Mum Sarah Sandison vents about why it's hard to maintain the 'magic of Christmas'
Clean the house to show-home standards, food shopping for now, food shopping for Christmas, decorating, visiting, meal planning, present buying, present hiding, present wrapping, arranging to spend quality “catch up” time with every single person you know, work night out, gym night out, school play, teacher presents, negotiations with relatives, childcare over the holidays.
Elf On The Shelf is intended to help your children behave. But it’s minus 3 outside, everyone’s floored by the latest super-flu and the pavements are thick with deadly ice. The notion that someone or something is in your house, spying at you through glass eyes and reporting your behaviour back to Santa, could be playing on little minds. This is in addition to the amount it’s already playing on the parents' minds.
Christmas is magical. But that magic is the result of hard and selfless work, put in by loving parents. And it’s difficult to maintain, given we’ve never all agreed on set rules of what to say about Santa. He looks different in every film and every single shop.
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