Yes, I’m definitely home!

I was wondering what would really make me feel at home and actually there are quite a number of things.  Being grateful for the people we love and the blessing they are to us is so important.

And being grateful for being home and having time with Kevin and Johnathan has been wonderful.  They are so important to me and I have missed them while in the hospital and it’s good to just even sit with them and recover by watching movies or whatever.

I’m not saying doing everything with your family or the people around you is fun.  Sometimes it isn’t and you need to work out what you are going to do about it.  There can be a present you don’t like for example, or people you don’t really care about.  But there is always an answer.

Christmas day is going to be fun.  Kevin will take a video of Johnathan opening his presents.  We have never really done a stocking.  The first year, of course he was four months old and not aware of the presents.  When he was a year old I think it was I had my gallbladder removed, the next year he was absolutely horrified that this man would come into our house and leave presents for him.  He was TERRIFIED and I spent hours of the Christmas Eve night trying to get him to believe that Santa WOULD leave his presents outside the door and Daddy would get them in the morning and bring them to him.

I have had so many different Christmas days - some I look back on with fond memories.  Others, well, let’s just say I’d love to forget.  You can’t control what people do or what they bring as presents but you CAN control what YOU do.  And if your child doesn’t like parties, that’s ok, they don’t have to go.  It’s not the end of the world if you and your husband have to swap being at home with the kids while the other goes to the party.  

Basically what I am saying is that Christmas can be a wonderful time, but PLEASE try not to do anything that you know would cause your child distress.  And they don’t WANT to have a meltdown as much as you do because it is exhausting for them.