If You Are Me, Here’s How Your Christmas Goes Down
Your husband, a driver for UPS, will get home from work at 10:30 p.m. on Christmas Eve.
Your children, one who is eight and likes to get the party started and the other who is two and wasn’t feeling well because he had a bacterial infection (but you won’t find that out until Tuesday after Christmas because you will have to take him to Urgent Care), will not go to bed until midnight on Christmas Eve.
You and your aforementioned husband will begin assembly on the magical wooden kitchen and the coveted wooden dollhouse at 12:30 a.m Christmas morning.
The instructions for the kitchen contain 28 steps that are translated loosely from Dutch to English.
The instructions for the dollhouse contain 17 steps detailed for us in English.
You will not understand either.
You will finish wrapping presents at three a.m.
You will finish the assembly of the presents at 5:30 in the a.m. on Christmas morning. You will go to bed just in time for your oldest daughter to get up and inspect our Santa’s work.
She will wake her brother up.
And they will run to the wrong toys.
Just so you know.
Gin
Dude, I'd run to that kitchen set, too – Martha Stewart's got *nothin'* on that sweet setup.
Jen
That. Is. AWESOME. Best Christmas story ever.
Krista
I had to do a double take after looking at this shot, seeing the bucket-o-army guys and the stuffed Woody (which I assume had its arms wrapped around a blanket?) I could have mistaken it for my house. Except that my 9 year old is a boy and my little guy is 4, but practically the same.
Midwest Mommy
Oh my gosh I love this and can't stop laughing!
Something Happened Somewhere Turning
We did the exact same thing two years ago. One gift was a doll house and the other was pool table/air hockey table. We got to bed roughly around the same time. I mean, Lois got to bed roughly around the same time. I never did get to go to bed because I was still gluing shingles on the roof of the doll house (I never did complete the roof).
staring
Man I suck. The shingles are still sitting in the living room this very moment not more than 3 feet away from the doll house.
Clemson Girl
Bwahahaha! Reminds me of when I was 8 and got a tea set for Christmas…the little brother wouldn't let me near it lol!
Monique-aka-Surferwife23
Yeah. You're a good mom. I don't assemble shit until they are opened Christmas morning. So pat yourself on the back for that…
3StinkyBoysAndMe
So funny when reading it on a blog, probably not so funny when it's happening to you. But to me, so funny. I hope you and your family had a great Christmas!
Rebekah Borucki
adorable.
Martinis or Diaper Genies?
I love it. I love your family and you make me want babies. but i know my babies won't be half as cool as yours.
Allie
Ha ha ha, well, at least they can share.
Gini
HAA!! BEST Christmas story I've heard this year!
sherri
that is hilarious. we have the same kitchen and my little dudes love it. happy new year!
Chocolate Girl
But everyone wound up happy in the end, right? There's nothing like sleep-deprived Christmas fun!
Lisa Page Rosenberg
Brilliant.
And that exact kitchen almost killed my husband the night before our kid's birthday. I helped by repeatedly reminding him that, "all the reviews on the website said that people put it together in about an hour and a half, on average." He was really into that bit of encouragement around hour 3.
Happy Everything to you!
Elaine A.
At least they were both happy, right? Love it. I mean REALLY love it.
Adventures In Babywearing
OF COURSE!
Steph
Chris at yardsalequeen.com
I am impressed the way that the pj's tops and bottoms actually match on not one but both kids. Getting one kid's pj's to match is hard enough for me.
jules
Exhausting. But on the bright side, those are really cute jammies!
sarah
Damn. You should get mother of the year for that shit.
meredith
oh my gahh, this is hysterical. i particularly love that you captured this moment.
The Lil Bee
OMG no! Did you sleep at all last week? You are such a good mom. And Zoe is a little woman all of a sudden.