So often I am dealing with the negative aspects of our children. This afternoon I had a good mummy moment when Master 8 and I were talking about Christmas. For the first time since his dad and I split, our children will be spending all of Christmas with me and even New Year too. My ex is going to Australia with his girlfriend (I say girlfriend but as she is over 50 that seems a strange description of her) so I am able to enjoy the children for the whole time. Most importantly, they don't have to swap homes at lunchtime on Christmas Day which has happened for the last four years.
We are all going to stay in Auckland and have Christmas Day with my husband's family - two brothers, wives and children plus the lovely grandparents. It is going to be wonderful, casual and relaxed. Master 8 really likes his cousins, all boys, and we have fun together.
I said we would need to tell Father Christmas where we are going to be on Christmas Day otherwise he will deliver presents to our house and we won't be here. Master 8 said, well, it would be a lovely surprise when we come home then. I questioned whether he really would be happy with no presents on Christmas morning and his response was a wonderful "I will have my cousins, my lovely mum and my whole family, that is going to be the best present". Oh. Breathtakingly gorgeous. I am proud of my little man.
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