Sunshine in little kids and Christmas

It's christmas time and the special someone in my life has the sweetest cutest little 8 year old sister who is at the stage where you can't trick her with the usual things anymore...can't tell her "there are fairies in the back-garden" or that babies come from a stork that flies down and delivers little babies to the hospital". Slowly she has begun to lose what makes her a innocent little child. The one thing that is dangling by a thread is her belief in the big guy in red/Santa Claus/ Old St Nicholas.

This year may be her last christmas where she still believes in Santa. So her mother told me in secret that this year she's going to go all out and get one of the boys to get bells late at night on Christmas eve and jingle some bells and early Christmas day before she wakes up get a big footprint cutout and sprinkle talc powder on it so it looks like snow that fell off Santa's boots. She's then going to leave a present wrapped in different paper from the others and says its 'from Santa'.

Hearing all these wonderful ideas made me smile, knowing that she will have a magical Christmas means so much to me and I'm sure it will be a Christmas she wont forget for years to come.

P.s. I would love to hear one of your childhood Christmas memories that stuck with you, feel free to leave a comment below.



Lots of love x

MLP