I love Christmas. It's an amazing time where we can all feel like a child again; the anticipation of the presents under the tree, the decoration, even the gaudy lights.
When you actually have children, it somehow seems even more magical. Christmas steps up a level.
Before kids, we used to have a fun-filled Christmas, but it generally involved office parties, too much punch, and Boxing Day blues.
After kids, Christmas is different.
Towards the end of this month is traditionally the time when we look back on the year often with a little nostalgia and think through what we have and what we haven’t done. We then turn to considering what we would like to achieve over the coming year.
As parents we are so often focusing on the negative how our kids behaviour has not been great – that tantrum they had in the middle of Marks and Spencer, how we lost it and got really cross, how we haven’t handled situations well, how all they seem to do is bicker etc etc