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Expectation Vs Reality - Christmas Morning With Kids

In this year of flipping through the Christmas catalogs and my recent perusals of holiday Pinterest boards have a led me to a soundtrack of the Josh Grobin carols

Posted By- Khyati Rathod | Posted On - Nov 27, 2019

In this year of flipping through the Christmas catalogs and my recent perusals of holiday Pinterest boards have a led me to a soundtrack of the Josh Grobin carols. I am sure that there are lots of parents have been a certain assumption about how opening gifts with kids on Christmas morning will be something new that you never forget this morning. That will be something you never forget this Christmas, and this will be probably true, that is just not for the reason you would imagine. Here is a look at the reality of Christmas morning with your children. What you expect and what is the reality of this day. there are some of the example of Expectation Vs Reality. 

 

Expectation:

You will be tiptoe into your children's bedrooms to wake them up with a “Merry Christmas” and a great big hug, and then throw open the certainly to see the world as a glittery, snowy winter wonderland before donning coordinating bathrobes to go downstairs and open a present. 

 

Reality:

You are awakened in the dark by a blur of a child who is chanting “Get up, Get Up! Its Christmas!” so loudly that the baby wakes up and starts to cry. You just look at your clock and see it’s not even six in the morning. As you pull an old hoodie over your form. You detect an odor in the air that is nothing like cinnamon, pine or anything else remotely seasonal coming from your youngest. You know a mismatched top and pair of pants on her because they are the first clean thing you can lay hands on and let your oldest drag you downstairs.  

 

Expectation:

You and your spouse will sit together on the couch with the baby nestled between you. The adults will enjoy a cup of coffee white your oldest nibbles on cinnamon rolls and open his stocking, delighting, over each new treasure he unearths. Ones a breakfast is over. You will open gifts. Your child will want to play Santa and handouts the gifts to everyone, one at a time so you can all share with each other joy in opening presents. You will manage to stop some of the great candids of the kids as they unwrap the things. That is your expectation on this Christmas.

 

Reality:

Your older child is revenous and therefore irrational, so he doesn’t want delicious cinnamon rolls, he wants eggs, but he also wants to open his presents RIT NAO. you compromise by allowing him to bring his stocking to the table and hand the baby off to your husband to be fed white you make some scrambled eggs. You occasionally over your shoulder when your child wants to show you what he just pulled out of his stocking. You present your little elf with his eggs, and after one bite he decides he wants a cinnamon roll instead. Thank god for Entenmann's. 

Once everyone is properly fed and caffeinated, you head into the other room to open gifts. Your child dives headfirst into the pile, which is admittedly mostly for him. You finally see the Christmas snow you were hoping for, only these flurries come from the wrapping paper massacre that’s happening under the tree. When your big kid pauses his frenzy to hand your younger one a gift you look around for your phone to capture this moment and then realize it’s still on your nightstand. You take a mental picture and wonder if you can get them to reenact this later for Facebook’s sake.

 

Expectation:

Your children will love each gift they receive, and your older child will be especially thrilled when they open the box, clearly marked from you, not Santa, with the toy they have been begging for since Halloween. Once they are no longer immobile with joy, they will fling themselves into your arms to say a thank you, and you will be overcome with emotions about what a good person they are growing up to be.

 

Reality:

The baby won’t be able to do much more than gnaw on the edge of a box and when you do manage to help her to unwrap something, she has little to no interest in the new toy, though she will take that empty box, thankyouverymuch. You realize you could have wrapped her existing toys to the same effect and saved yourself the money, as she has no idea what is happening. You completely miss seeing your older child open his big gift because you were too busy wresting some time out of the baby’s first. When you show him about his big gift and ask if he is excited and he says “ yeah, sure thanks ” and acquiesces to your request for a hug while barely looking up from his new prize. You try to temper your disappointment over his reaction by focusing on the fact that he seems happy.