10.27.06
Big Christmas
I don’t know how it happened, there was no discussion, no debate, no agreement, it just turned out this way. I married a man who came from a family who did Christmas in a big way. It didn’t matter if it was a good year or a bad year (financially) there were always tons of presents under the tree. I came from the same kind of family – I remember waking up Christmas morning and seeing presents stacked taller than I was. So when our first child was born, we both expected we would put lots of presents under that tree – and now (our son’s 18th Christmas) – things are exactly the same. Of course, he’s almost 6 feet tall, so we can’t actually stack them taller than he is – we tried – they’d all fall over. But they take up a room – it takes an hour of opening presents to just get enough room to find a seat.
The blog challenge: describe your gift wrapping style. We wrap all of these presents on Christmas eve after the kids go to bed…. These presents are NOT wrapped with style, but by two exhausted (loving) parents late at night – usually laughing, but trying to keep it down.
When I wrap gifts for neighbors or friends, I do try to give it the Martha Stewart touch. Presentation being a part of the gift itself. I make the card and envelope, a matching tag, and I may even make the wrapping paper. The gifts themselves are inevitably homemade – and the recipient knows that there is a lot of love and warm wishes wrapped into the present.
