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Well what an eventful Christmas!  I don’t know about the kids being tired, I feel like I haven’t slept for a week!

The fun started Christmas eve when our 3 year old decided bedtime really was not an option for him.  When making a sneaky run for it out of his bedroom, he slipped on the wooden floor and went head-first into the corner of the stair-gate.  The bump on his forehead emerged before our eyes, and the screaming of ‘Leave me alone’ and crying went well on until 11pm.  When he finally drifted off to sleep I sat next to him with a bag of frozen peas on his head in the hope it would lessen the lump and bruising for the photos Christmas day.  That was pointless looking at his poor head now!

Anyway, the fall obviously didn’t effect him too much because both boys were up at 5:30am.  The magic of Christmas through a child’s eyes is lovely to see.  The look on their faces was a picture in itself when they saw the treats left for Santa had gone, and Rudolph had taken a bite out of his carrot.  By the time they saw their sacks filled to the top my eldest was literally shaking with excitement!

Half an hour later with paper strewn everywhere along with cardboard galore and instruction manuals aplenty, we had 3 very happy little men.  With my DH doing the cooking this year, it was up to me to make up all toys for 3 boys at the same time with them getting increasingly frustrated that I didn’t have more pairs of hands! By 10am I was ready for bed again!

It’s now been only 2 days since Christmas day and already the familiar phrase, ‘I’ve got nothing to do’, has come from one of my little mens mouths. With a playroom full of new toys I didn’t expect to hear that for at least another week! Nevermind, with Christmas now over, I’ve  got my 5 year olds birthday party to organise for January.  With the thought of amusing 27 of his classmates at the front of my mind, I reckon the stress of Christmas was a breeze!