"I truly love decorating my Christmas tree with my daughters. I love their help, the way they stretch to hang ornaments on branches, the questions they ask me about ornaments they've recognized every year - but when it comes time to do my mantle or hang the garland or put up the lights outside, I want to do it alone."
"There are Christmas crafts you do with your kids, and then there are Christmas crafts you are allowed to do all on your own. It doesn't matter how difficult the craft is - if you enjoy it and want to do it without your toddler reaching for the scissors, you are allowed to do so. My own personal favorite is sitting down after my girls go to bed and cutting out tissue paper snowflakes while I watch a Christmas movie."
"The night before Thanksgiving, we open a bottle of wine, order some dinner, and watch all of our favorite sitcom Thanksgiving episodes while we put up the tree and put all the lights on it. Then, in the morning, our girls come downstairs to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and decorate a tree that's already up and ready to go."
A parent enjoys decorating the Christmas tree with daughters but prefers to handle the mantle, garland, and outdoor lights alone to focus on design, safety, and the process. A couple created a tradition of putting up the lit tree with wine and sitcoms the night before Thanksgiving so the children can decorate a ready tree after watching the parade. Some crafts are reserved for solo time, like cutting tissue-paper snowflakes after the children go to bed. The parent sometimes takes a day off to do favorite holiday baking while children are at school. Some projects are still saved for doing with the kids later.
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