Poor Maud. You are not old nor are you broken, you are well loved!
SB is so excited he could just burst. He's a funny one. He mentions Santa/Father Christmas but he doesn't seem to be the focus of his energy/excitement. He's very into his Advent Calendars (he has a refillable wooden train that he filled with chocolate mice, his favorite from the candy store, and a Lego one from my MiL). He doesn't harass to open my (chocolate) calendar or MrScout's (chocolate and Lego, he also has two) calendars but he will check with me to see if I've opened mine and he'll look at MrScout's and comment "Daddy didn't open his yet."
Over the weekend we went to Ye Ol' Market Town in Scoutshire (the one used in one of the last Harry Potter films) for a cream tea at the National Trust property. We came out of the Tea Shop after the sun had gone down and all of the lights were up and SB just gasped "It's so pretty! Look, the lights on that (Christmas) tree are dancing, Mommy! It's celebrating Christmas, too!" Any place with trees, lights, decorations and/or music is "Celebrating Christmas too, like us!"
And if you ask him "What did you ask Santa for?" (we went to visit in the States) his response is "A present." Right, that's helpful. The response does make little old ladies laugh, though. I have managed to get out of him he would like a train (surprise, surprise). He told a lady on the bus in YOUT that the other day and I mentioned he's asked for a train every year for the last three years/since he could say the word train and the woman looked horrified at the thought that he never got one. I had to assure her that Father Christmas had, indeed, brought him trains or tracks every year as asked and that it was just SB's passion. SB does have a new Brio engine in his stocking, as well as Lego (his other love), some expansion packs for current toys/games, some new board games and puzzles (books and jigsaws) and story & facts books.
Which Tea Room children are on Christmas holidays/term break now? Schools in Scoutshire break up tomorrow but I think some of the private schools in YOUT are broken up already (I've been seeing more kids around in town than normal).
Hats off to all of you who are busy with concerts, pagents, plays, etc. I'm tired and miserable enough with cold days and dark afternoons, I'm not sure I could be jovial enough to do all the other extra bits, too!