Making Trail Mix

Making a magical Christmas for children

I have fond memories of Christmas as a child, not that ours was all traditional, but they were certainly very special to me. That magical feeling of Christmas, just a child receives. I can not remember when that feeling is gone, but I know I've been trying to recover since then.

I love Christmas and everything about it, because of this and the desire I have for that magic to return early, doing what I can make every Christmas as magical as I can for my children, from 01 December. This is when the decorations go up. We all add our own little touches. My husband doing most of the hard work (like getting the boxes full of shiny trinkets that I have acquired over the years below the loft) While I and the round dance of children from home to Christmas music, placing the ornaments as we go. On 1 December, of course, is also the first day of arrival when I see my kids open the first door on your calendar, and eat the first chocolate. This is where all the magic and the excitement begins and I love every second of it.

I try to hide all the stress of Christmas my children. I make sure all the wraps are done while you are in bed and do not stop when I have only one more day shopping, but still a very long list of nieces, nephews, aunts and uncles to buy. Children make their own little shopping also only his father and close relatives. I leave that until around Christmas so you feel very special.

Christmas music is playing during most of December in our house, we love all the classics that you can only enjoy once a year.

Then, of course, is the annual trip to the toy store to meet Santa! I do not think that I know of a child who has not been in a queue of at least 30 minutes full of excitement waiting to meet him.

The rest of December is a flurry of plays, pantomimes and concerts, carol singing. This leads to the last day of school. Of the total of the last days of school this seems be the one my children for the majority. Apparently, you do not do any work, play, have a little party and finish the day off after lunch.

Finally we come to Christmas Eve, the house might also have a door style to his time with the number of family and friends popping in (I would not in any other way) everyone is a unique humor as the work is done, everything is done and it's time to put your feet up and enjoy it. We always have enough food and drink for everyone. All children are playing together, and became even more excited, running around the house with a great time. After our recent visitors are gone and the children have had a bath we do the more exciting parts. The preparation and waiting for Santa Claus! They hang up stockings at the end of his bed and set aside a beer for Santa and a mince pie (the idea of ​​my husband who can not guess). Once children are in bed I do a mixture of oats and oat shine and leave a trail out (is the magic reindeer food to help fly, must have fallen a few!)

What day is today? Why is Christmas Day! My children wake up early and take their stockings in our bedroom and watch them open their gifts to see what Santa has left them. Then go down and have their "main features". Then tidy up the mountain of wrapping paper and discarded boxes, batteries search AA and a small screwdriver that was last seen in the silverware drawer, children play with their toys have wanted for so long. Christmas Day dinner is always spent with family, so after we all have in our teams on Christmas Day in the head to either house parents to inflict children Hyper grandparents for a few hours. After dinner and more gifts, they finally get home, get the kids to bed and then think about sandwiches remains turkey and cranberry while watching repeats of Only Fools and Horses Christmas Special 1982. Only a few days and the decorations are down, and we can recover home to some sort of normalcy and re-fill the loft with more medals than it started.

In short, the magic of Christmas for children only takes a few ingredients carefully blended. A bit of holiday cheer, a handful of carefully selected friends and family, a lot of gifts, songs, decorations and the tree and the innocence of childhood that can only bring the idea of ​​a fat man in red coming down your chimney for the "good boys and girls" presented. Only 360 odd days to go before they start again!

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