It was the night before Christmas...

Well it is that time of the year again. The time where the magical Christmas Fairy comes and cooks a great meal for 6, decorates the house and the Christmas tree and wraps all the presents in beautiful paper and finishes each one off with a beautiful bow. Yes, that wonderful Christmas Fairy, how I cannot wait for her arrival at our house, for if she doesn't, I am afraid those presents are not going to wrap themselves, the lamb is going to stay in the fridge and the fairy lights are going to stay in their box. I've had all the best intentions to get things done sooner, but as my sanity is running out with a teething child on my hip, I know that if she is only "pretend", like her boss Santa, I am in big trouble.

See, there is another thing they forgot to inform (or warn) us about. When you become a mom, besides all the regular responsibilities, you also automatically inherit all the festive and celebratory responsibilities. These include all birthdays, religious celebrations like Christmas and Easter and also all Hallmark created frivolities. Yes, It is ALL your responsibility and when you do not deliver, you get pairs and pairs of tear stained eyes staring up at you, blaming you for ruining Christmas. I have no idea how my mother did it all. I just also accepted that these things happened all by themselves. I had no idea that it all depends on me! I think I am going to campaign for the day before Christmas to become a public holiday as well, as husbands have to be at work, and can thus be of very little help (or maybe that is why they do NOT have it as a Holiday yet!)

Anyway, let me get cracking, there is A LOT to do and only one of me. But one thing I do know, is that when Mia puts out the cookies and milk tonight for Santa, there will be a little apron and broom right next to it and some recipes a few ingredients. Maybe, just maybe, when we wake up tomorrow, Mia will find her wrapped presents under the tree and I will find a beautifully prepared meal and a clean house!