It feels early to be talking about Christmas but it feels like the shops have been full of decorations and gift ideas for weeks already. This week youngest small has declared that 'Father Christmas has whiskers, just like the cat' and they have both started their wish lists which include watches, cameras and spiderman suits. I have found the address to send the letters off so my next job is to get them sorted and posted off.
Our plans for this year remain unchanged from he decision we made in January. Christmas day is going to be for the 4 of us. No visiting, no visitors and we plan to remain as low-key as possible. We are not going overboard buying presents and we plan to be careful so as not to over face the children. There will be a visit to a local Father Christmas. At the same time we will also choose our tree together (I do love a real tree) and at the same time the children will be allowed to choose a new decoration each for the tree.
I plan to get the children to make Christmas cards for those nearest and dearest to us and I am hoping that we can find some other crafty Christmas based things that the children can enjoy making and then giving as gifts.
We are very aware that whilst this year will be a quiet one we do want to start some traditions based on those of our families. I want to hammer home that Christmas should not be all about the children (as has been said to me so many times in recent years) but rather Christmas is all about family. Being with our family and treasuring that time.
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