It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

December has arrived which can only mean one thing……it’s officially time to get Christmassy!

I haven’t always been one for celebrating Christmas. In fact, if i’m totally honest with you, until i became a mother i despised Christmas. As a child with divorced parents, the ‘holiday’ season usually only meant one thing; my sister and i were always split up from our other siblings and pushed from pillar to post whilst members of both sides of the family demanded an ‘equal share’ in the amount of time spent with us. Christmas was just a constant reminder of the fact our family was broken and that feeling haunted me right up in to adulthood.

However, that feeling immediately subsided when i became a mother. Children have a way of doing that to you. Granted Riley spent his first Christmas in NICU but the nurses did everything in their power to make it a special one for him, for all of the babies actually. I will never forget arriving at the hospital on Christmas day and discovering that ‘Father Christmas’ had visited overnight and left every baby a personalised stocking full of gifts. They’d even had a photo of Riley made into a glass bauble that was hanging beautifully from his incubator. To them it was just a little gesture but to me (and the other parents i’m sure), it truly meant the world. I suddenly became really rather excited about the prospect of Christmas and promised from that moment on that i would always make sure it was a special and enjoyable time for my babies.

Harry is still a little too young to understand what is going on, but now at 3, Riley fully comprehends that Christmas is on the way and santa will be visiting soon with presents. In fact, i’m pretty sure all he is interested in is the presents, but to see his little face light up when he talks about it and hear him so excited is just incredible! I mean, by the end of November i’d done all of my Christmas shopping, had cards written out and had even made the boys an advent calendar village. That has NEVER happened. So, either i’ve far too much time on my hands or i am genuinely excited.

I think the festive spirit has rubbed off on daddy too because when we discovered the range of christmas trees in Tesco at the weekend, one magically made its way home with us and now has pride of place in the front room! It looks beautiful and Riley did a great job of decorating it considering his little brother was being a tiny terror and pulling all of the baubles off.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas guys and girls! Now we just need a visit to santa’s grotto and some treats for the Christmas Eve boxes and we’re all ready for the BIG DAY!

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