DS is 2.4, doesn't not understand Christmas at all. He knows what presents are, and who Father Christmas is (although he scares the very bejesus out of him) and he sings jingle bells beautifully, but if I asked him who brings the presents he would look at me completely blank.
Basically Christmas Eve is going to be exactly the same to him as every other Wednesday, he certainly wouldn't understand the 'leave a mince pie for FC', 'hang your stocking' type stuff and would in no way understand that Father Christmas is coming tomorrow.
So anyway, my friends and I always go for a Chinese on Christmas Eve, have done for many years. It's one of my favourite Christmas things. This year I booked a place for DS too as it just didn't occur to me to leave him for the evening on Christmas Eve.
I'm now doubting myself. He won't eat anything off the menu, I know that for a fact, so I'm basically going to have to entertain him with smuggled in bread sticks and I'll have to leave early as it's not fair to expect him to sit at a table for a long drawn out Chinese banquet when he's not even eating any of it!
AIB really U to be considering going without him?
It really isn't going to be any fun for him so I'd almost decided not to go but now XDH has offered to babysit so I'm torn. I haven't spent a second (other than at work) away from DS for 6 weeks and although I'm really looking forward to the next few years of properly magical children's Christmases, I'm kind of veering towards making the most of my last un-childlike one for a long while.
I'm a terrible mother aren't I.