DYING OF ANTICIPATION

We are celebrating our Swiss Christmas TONIGHT! And the girls are dying of anticipation. Why, as parents, do we slide into the roll of present controller – taunting our kids with the hour when they can finally open their presents. Maybe it’s because we recall that anticipation and the suffering and we want to inflict it upon our littles. To make it worse I’ve adopted my mom’s tradition of labeling the presents with a secret code. So there is a pile of presents under the tree but they don’t know which ones belong to which sister. Mom used to label with triangles and circles – I usually print out drawings of two animals.