with it. Victoria loves to chew on the food and the toy money.

Christmas Day was lovely and incident free. Both girls behaved themselves well and waited their turn before opening presents. There was a little bit of “don’t touch that, it’s mine”, but that soon disappeared when the next present was opened. Victoria was actually pretty disinterested in opening any presents, and was much more interested in eating pretzels and playing with whatever Kat had at the time.

The weather was perfect, and we went for a walk around our property (getting depressed at how long the grass is) and met our neighbours for the first time.

So now Christmas is over and it’s time to start planning for next year. Except that I’ll learn my lesson and not hide things away for so long. Now we get to look forward to Kathleen’s birthday in a months time.



-Megz