Four Christmas celebrations in four different houses and now our home is settling back in to a routine. We are so thankful for the gifts of love and the physical gifts we have received this Christmas season and feel so blessed to be in driving distance of our parents so that we could see all of them this year, even if travel was delayed a bit by weather. We know others don’t have this luxury and don’t want to take it for granted.
Now that we have unpacked, though, we are quickly realizing we have more toys than we thought which our kiddos have outgrown. That’s bad enough, but we also have kiddos who are not ready to depart with some of those toys! I mean, Sweet Pea is 4 and still wants to play with the walking toy he used when he learned to walk! (I’ve tried to put things in the basement to wait for a spring garage sale…he always manages to see the most annoying toy when he goes down to ‘help’ me get something from the freezer.) We have talked with the boys about donating to others less fortunate, but when it comes to actually doing it they have a difficult time. Are your kiddos the same?
I wish there were phases in a child’s life that were uncomplicated, rather simple and easy. Maybe that toys would just dissolve when a child got to a certain age or mastered a certain developmental milestone. Where is the toy genie and who else needs one?
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