I had done zip, nada, nothing to inject any Christmas spirit into our house... until yesterday.
The boys have plenty of the stuff course. They have already met Santa twice - although the first encounter (at a neighborhood bbq in the local park) rather failed to convince. I think it was the fact that all the kids chasing him for lollies pulled his red pants off.
The guy you see above was a professional and his ho-ho-hoing did the trick for all the kids at my youngest son's new pre-school.
The boys also received their own message from Santa this year via
Portable North Pole - it's a little cheesy but you should have seen the looks on their faces when they watched the personal message from The Big Guy. Try it with your true believers.
Unfortunately my second son's ever changing needs are a little hard for Santa to meet. He wanted blue curtains for Christmas and that darn internet Santa has now promised to deliver them. Although when I asked him ten minutes ago what he'd like he'd changed his mind again. Now he wants a plastic tree and some plastic flowers. And looked at me as though I was an aging lunatic when I asked what exactly those were.
Now that the Christmas spirit has descended (well, our tree is up) I've decided to make
Retromummy's rocky road for my son's classmates.
It's the least I could do.
I'm a big fan of the 'least I could do' policy at this time of year.