Oh Christmas, you total pain in the ass.
All the stress and running around trying to please a dozen people at the same
time, while you try and tell me to look all fresh in some ridiculous white
dress and make a frozen pudding.
It simply does not work that way.
And the gifts. OH THE GIFTS! I will not set
foot into a shopping centre, as I am over the decorations, the crowds of people
pushing overstuffed trolleys around as they go into overspend. I am an online
shopping advocate.
Christmas morning fills me with jubilation
and a little bit of dread, as I watch kids rip open toys that people have
thought long and hard about. Giving a gift to someone, should have meaning and
come from the heart, but hear me out.
And I don’t want to sound ungrateful or anything,
but there are some gifts what cause my heart to sink faster than an iPhone
dropped off a boat. Here is a list of things that my kids might get that will
cause untold stress to this Mundane Mamma’s nervous system.
Play
Dough – When given to small children, they see it
as an entrée and when given to bigger kids, they see it as something to fiddle
with for a minute or two.
Fake
Tattoos – My mum bought the kids a kit of these and
I lost my shit one afternoon when I found them sitting in a bedroom, having
covered, COVERED themselves in fake tattoos. It took a week of Mr. Woog and I
sitting for an hour a night with cotton balls and baby oil to remove them. Ask
my kids now, and they will tell you… These are banned from Chez Woog forever
and eternity.
“The plane…. The plane!”
Craft
Kits – of any sort. In particular ones that involve
porcelain or clay. The only exceptions are those mosaic kits that involve 1000
crystal stickers. We love them. (They take forever to do and are good for quiet
busy time)
Puzzles – well they USED to be in the list, but now we are into them in a
big way, especially if you combine them with Jabba and a rainy day.
Anything
that requires a large commitment of my time –
including, but not limited to the following; kites.
Large
plastic containers that contain a 1000 of anything small and plastic and the
word KIT written on it – aka vacuum cleaner fodder.
Stuff
that I like?
Anything that can be used outside. Think
Slip N Slide’s, badminton sets, cricket sets and the like. Books are good as
are anything beach related. I have a fondness for ye olde fashioned wooden
toys, but show me another Barbie and I will snap.
They say “It is the thought that counts…”
but spare a thought for the parents please, and adhere to these simple guidelines
when choosing your Christmas Gifts, purely to parenting sanity’s sake!
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What is the most irritating toy in your house?
