Has anyone else's 5 year old just completely lost the plot?

[TotesABoats]

Just that really. She's SO excited for
Christmas. Manic hyper nightmare. The 9 year old has just told her she's the most annoying person in his life, and while I have obviously mediated and resolved I am kind of with him...

Would it be so terrible to pop to Gatwick and get the next plane to anywhere? Would it really? I'd come back: just, like, on Boxing Day when she's calmed down...

The picture 😂😂😂😂

Yeah I am kind of hoping she doesn't spot that as there's also a bunch of glitter glue on it.

Well done on avoiding AnE! I have 1 asleep, 1 in bed, 1 getting in...
EVERYTHING CROSSED

I think we create this though, don't we? We wind kids up with talk of father Christmas and presents, and it's all go at school as well. Tv, radio going on about it. We want them to be excited and are then surprised (not really) when they behave badly. My son now lives in another European city says it's all a lot calmer there. Just thinking out loud really. Anyway I'm thankfully past all that, so happy Christmas to you all and I hope everyone gets some sleep tonight!

We did dinner, bath, put stocking up, and stories, and I packed them off to bed at about 7.30, hoping to get started on the shenanigans so they might actually be asleep by 9.30 ish. The little sods actually listened to me for the first time in history, and got into bed, closed their eyes and went to sleep. I'm still in shock. But santa has been, I have wine, and I'm off to bed shortly. Let the magic commence....

I'm now realising why my non church attending parents suddenly at Xmas decided we had to go to midnight mass.

They didn't suddenly get religion it was to calm us down.

I bet they prayed we would fall asleep in the car on the way home.