To those who celebrate, Merry Christmas!
The presents have been opened in our house at least and now it’s off to the grandparents’ house for lunch and the exchanging of presents.
Last night, I found the phone number for NORAD so the Lil Dude could ask when Santa was going to deliver his present in Southern California, and the helper elf who answered said that Santa has no set time but it’ll be between 9pm to midnight. BUT she said, if he’s not asleep, Santa will move on to the next house and boy, did he go to bed quickly!
Who knew that would work? Why’d I only think of doing that now that he’s eight?
But better late than never, right?
Now I have to figure out what will work for the rest of the year…
Liz Durano 
Merry What-ever-you-chose-to-celebrate!!!!!
Lovely way to get the kids settled, I always ended up with the usual mix of threats/bribery/intimdation/blackmail whatever worked, bad mum here š
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I guess I was lucky. They always went to bed relatively early and usually fell asleep quickly. Now the mornings came pretty early though… lol
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He slept in this year, thank goodness. He even told me to wake him up at 9 AM.
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