Sleepless

Do your children still wish or already order them?

Less than two weeks until Christmas Eve, and I still don’t have all the presents for my daughters (12 and 15 years old). In our basement there is a small box in which I collect the children’s letters, drawings, birthday and mother’s day cards. I just stumbled into the basement, rummaged through this box and looked for old children’s wish lists for this post. This text almost wouldn’t have come about because suddenly I was sitting on our cold basement floor with old wish lists all around me. I just had to read them all! The children’s first wish lists were painted, later the wishes were cut out of advertising brochures and stuck on until Maya and Lara were old enough to express their wishes more precisely. Typical children’s wishes: Frozen Palace, creepers, the mole game, a fabric ladybug and books. I sold the Christ Child to my children – as I knew it from my own childhood – as a messenger. Lara, my big one, found this somewhat contradictory at some point, because the Christ child was the Jesus child and she could not imagine a baby flying out of the crib and handing out presents. So she sympathized with Santa very early on. If only because she loved the KIKA series “Beutolomäus” so much at Christmas and she could imagine Santa Claus better.