It has started, I can’t believe it, the children have been
designing Christmas cards at school, the school Christmas fair is planned for
the end of November, and a particularly sickeningly, organised friend of my
neighbours, has already wrapped and delivered their Christmas presents to them.
It is EARLY OCTOBER!
I need to get Ben’s November birthday out of the way before I can
even think about Christmas. It is trying to creep in though. Rachel has just
asked me to put on Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer – the Movie. Where did she
even find that? Patrick, rather sweetly, used to call it, the one about the
‘merry Christmas horse.’
The stock answer in my house to any ‘I would like to get’ notions,
is “Put it on your Christmas list, then.” Of course they never do, and I think
I’ll remember what they’ve asked for, and don’t, so it looks like it will be
another stocking full of pants and satsumas this year. On the positive side
Patrick has got rather a taste for satsumas lately.
I heard a story once, about a child who received, among his gifts,
pieces of coal or potatoes in his stocking, which replaced the presents he
would have got, had he always been good. My friend’s son thought the satsuma in
his stocking was like that, and spent Christmas morning wondering about the
naughty thing he must have done to deserve it.
My brother took the ‘Better watch out, Santa’s watching’ bribe, to
a new level, when one year, he told his sons that the red flash of some burglar
alarm or sensor in some of the rooms in their house, was Father Christmas,
keeping an eye on them, making sure they were behaving.
Anyway, it is far too early for talk of Christmas, my children are
already busy planning their trick or treating costumes, and it is still three
weeks until Halloween! If only they were so forward planning in their homework.
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