26 Dec
What a Christmas!
Christmas can be a stressful time for a toddler. There is a lot of projection that happens this time of year, a lot of “when I was a kid” talk that swirls around.
This Christmas was a time for a bit of Grandparent stress.
See…my maternal grandparents are down from Massachusetts to visit with me and my cousins, who live right down the road. And since they wanted to be able to see all 3 of us opening our presents in our own houses on Christmas morning, mom came up with the idea of me celebrating Christmas in our house on Christmas Eve instead. That way they wouldn’t have to worry about being in two places at once. Problem solved!
So Grammy and Grampy stayed over our house on Christmas Eve eve, and at about 7am on the 24th I went downstairs to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ in the time honored tradition of hording mass produced foreign plastic toys.
It was glorious. Toys as far as the eye could see and they were all mine! MINE!
Grown-ups like the speed that an 18 month old tackles Christmas at, slow and steady. I haven’t yet mastered ripping open gift after gift, so they get to help me “appreciate” each one.
Santa dropped off a boatload of goodies. Lots of Little People, blocks, cell phone, clothes (ugh), cars and trucks, arts and crafts and even a chocolate thing on a stick that I found in the bottom of my stocking.
And on the “real” Chrismas morning, we got up and drove over to my cousins house and had Christmas Part II. More stuff, more fun, more love…and MORE YUMMY SNACKS!
Check out all the photos from both Christmas’ on mom’s flickr page.
On a scale of 1 to 10, I would give it a 10, and am looking forward to next year.
For anyone who may have missed the opportunity to feel the warmth of giving and would like to send me something, I am interested in the 17.5% share in the Red Sox the NY Times is selling.
