That this made my heart melt….

[Sandychick31]

I hate mawkish sentimentality - of which - let's face it, there's much on Facebook.

However, about 2 years ago, a friend had posted a picture of his 6 month old baby in bright red jim jams clutching a parcel at Christmas time, staring at the camera with the caption underneath:

"My First Christmas Present From Santa".

I must admit, even my heart melted at that. I'm even starting to well up thinking about it now.

YABU. Have a yorkie and man up!

Fair enough!!!

Two years ago?

Don't forget the baby didn't write the caption!

Or well, a year last Xmas - so practically 2 years ago...

For me YABU; it would have made me mouth vom/cross for these reasons:

1. I call him Father Christmas
2. The commercialism behind getting a 6mo a present when they don't have a clue and would have got as excited about unwrapping some random household object.

It sounds sweet but I think you may be more sentimental than you thought!

And why are you posting about it now you nutter?

Put that bottle down OP!

You're just luring the Christmas haters in by stealth aren't you?

What's made you think about/post it now?

What's with starting all these odd threads op?

EugenesAxe - lol! - you make a very good/valid point in point 2.

What made me post it now is that I'm very new to MN - so couldn't have posted it before and whenever I think of that photo I think it was beyond cute!!

And AgentZigzag - the bottle is already down! - but unfortunately it's only diet coke! :(

Booo to the diet coke.

Can't even blame the thread on being a bit squiffy

Thisvehicleisreversing - didn't think particularly 'odd' as such - just a lighthearted thing for a Saturday night….

Nowt wrong with an odd thread, they're what makes MN go round.

True dat

You're welling up over some random baby from two years ago in a red babygro? That's it? The baby wasn't even desperately ill? Living in a warzone? Orphaned on Christmas Eve?

YABVU.

Blimey, you take some egging squoosh

You need to get in touch with your feminine side emotions.

My tear ducts are grumpy, reluctant things!

Fair enough squoosh - on another day if I was in a different frame of mind, or it was different circumstances I might well have thought… "spew!"!!!!!

I am mostly incredulous that you remember the picture! I don't remember pictures I saw yesterday.

Tee2072 If I'm being honest the father of this baby was my ex's nephew and at that time I still had a bit of a 'thing' for my ex - so would look at all his family members' Facebook pics etc - and being, as he was , from a large Irish Catholic family - this, as you can imagine, took up a huge chunk of my time - so many people to look up!!! However, I have since realised that I was starting to use Facebook to avoid facing the more difficult issues in my life - so I have since more or less given the damn thing up - I was realising I was spending an unhealthy amount of time on there.

But his nephew and his wife seem excellent parents to their 3 girls, they are certainly examples of people who've got the required patience with children and therefore all 3 of their girls are very happy and secure.This contrasts with my own childhood where my parents were self absorbed and not child orientated at all! - Sorry - was just going off topic there - but I did find this pic particularly adorable - and that's why I remember it!