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Christmas 2012

Before I became a parent myself--I had a whole list of things I would never do.  Naturally, I have slowly done each of those things on that list.

One of which was creating an entire room dedicated to toys.  The dreaded "toy room".  I am not exactly sure why that was on the list.  But it has happened.  I gave up my beautifully decorated guest room for a room full of toys.  Now, this toy room is temporary--as eventually, God willing, we will need that room for another child or two.  I am at peace with this decision and I think it will be great for Haley to have an entire room to go play in and not have to be told "no-no" about something.  An area totally for her.   I have to mentally prepare myself for the idea  that the room will never be organized and she will constantly be dragging stuff out and having it scattered about.  I am limiting myself to picking up the toy room only once a day at the end of the day.  I hope to eventually teach her to put things away when she is done playing with it.  And I somewhat try to have that concept now, but realistically I can't follow her around all day asking her and reminding her to put her toy away.  Plus she is only 19 months and I have to have realistic expectations.  She is already a great helper though, so I will have that be one of her "helper cores" of helping momma put toys away.





Clearly all of her toys are not yet in the room, I just did this during nap-time so we will be pulling a lot of stuff out of her room and putting it in here.  I am actually kinda in love with it.  She is going to have a blast.  She also got a play kitchen that her cousin no longer played with, which she hasn't seen yet--so she is in for a surprise when she wakes up!  I am going to get another cube organizer deal to put in this room as well for more toy and book storage.  But this is going to be great!

Needless to say, she was absolutely spoiled on Christmas.  I am so grateful for family and friends.  They took time and thought about her and bought gifts.  She will be entertained until kindergarten!









Of course Christmas is not all about toys.  We kicked off Christmas the 22nd with a family dinner with Ian's family.  We prepared some lasagna and had a great time catching up with everyone.  Christmas eve we went to worship at church and dinner with my parents.  Then Christmas morning we went to my parents and then my grandparents later in the day.

All in all, we had an amazing Christmas.  Our second Christmas with out wonderful daughter.  We had a few bumps too.  I prepared a dish and dropped it on the way into my grandparents house.  My dish was ruined and I got glass everywhere!  I was so mad at myself.  Then Haley was getting super grouchy and was having some tummy problems, so I couldn't make it to Christmas dinner until an hour and a half after it started.  Boo.  Oh well.  The important thing was that I got to spend time with family.  

Now...on to the new year!!!

Comments

Rachelle T. said…
A "playroom" was on my list too. I think it was because I always thought it would be like I was surrendering my whole life to the kid. But honestly, that moment happened when I peed on a stick and got an affirmative :) Bayden has taken over our sunroom. All of his things are in there. I'm happy with that decision though because it means our other rooms aren't filled with buckets of toys. It does keep life more organized. Good luck!
12/28/2012 2:49 PM
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