Christmas is over

So, happy new year. I hope you all had a wonderful season of giving, and celebrated the true spirit of Christmas. In our house, that is the commercial spirit. In all honesty, I have been buying presents for my daughter since October and squirreling them away. So by the time it came to wrap them, my husband took one look at the pile and informed me that half of them would henceforth be known as ‘birthday presents’ and I was under no circumstances to buy anything else for her until June. 

Her birthday is in January. So this seemed a little mean, but I dutifully nodded along, conveniently forgetting about everything else that I had bought but hadn’t been delivered. My daughter is also wanting a party, but that I am sure will end up being another totally different post. 

Still, we wrapped (it took the best part of two hours) and hid and basically got everything merry so we were ready for the festivities, and come the big day she tore into everything with wild abandon. 

On the 26th of December, she announced that Christmas was yesterday and why did we still have the decorations up? Nothing like enjoying the moment, is there? Well, we negotiated to the 27th on the grounds that her grandmother was coming over 200 miles to see her, so it would be nice if there was still a hint of Christmas spirit left when she got here. This was reluctantly accepted and we moved on. 

Our decorations didn’t make it to the 28th. Still, it was better than the year before when they were down on Boxing Day, so small improvements. 

Also, anyone know any good hiding presents for about 25 birthday presents that are still to come? Because I’m not sure there is any room left in the closet…