I have the absolute best memories of Christmas growing up.
Baking with my mom, setting up the tree as a family, playing Christmas albums on my Pinocchio record player.
And I swear, McSister and I were in high school and college....and still making my mom and dad get up in the middle of the night to put our presents under the tree.
We would never let them put the gifts out beforehand. Oh no.
Because we had a ritual every Christmas morning.
McSister would ALWAYS wake up first, go sneak a peek at the presents, then come wake me up. Then we'd oohhhh and ahhh together over the cascade of presents under the tree.
I don't want to make anyone vomit here, but think I grew up in a Norman Rockwell painting.
And I try....I really do.....to make it that way for my kids.
But I just don't remember my mother yelling things like:
"IF ANYONE TAKES ONE MORE ORNAMENT OFF THE TREE, I'M CALLING SANTA AND CANCELLING CHRISTMAS!!!!!"
"Carter, STOP gnawing on Frosty!!!!!!!!!"
"Why is there water all over the.... GASP!! WHO WAS DRINKING THE CHRISTMAS TREE WATER?!!!!!!!"
I also don't remember doing things like this to my mom:
Awwwww. Look at my sweet boy in his little plaid christmas jammies, digging through the toy chest with the tree twinkling in the background... 
Sigh. I just love moments like this. Look at his tiny toes...I could eat them up. My boys are growing up so fast. It's just like people say--enjoy this time because they are only this little once and--AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
Sigh. I just love moments like this. Look at his tiny toes...I could eat them up. My boys are growing up so fast. It's just like people say--enjoy this time because they are only this little once and--AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
He just chucked a football at my head.
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OMG! So funny! Why do they always interrupt our moments of nostalgia with actions like THAT??
You crack me up!! for some reason my husband believes ONLY this kind of stuff happens in our house. I keep telling him that all children are alike...:) So cute!
That is hilarious. I can picture my son doing the same thing Christmas morning. Perhaps we should wear helmets!
ha ha ha McJuneCleaver.
Yes, nothing screams Christmas like toddlers in trouble for stealing/breaking ornaments and balls flying perilously close to fragile holiday knick-knacks. :)
We are getting our tree tomorrow and still haven't decided if the glass ornaments will come out this year.
He was trying to give a very Brady "Oh My Nose!" moment...
Haha! That was hilarious!
haha! sounds like my kid and my home! I think its a boy thing?
Too cute! Great memories and wonderful new memories. :) They do grow all too quickly! My babies are 14, and I have NO idea how that happened.
When my kids were smaller they'd always act awful at Christmas time. I was always threatening to call Santa. Ahhh, fun times.
I can't concentrate on this post... where did the commenter of the moment go?... I have nothing to live for now... you've canceled Christmas on me. Where's my football?
Oh, my!
I think all those things you said are the reason I'm not going to fight with a Christmas tree this year. I think we'll try to put it up Christmas eve night and get all the presents heaped up.
Ha... that is funny. Things like that happen to me.
Picture perfect, almost - my favorite kind of Norman Rockwell moment.
And sweet baby boy toes - yummy. The 20 I have running around here are getting bigger by the second, sigh.
Em
I guess that when you're a kid, you are so engrossed in the moment you don't see anything else around you (thank goodness or all kids would be a complete mess by the time they reached 5).
Oh no, he didn't! I'm so sorry you got a football chucked at you. But the photo is adorable. (And my son had those same jammies when he was that age!)
Haha, that picture is soooo cute, and then he turns on you!!!
That is so funny.
LOL! Your mother probably did yell similar things. I mean, doesn't that happen in everyone's house?
You are so right on! I don't ever remember getting in trouble for messing with the tree. We were going to get a regular sized tree, but I just don't think I want to deal with the insanity between the Kid and the Dog. The other year the tree was up, the dog peed on the wall right next to it. Guess he thought I brought the outdoors in for him. That was fun. Cleaning pee off of the wall. So i'm thinking of a table top tree, which makes me sad because what do you do with the presents?! Fa-la-la-la-la.
I love your new blog design! it's all....sleek and neat - what'd you do?
LOL...tooo funny and that pic is priceless
My parents did the same thing, up until we moved out. It was the best!
Okay and the football thing...Its a boy thing, right?? Gah.
Sounds EXACTLY like something my son would do!
I had that kind of family too.
No matter how hard I try to duplicate it...it always seems more like a Griswald Christmas instead of a Norman Rockwell one.
The picture of the little feet peeking out of the plaid pj's with the Christmas tree twinkling in the background? That is Rockwell...who are you kidding?
I would even say that photo is Christmas card worthy!
The Christmas fairies come and sweeten all those memories up when you have kids. I'm pretty sure our kids will think of all their wonderful Christmases and we'll wonder where they were.
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