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?
THREAD NECESSARY if you are considering having children.
Christmas is a very beautiful time to rehearse.
I leave you a series of practices that you can do these days:– Manticora (@MadreManticora) December 4, 2021
1. Go to a mall on kings week.
Enter the Lefties and drop a rabbit. Try to buy clothes in your size and for 4 more gifts without losing sight of the rabbit.– Manticora (@MadreManticora) December 4, 2021
2. Assemble the Christmas tree and decorate it. When you finish, tear all the balls from the tree and spread them around the room. Grab a bag of glitter and spread it all over the sofa. Replace a wizard king in the nativity scene with a dinosaur and throw the baby Jesus in the trash.
– Manticora (@MadreManticora) December 4, 2021
3. Search YouTube for the burrito sabanero. Listen to it on a loop for 3 hours. Then an hour of the fish in the river, but only the chorus. Put the burrito sabanero again for 5 more hours.
– Manticora (@MadreManticora) December 4, 2021
4. Do a marathon in the morning. Without taking a nap, go see the parade of kings with your puppy without a leash and a well-loaded shopping cart.
Follow the ride for at least 3 parts of the route and grab 2 balls and 3 kilos of candy.
Do not die. The night remains– Manticora (@MadreManticora) December 4, 2021
5. The night of kings. Dinner, collect, read 3 stories. Throw the balls from the tree again and collect them. Get up to the bathroom and to a bedroom 3 times. Then wait at 2 in the morning. Tie 2 tambourines to your wrists and take out the presents and prepare them without the tambourines sounding.
– Manticora (@MadreManticora) December 4, 2021
6. If you telecommute and don’t have a Christmas vacation, find a pony, a Vietnamese pig, a parrot, a dog and a cat and leave them alone in the living room while you work in a room behind closed doors. Don’t get up no matter what you hear. In meetings: naturalness.
– Manticora (@MadreManticora) December 4, 2021
7. On the 20th I left home at 8 in the afternoon and desperately searched for red tights and a red LISA sweatshirt, size 3 years old. And a Hebrew costume size 6 years.
It is not worth shepherd, Hebrew.
It is not worth peasant, Hebrew.
Not worth Roman, HEBREW.– Manticora (@MadreManticora) December 4, 2021
9. Buy a random Christmas present. For example a blue and black gamer chair, with lights. And then spend the month convincing your mother that’s exactly what she wants for kings.
You will know what it feels like when they change their mind with the purchased toy.– Manticora (@MadreManticora) December 4, 2021
10. Find 2 stray cats and bring them home. Dress one of Santa Claus and another of elf, with suspenders. Hats and booties included.
Get a picture of them without taking anything off and looking at the camera. One with the Christmas tree in the background and the other with the fireplace. Also, smiling.– Manticora (@MadreManticora) December 4, 2021
11. Put the same cats in the bathtub. Wash them without getting scratched and leaking, and dry them with a towel and then a blow dryer. Put them in one-piece baby pajamas, with buttons. Bonus track: Brush their teeth.
– Manticora (@MadreManticora) December 4, 2021
12. All I Want for Christmas is You by Mariah Carey. Create an alarm on your mobile with this melody. Volume 99. Set to sound at
11:50 PM, 2:01 AM, 2:15 AM, 4:00 PM and 6:00 AM.
Stroll a sack of potatoes 30 minutes at a time. At 7:30 on foot, the “rest” is over.– Manticora (@MadreManticora) December 4, 2021
13. Dress up for New Year’s Eve.
Go to the kitchen and grab a stand mixer or food processor and add:
An egg, milk, flour and 3 pieces of banana.
Give it to shred WITHOUT LID.
(That’s having dinner with children)– Manticora (@MadreManticora) December 4, 2021
14. Finally, infiltrate a WhatsApp group as a child. Pretend to be a parent and the week of the Christmas show write one of these:
– My son has lice.
– Well, I have spoken with the lady, I am not satisfied and the theme of the Christmas function will be changed …– Manticora (@MadreManticora) December 4, 2021
Boommm!
And it would be.
If, despite everything, you want to repeat this adventure, you know …Make the wish for 2022.
– Manticora (@MadreManticora) December 4, 2021
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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