During the Christmas holiday I didn't do much blogging & my reader had over 800 posts. (Lots of those are cooking/craft/decorating blogs, so they are quick to go through.) I finally sat down to the task. I have been reading all the wonderful Christmas posts. It's so fun to see how different everyone does Christmas, some are more simple & some more extravagant. (Does anyone else ever panic on Christmas Eve as you put everything out, thinking you don't have enough... even though it seemed like enough the day before? Well I do!) But Christmas comes & it is usually more than enough! Now there are some things I would like to do different next year, but I'll save that for another post. But as I looked at all the Christmas blog posts I am more than pleased with our Christmas.
I had a theme/goal this year... I wanted simple & NO PLASTIC! I started cleaning out the play room throwing toys out for weeks before Christmas, not knowing what was coming our way from grandparents (I can't control, just suggest, what they send.) Christmas came, I stuck with my simple theme & the only plastic we got for the kids was 2 plastic utensils that came in the pack I got for their kitchen. It felt like a simple Christmas & I loved it! We managed to get lots of my favorite things, books & games!! Hope everyone else had the Christmas they wanted!
2 comments:
A lot of people are going no plastic. Why is this?
I too wanted a simple Christmas. We only got our girls one or two things and left the rest up to grandparents and family. We figured they would love stocking stuffers more than toys they'd get bored with in a week. It made for less clutter. I hate when they have so many toys that most of them just sit there at the bottom of their toy box. I think less is more! Glad you guys had such a nice CHristmas.
sounds like a nice Christmas! I loved that video of the kids with the fire station.
I definitely understand the no plastic thing.. but we have too many fun plastic toys I'm not getting rid of anytime soon.... and Mona is DEFINITELY not letting go of them.
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