On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love gave to me .....
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...... a guest post from Rebecca, a mother of three. (still trying to eek out a rhyme)
Rebecca is a teacher and mother of three girls - a 6 year old and 3 year old twins. You can find her blog full of crafts, cooking and chaos at http://www.herecomethegirlsblog.com.
I have got the Christmas jitters early this year. I always feel the same - there is so much I want to do and just not enough time to do it. This year it is worse. I don't know whether it is having a blog or because of the age of the children but I have a list in my head of all the fun things I want to do with the girls and there just aren't enough days. they do need to sleep occasionally don't they? Luckily I don't have to worry about Christmas dinner - we got to my mum's for that and I'm fairly organised about the presents. I have a few still to get and I'm looking forward to our usual evening of a good film while we wrap the presents. I always put a little chocolate coin into the parcel as I'm wrapping it and sneakily eat a few while no one is looking.
I think I have the basics covered. It's all the fun little extras I want to do which I will run out of time for. These are the things on my list for this year.
1. Make mince pies. This is essential. the big man needs his mince pie and glass of milk on Christmas Eve or there will be no Christmas. I know I can buy them but there is nothing nicer than homemade mince pies hot from the oven. It is the taste of Christmas.
2. Make Christmas cards. Well we are doing quite well on this one. We have made a few and have bought some of the school ones. The bit I need to do is the writing and posting of said cards. I always end up with a few which I haven't got round to posting. It's silly when we've gone to the effort of making them but it's one thing I never seem to do on time.
3. Go to a Christmas Market. We live in the midlands and the Christmas markets are lovely at this time year. I usually plan a family trip to the theatre and then we wander slowly back through the market. There are rides for the girls to go on and beautiful ornaments to buy and we have to come home with some stollen.
4. Writing. Ok I know Christmas is all about fun but being a teacher I have to get in some sneaky learning activities. There are cards to write and letters to Santa and of course that Christmas list needs to be cross referenced with the price from the Argos catalogue. Then after Christmas there are Thank Yous to write.
5. Crackers I love to do a few crafts with the girls, mainly because it's the only time they are actually quite. We've made some ornaments and other decorations and my eldest has nagged me and nagged me until we have done some sewing and made some tiny stockings to put on the tree. This year I want to make some Christmas crackers. It is such an essential part of an English Christmas. We always made fake ones with the kids at school but I want to make some which really work and get the girls to choose a present for each relative to go inside.
I know none of these things are not important. It doesn't really matter if we make salt dough ornaments or have a fake snow ball fight out of pom poms but these are the little extras which make me feel Christmassy. Anyway the house just doesn't feel right if it isn't covered in glitter and sticky tape at this time of year. Right I'd better go. I really should make a start writing out those Christmas cards. Does anyone have any stamps I can borrow?
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