The perfect Christmas does not exists, just roll with it
I am one of those people that are obsessed with Christmas. I live the whole year through just waiting for December to come. I'm as festive as they come, just call me Mrs Claus!
However, this year I felt an immense sense of pressure, a pressure to have a perfect Christmas. Freddie was born on Halloween and when we came home on the 1st of November it just felt like BOOM, Christmas had arrived with Kevin the carrot on the TV every 5 minutes and shop window displays full of twinkly lights and tinsel, I started to panic.
Don't get me wrong, I had an absolutely AMAZING Christmas this year. But I really felt pressured. Pressured to please everybody. Be an amazing Mum, Girlfriend, Daughter, Friend, Present buyer/wrapper, human being. I felt if I wasn't seeing every single person possible over the Christmas period I was a bad person and I would be letting everybody and Freddie down. When in matter of fact, people do not mind if you can't spend a lot of time with them, the people that matter understand that you need to spend time as your own family unit as well as visiting.
I also felt pressure regarding presents this year. I'm usually done by mid November, everything wrapped and sorted, but after having Freddie I wasn't in the mood to go and shop, I wanted to spend every second wrapped in our perfect newborn bubble. To relieve the pressure this year, myself and my partner decided to give our nearest and dearest the best gift of all, being a godparent to our Freddie, now that is perfect.
In summary, we need to put less pressure on Christmas. We need to stop buying presents for the sake of buying, not feel bad for spending less and making a gift, not worry about how much we go out and do something festive and it really doesn't matter if we don't post a photo of our tree on Instagram.
Spend your Christmas how you like, with the people you want to be with, doing the traditions you love. Roll with it, it's not worth the stress.
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| On Christmas Eve we wore our matching Asda PJ's and had a couple of drinks and food with my parents, you don't need to go OTT to enjoy yourself |
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| One of our Godparent proposals |
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| These jigsaws were a hit with couples we asked to be Godparents, simple yet effective |
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| We asked my friend Saffron to be Godmother with this gorgeous personalised candle I purchased from Etsy |
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| Our family, three peas in a pod. Beth, Steven & Freddie x |
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