I am not good at waiting. Especially if I am excited about something. I can’t tell you how many times over the past 2 weeks I have almost given in and given Kahlan one of her Christmas gifts.
Before Scott and I had Kahlan we never waited until Christmas morning to open our gifts. I couldn’t handle the excitement. And after asking for about the billionth time what he had gotten me, my husband finally would just say do you just want to open them and as much as there was a part of me that knew I should wait until Christmas I couldn’t resist opening all the shiny presents.
Since we have had Kahlan, we haven’t opened presents early. We have waited until Christmas morning. This year I have kept all the presents in a secret place in the basement for 2 reasons: first so that she is surprised when she runs down the stairs on Christmas morning and sees all the presents and finds Murray sitting under the Christmas tree and second because I am not sure if I am strong enough to say no to her if she really wants to open one of the gifts.
I am so excited about Christmas this year. It is going to be a long week waiting for Sunday. But I know when my daughter sees all those beautiful presents under the tree and opens her special present from Santa it is going to be worth the wait to see the smile on her face.
Now the only other thing I have to worry about is trying to keep her healthy this year. Her 1st Christmas she ended up with a cold and pink eye and was miserable and last year she got the flu, also very very icky.
I guess the waiting continues…
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