Devastating realisation that it will be too dark for DD to see her first stocking!!!

[Thankyouandgoodnight]

We always had them on the end of our beds when we were kids and thought it was great. DD is going to be 2 just before Christmas and I am all -over- excited about FC coming for the first time. Then I realised that her room is so dark, she won't be able to see what's in it properly!!!!

Disaster

this is devastating the longterm effects will be incalculable.

unless you let her have low watt fairy lights strung on her bed or nearby just for xmas eve so santa can see?

You may need to go for family therapy

Is there such a thing as a glow in the dark stocking?

Night light perhaps?

Or just acceptance that when it's nighttime it's dark.

Can you not creep in before she wakes and put a lamp on or open the curtains slightly

You see, this is why I ask Father Christmas to attend to the stockings in the living room - I am a total sucker for seeing the little faces light up at the knobbly stockings and I couldn't bear to have them at the end of the bed so they got to them before I did. I am an unrepentant Christmas Control freak.

First proper stocking though, sooo sweet, she'll love it no matter where it is or what she can see.

I love the fairy light idea!
Family therapy would be just too expensive

But Wilbur - surely getting them to stay in bed after 4:30am on christmas morning is far better??

I would not use fairy lights as I know peoples houses have burned down due to fairy lights being left on unattended. A night light may be better.

How about putting in her room for one or two nights only one of those mini 'lights-embedded-in-the-branches-already' Christmas trees - naff, utterly girly, and will shed just enough light to see by, without providing a fire risk?

Thankyouandgoodnight - it's a well known fact that Balham is the last stop on Father Christmas' route, so if the children leave their rooms before 7am, they could disturb him working and then their presents will disappear. I think this will be the last year that will work on ds1, but it's kept Xmas morning civilised for the last 4 yrs.

the point is you fumble blindly in the dark, guessing what things might be, till it si official getting up time and you can go and boucn eon your parents' bed

I remmeber the year I thought I'd got a football and was disappoiunted
when the lights went on it was the bald plastic head of a baby doll...