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December 27, 2004

Mo's 1st Christmas

These last few days have been a whirlwind of confusion! First of all, as a follow up to my last post, the multi-tasking didn't go so well. Wrapping gifts with an almost 9 month old getting into everything doesn't make for good things. What should have taken me an hour took over 5 hours. Of course, it doesn't help that I waited until 2 days before Christmas to begin wrapping presents for over 35 people!!

We spent Christmas Eve with my family. Let's see...the # of kids far outweighed the adults. It was madness. And of course, all the kids cared about was opening presents, which I know is typical. In other years, it didn't phase me. I was always the cool aunt who brought all the cool gifts. But now that I have my own child, the gift giving (or rather the gift receiving) bothers me. Don't get me wrong. I love giving my nieces and nephews gifts. In fact, I love gift giving in general. I try really hard to give great gifts. But it seems like that's all Christmas has become on my side of the family. It feels empty. And I want more than that for Mo. Don't get me wrong...I think all of my family feels this same way, but unfortunately, they have family on the other side who like to over-indulge.

While there, my sister shared a story with me about a friend of hers that spent over $1000 on her 2 year old son. My sister's friend was bragging about the fact that she had 98 gifts for her son, and was actually disappointed that it wasn't a hundred. What the freak???? Talk about over-indulgent. I can't even believe the parents think this is ok. This child is going to be absolutely horrifying the first time he doesn't get what he wants. And when he acts like a spoiled, selfish brat, the parents will likely assume the child is just being a typical kid. Stupid parents.

Sorry for the tangent people. This is one of those "hot button" topics that really, really irritate me.

I think it's so ironic that the hubby and I can afford to give our daughter all the best things. Yet that is the last thing we want to do. For Christmas, we gave her a few toys, some books, music, etc. But we didn't go overboard. And I have no intention of doing so in years to come. Why? Because I want her to appreciate the gifts that she receives. I want her to have a grateful heart. And it bothers me that she has to be exposed to other children who are ungrateful and expect everything. I only pray that she isn't influenced by them.

Anyway, it was nice to spend Christmas eve with my family. I love my family so much and enjoy all of the time we spend together. And Mo loves her Grammy and Pappy to pieces. Especially Pappy. She can sit with him on his recliner/rocking chair for an hour and be totally content just rocking back and forth with him. In fact, if he stops rocking for even a moment, she will rock back and forth on her own until he resumes. It's so sweet.

We got home after midnight and still had some wrapping to do. I say "WE" as if the hubs helped. Not. He slept while I wrapped. In fairness to him, though, he had just returned home on Christmas Eve morning from a business trip to GA. He was exhausted, as was I, but things needed to be done. Needless to say, I finally got to bed around 2:30 am.

On Christmas morning around 9:30, Mo woke up. The hubs and I felt like zombies and needed more sleep. We brought her into bed with us and played for a bit, she had a bottle, then we all went back to sleep. Until noon. Can you believe that? Anyway, by the time we got up, showered and dressed, it was time to prepare for our Christmas lunch. Hubby's parents joined us for lunch and we finally ended up opening our gifts around 4 in the afternoon. I have to say...that was a first for us! Never have we waited that long to open gifts!

The hubs and I had a reason not to be excited about the gifts we were giving to each other. Why you ask? Because neither one of us had time to go Christmas shopping for the other, and ended up ordering the bulk of our gifts from amazon.com 2-3 days before Christmas (which means nothing arrived in time)! So we ended up wrapping pictures of what we were giving to one another. The bright side is that this week will be fun as we wait for all of our packages to arrive!

Anyway, Mo got to spend some quality time with her Gram, Grandpa and Uncle Matt. She doesn't get to see her Uncle Matt very often, but seemed to enjoy her time with him. Uncle Matt was especially helpful in the "opening of boxed toys" department. I must say...the toy manufacturers package their items in the most unpleasant ways!

We spent Christmas evening with our friends Wendy and Dave - and their 2 kids Andrew and Zach. It was the perfect ending to our day. Overall, I think Mo's first Christmas was an absolute joy!

Pictures will follow in the coming days...when I have a chance to go through all of them!

Posted by monkeygirl at December 27, 2004 12:22 AM




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