My Guest post today is from Wendy who I know best from Twitter, but I do also have her blog Cast Away With Dreams in my RSS reader. Wendy looks forward to Christmas as much as I do, loves the same films, TV Programmes and has two Children with similar ages to Tops and BB. In fact if I didn't know better I might say that Wendy was actually me...
Christmas
traditions
Everyone has them. Christmas traditions are
what puts the magic into Christmas, and creates happy memories for children,
ready to be passed down through the years onto their own future families and
throughout the generations.
We're no exception in this household.
The countdown to Christmas begins on the 1st
of December, when we open up the first door on our eagerly awaited advent
calendar. In our case, a chocolate one. Well, if you
can't eat chocolate before breakfast every day at Christmas, then when can
you?!
Oh, and don't forget the tree decorating.
That is a big tradition in our house.
I have fond memories of being a child and
decorating the Christmas tree with my mum when I was little, so this is an
important Christmas tradition to me. In our house now, it's a case of whacking
the Christmas cd's on (well, it just wouldn't be the same decorating it without
being accompanied by a bit of Wham's Last Christmas or Shaking Stevens, would it?! The 4 year old and the 8 year old each have
a side of the tree to decorate, and yours truly gets designated the top
branches as they've only got little arms.
:-)
Followed by me getting in a tangle trying to
wind all the little fairy lights round the tree and trying not to mutter rude
words under my breath when they're all scrunched up and in a knot from last
year.
When it's Christmas Eve itself, the
excitement levels goes into overdrive. Well, this is the day that the big man
himself is setting off with all the toys ready to deliver to all the boys and
girls, you know! On the evening, we'll have a look on the
Norad tracks Santa website to see whereabouts in the world he is at that
precise moment which causes much giddiness the nearer he gets. (Why wasn't that
around in the 80's?!) and we'll then have a party style buffet.
Then just before bed, we get the stockings
hung. One thing they get in it every year
is the satsuma in the stocking. They both get a satsuma in their
stocking every Christmas, and a bag of chocolate coins. Luckily no lump of stinky coal in the
stocking for them which Santa apparently brings to the children on the naughty
list.
They must have been better behaved than I thought.
Sweet dreams little children (and all
believing grown ups!) he'll have been by the time you wake up.....
