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The funny viral thread of a mother about how the Christmas holidays are lived when you have children

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In Babies and More we have repeatedly echoed hilarious viral threads published on social networks about situations that only occur when you have children. From surreal conversations in the parents’ chat at school, to adventures with the class pet, vacations with children at a campsite or the hard work that parents have on Twelfth Night.

Recently, Twitter user Manticora posted a thread about how Christmas is lived when there are children at home . The story, told humorously, is at times a bit exaggerated, but most of the situations that are described have been experienced by all parents to a greater or lesser extent.

You feel identified?

Christmas with children: a “blessed madness”

The thread has caused a huge cheer on Twitter and has quickly gone viral. Hundreds of users have identified with Manticora’s messages, and there are even those who in a humorous tone have accused this mother of “making spoilers” regarding how Christmas is lived with children at home.

As a mother of three children, I have also felt very identified with the writing , especially the part in which it mentions the Christmas decorations. And it is that I still remember my two young children, who have barely been 17 months, dismantling the Christmas tree as soon as I turned around.

For two years I had to replace the ornaments with stuffed animals and felt accessories that my little ones took off and put back on dozens of times a day. It might not be the most beautiful Christmas tree in the world, but it was definitely the most special for me.

I have also identified with the carols in a loop (in my house they begin to sound just as the Halloween festivity ends!) And with the expectations that parents set for ourselves to achieve that ideal photo of our children with which to congratulate the holidays to our beloved ones; photo that, incidentally, we rarely get.

Needless to say, the Reyes Magos moment has also made me smile . And it is that, what father or mother has not sweated the unspeakable placing the gifts without making the slightest noise so as not to wake the children? Who has not ever seen himself in the position of having bought a gift much desired by his children, which suddenly stopped being so two days before the night of the Twelfths?

I have always believed that motherhood / fatherhood is a “blessed madness”, especially when children are young, because on more than one occasion they make us live really funny, anecdotal and surreal situations. And although I do not deny that sometimes there are moments of absolute madness , I am sure that in time we will miss the magical and special stage of early childhood.

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