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Christmas time!

After even more nagging about decorating the Christmas tree, Mackenzie took her chance while I was putting Reagan down for a nap - she hung up all the decorations "by myself" and I had to close my eyes and walk right up to it before I was allowed to open them. And there it was, all the decorations were hung on one side of the tree only and smiling from ear to ear at her accomplishment was my darling daughter! I could have told her to move them, or I could have done it myself but looking into those eyes I realised that her pride stemmed from the fact that she had done it all by herself and even though it is not the way I would have done it (being the control freak that I am), to her it looked beautiful. And after taking my blinkers off, I saw it for what it was, a beautifully decorated Christmas tree with the promise of Father Christmas and the most exciting things underneath it. We live in a world that has become so stereotyped about perfectionism that we have forgotten how to really live, life isn't perfect, it was never meant to be and when we come down to our childrens level we experience it for what it is... So now, my darling daughter has got it into her head that because the Christmas tree is up, Father Christmas will come, tonight! And how, I ask you, do you explain to a cranky 4 year old at 7 in the evening that it is still 35 more sleeps to go before he makes his magical appearance.

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