BPA is Nommy Mommy!
by shell
1. Eco-Friendly Play Kitchen Set, (recycled from old milk cartons) 2. fruit bowl, 3. pink kitchen, 4. “Who Will Lead Us Now?”
Somewhere along the lines I think my connections got crossed and now my childhood Christmas memories involve coming down to find the tree in the morning surrounded by mountains of presents. I know, logically, it’s not the case. I am switching some random marketing photo with my own tree and I can’t fogure out why. Regardless, I am having this terrible inner turmoil when it comes to planning for IsaLuna and Solaris’ Christmas presents.
The not-so-logical parent would like to spoil them, buy them the huge fake kitchen and eight sets of fake plastic foods so they can have a full fledged working kitchen. (yum, BPA tastes like chicken!) I think this is the same psycho that actually considers spending $500 on a nursery set. I try not to listen to her.
The logical parent side freaks at the idea of all that plastic crap and force feeding scenery to them when their imaginations need working. She also freaks out at the thought of Christmases past which shows they received way too many things and half of them they didn’t play with.
So maybe this year I don’t feel so bad about spending $40 on the Recycled Kitchen Play Set, $20 on felt for mom and I to set out creating some toy food while she is here and $20 each on an individual present. Not sure what to get Iz yet, but Solaris is getting a kids camera so she stays away from mine, which I just found in the bottom of a laundry basket. Then have mom make some of her awesome cupcakes and dad, his cookies for their stockings.
So $100 on two kids gifts. I can be ok with this, they don’t need a lot of presents and they more open to interpretation it allows them to be the better. Then why do I feel so guilty about not giving them a huge Christmas?
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They still have a few more years until they might remember what they got for X-mas. Don’t tear yourself apart, especially with our wonderful economy. We decided to only get Mya 1 present this year, which is also about the same price you are paying for 1 kid. We actually debated whether we should bother introducing Santa to her, since she will eventually realized we lied to her, and then decided that having (and following) traditions are really what the holiday is about. Just make sure they realize that having family at X-mas is more important than the toys they will outgrow by next year.
I couldn’t agree with you more. We’re flying my mom in this year for christmas! Yay! I think this is a really good blog to write about…introducing santa. :)
Of course, you could always do what Laur always suggests when I freak out over gifts and parties and what not…throw a few empty boxes around them, some crinkled wrapping paper and snap some photos. They will never remember or know the difference (unless they are reading back through the blog ages from now. LOL)