26 December 2018
Dear child had a tough time this Christmas. He knew that the cards might be stacked against him due to the sleep problems. We told him that Father Christmas does not come to children that are noisy in the night. Not sure if we can say we’ve cracked it, but keeping him up close to 20:00 seems to be doing the trick, that took around a week to get synched.
We went for a walk in a large nearby park, hopefully for a couple of miles. After that we took dear child to see the local church crib blessing service. He seemed to enjoy that.
Christmas day was interesting. Dear child was expecting a Volvo or other cars with name badges. When dear child got to the bottom of his presents to find there were no cars he was fairly disappointed. I had to explain that Father Christmas does not give duplicates. Quite a few times. Once dear child came around we explained that we would go to one of toy shops to find something that he likes.
Today, boxing day, we saw a local theatre company puppet performance. It was not traditional puppetry as the puppeteers were in the open.
I’ve been watching Die Hard films over the Christmas break, as is tradition.
Perhaps my own expectations of the festive period should be re-evaluated.