Lexie H

Well Christmas and new year are done, I no longer have to fake all the happiness and cheer to appease people who don’t understand life on a broken shoe string. We certainly didn’t have the “Traditional Perfect” Christmas that is shoved down our throats via tv, social media etc, but we were together and made sure the kids had as much fun as possible. We played board games, I searched new games we could play without it costing us anything, we snuggled in blankets and watched movies and scraped together some semblance of a Christmas dinner. I went to bed and sobbed out desperation. Knowing my kids had the best day I could manage for them but knowing they were going to be asked by their friends what they got and did while being told what the friends all got. My kids no longer have the magic of Christmas, even worse when we’re having to ration heat as well as food, gifts really do become an unnecessary burden.