Wednesday, November 25, 2009

I Can't Believe it's Nearly CHRISTMAS!!!

While all the adults of my acquaintance heave a collective groan about the onslaught of the Festive Season, there is one small person I know who is so excited about Christmas that he can hardly bear it.

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Christmas is now a daily conversation topic, usually along the lines of I can't believe its nearly *Christmas* (imagine that last word said in high-pitched excitement) or I really wish it was Christmas tomorrow, which gives me a mini-nervous attack as I picture all the things I still have to do before the Big Day.

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He decided, as is his wont, that he urgently needed a new tick-off calendar, despite my telling him that I had an advent calendar ready for December. There was no way he could wait until December, so off I went to print a calendar for him (thinking that was what he wanted) only to find that he had grabbed a ruler and was halfway through making his own. However he ditched the hand-drawn attempt when he saw that mine had a Christmas Sticker system.

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(At around this point both boys insisted that they needed to have a look at the advent calendars. Cherub was so pleased with his that he would have carried it round all day had I not insisted that it needed to go away until December 1st. Don't want the crappy chocolate treats melting.)

And then there's the letter to Santa. Whereas Climber would write lovely sweet letters which often included telling Santa (quite unprompted) that he loved him, the Cherub is far more inclined to cut straight to business. In fact, immediately he realised there were only 40 odd days to go he scurried off and put a letter into an envelope before I even knew what was happening. Dear Santa, it said, can I hav a crytal sweeper please. So then we had to have a chat about not asking Santa for very expensive stuff (The Crystal Sweeper is a Lego set that costs around $100). To which he replied but I really really want a crystal sweeper and so I had to say it was okay to ask us, his parents, for a big present but that Santa has to provide presents for all the kids in the world and it's selfish to ask for expensive stuff. (Aren't you glad I'm not your mother?) Once he'd ascertained that there was a good chance that a Crystal Sweeper would soon supplement our already healthy stocks of Lego, he was happy to ask Santa for a more modest item. Once more he wrote and sealed the letter before I knew what was going on, but he'd addressed his envelope all wrong, giving me the perfect excuse to open it up. Which is when I had to speak to him about injecting a little bit more charm and courtesy into his original billet because heaven knows I don't want Santa thinking I haven't brought my child up right.

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17 comments:

  1. I can't remember what it was like to be excited about xmas, I'm glad someone is :)

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  2. Kids really make Christmas don't they! :) Mine are pretty excited too. I like to draw it all out by having lots of fun Christmas related stuff in the lead up as well. DD has already made all her Christmas cards!!!

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  3. Go Cherub go! I am all for asking Santa for good stuff. I am hoping for one of RicRac's extra hours clocks.

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  4. There's nothing wrong with being direct and to the point .... well at least not at his sweet age anyway! My son keeps telling me what he wants from 'Santa' - I think he's pretty much abandoned any belief in the jolly old Father Christmas, but figures he can go direct to me under the guise of telling 'Santa'!

    Also, did you say its only 40 days till Christmas?? (hyperventilating).

    It's lovely that Cherub gets so much joy and anticipation from Christmas :-)

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  5. Everything about this post makes me smile. It's "mersic" to my ears. (WV)

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  6. This makes me long to go back [just for christmas!] to the days when My kids were little! I hope Santa is nice and brings Cherub a water pistle!

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  7. Kids make christmas so much fun. My boy (10) printed off a suggestion list for every family 'unit' on both sides as well as one for Father Christmas. He knows the importance of courtesy, so they are the most formally polite lists I've ever seen. My daughter (7) is nearly hyperventilating at the thought of Christmas and her first school camp. Her epistles come with declarations of love, many hearts, birds and flowers. And so much pink it hurts the eyes.

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  8. Kids make christmas so much fun. My boy (10) printed off a suggestion list for every family 'unit' on both sides as well as one for Father Christmas. He knows the importance of courtesy, so they are the most formally polite lists I've ever seen. My daughter (7) is nearly hyperventilating at the thought of Christmas and her first school camp. Her epistles come with declarations of love, many hearts, birds and flowers. And so much pink it hurts the eyes.

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  9. Being sweet and nice doesn't get the water pistle you know.

    You have to get to the point, make yourself known and ensure everyone knows exactly what you want, otherwise your voice gets lost in the rabble.

    Go Cherub!

    Santa would understand this.

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  10. Little boys are marvelous, yours in particular.

    One of my son's presents is a whoopie cushion, a device which makes flatulence noises when one sits on it. Ah, the joy of giving!

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  11. That's so cute. My children are of the understanding that Santa and I are in cahouts,that he's letting me know on a daily basis if they've been naughty or nice. Yup, Santa and I, we're tight you know.

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  12. Hopefully it's not a water pistle that you can aim at your mother.

    He'll be bursting out of his skin if he has to maintain this level of excitement for the next 40 days. Beautiful boy.

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  13. Christmas is not allowed to be mentioned in this household until after my birthday...which makes it a relatively short road of anticipation.

    Although it's long enough for me to have to get on the phone to Santa often to report behaviour.

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  14. Classic, and so cute.

    I'm still fingers in ears lalalala about how close Christmas is, though my mother called me last night to ask me what I wanted so I know I'm fighting a losing battle. It's so much more fun when the kids are so excited though.

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  15. Advent calendars.... already?! Oh boy.

    We have done the Santa Letter... only ours was more of a list... that has been edited and re-edited.

    LOVE his excitement. It's contagious!! Christmas is coming!!! Yay!

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  16. What a very Australian Christmas present, a water pistle. (I like it spelt like that.) It's too chilly here for any child who used such a thing to survive intact to the end of Christmas Day... A nice radiator and an umbrella, now that's more the sort of thing.

    Fixit looks great in his suit. I'd employ him in a moment.

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  17. OK. Big smile on the dial. Time to whip up my own anklebiters into some sort of anticipatory (mini) frenzy...

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