Today I am joining Sian over at From High in the Sky for a little Christmas story telling.
At Christmas we...look forward to putting up our tree.
Nothing unusual about that I hear you say & I agree it is a pleasurable task for lots of us at this time of year. For my family it has become a tradition for the tree to go up on the weekend around the 10th for the past 20 years. As this is the date our first Son arrived( a week early I might add !!) and caught us out a little with our Christmas plans.
Having been admitted in early labour on the evening of the 9th, Paul was dispatched home awaiting a phone call from labour ward when things had progressed. Being an organised & by now panicky first time Mum to be I wrote Paul a list of jobs/ tasks we still needed to get done at home.
Unbeknownst to me he thought he needed to complete this list of tasks before his Son was born rather than before Christmas as I had intended. So whilst I tried to rest & let nature do it's stuff he was like some crazed madman working well into the night ticking things off the list till dawn broke & he phoned the hospital asking if he had time to go out & purchase a real tree, the last item on the list,or come back to the hospital for the birth!! They advised him to leave the tree & when he joined me the hospital he looked more shattered than me:D
Here is the little fella on Christmas day 1994 beside our tree.
So every year when we put up our tree we remember that amazing weekend that we became parents for the first time & even though that baby boy is now taller than both of us we never tire of reliving those moments again xxx
Here is the little fella on Christmas day 1994 beside our tree.
Sheena x
Oh what a wonderful story but your poor husband. Well I guess he could relax after that. :)
ReplyDeleteLove this story Sheena and made me smile thinking of Paul as a crazed madman working well into the night ticking things off the list.
ReplyDeletewhat a special memory, your poor husband though!!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great story!!
ReplyDeleteSheena, this is just such a lovely story! I can just imagine that proud dad in waiting, checking things off his list...especially because that very Christmas I can remember standing (for hours, it felt like) in the queue in Laura Ashley to buy a Teddy for the little boy I knew we were expecting in the New Year. I'm pretty sure he was given a little blue outfit like the one in your picture too. Great times.
ReplyDeleteSuch a lovely story that made me laugh and go aww all at the same time :) x
ReplyDeleteLol what a lovely husband doing all that, I went in early for Cait and gave hubs a long list of things that needed doing (we were in the middle of moving house!!!) and he folded it up and ignored it!!!! Still I went home to a different house and most of our stuff in one piece so it all turned out OK in the end.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great story and a lovely tradition that came out of it.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful story and memory. I never tire of thinking about the day we became parents.
ReplyDeleteOh, I absolutely loved your story! An extra special reason for you to be extra happy when you're putting your tree up! [A fellow Christmas Club-er]
ReplyDeleteSnap! Our oldest daughter was born in Nov. 1994 only she was 10 weeks early! She came home 3 days before Christmas. My husband in his wisdom put up the tree and decorated with his very young nieces I was very perturbed that all my ornaments had been handled by such young hands! To be fair not a single one was broken!
ReplyDeleteWhat a fab story. My sons birthday is 7th dec, but he hates it being near xmas.
ReplyDeletegreat story x
ReplyDeleteWhat a sweet snapshot and story.
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