{"id":1889,"date":"2008-12-24T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-24T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1889"},"modified":"2008-12-24T09:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-24T13:05:00","slug":"i-heard-the-bells-on-christmas-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1889","title":{"rendered":"I heard the bells on Christmas Day."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nEm is chock full of Christmas spirit. She’s got her day planned out. A bath at 4 so that her hair will be dry by bedtime, then bedtime at 6. I’ve talked her back to 7 because I don’t want her to lie awake in her bed for hours on end. Tomorrow, she wants me to ring a special Christmas bell to wake her if I wake up before she does. I’d say the chances of me getting up before Christmas’s Biggest Fan are pretty slim, but I’ll see what I can do.<\/p>\n

We used to have a Christmas bell that belonged to my grandmother, who collected bells. Em knocked it off a table this year. She was heartbroken, crying quietly to herself. I myself was very sad because it was a bell that had belonged to my grandmother, but of course you can’t get mad at a child for something like that. It was clear that she genuinely felt awful. I still have a few other bells that my grandmother had, and they’re metal. Big brass bells, that’s what I got from my grandmother! Oh, come on, she had a good sense of humor.
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\nHowever, we still needed a replacement bell if we were going to ring something on Christmas morning. I had to visit five different places before I found a Christmas bell that wasn’t a jingle bell. Do NOT go out to a specialty Christmas store in December. Just don’t. It’s a madhouse.<\/p>\n

I finally got a bisque bell at Michael’s and picked up some paint in Christmas colors. I hoped that making it extra Christmasy ourselves would ease the pain a bit. And it did. Em did a wonderful job. When I think about all the occupational therapy she’s had, and how amazingly far she’s come, I’m filled with motherly pride.
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\nEm loves the new bell. Christmas is back on track. All is right with the world.<\/p>\n

Em:<\/b> “Do you know why Santa doesn’t come until Christmas Eve?”
\nMe:<\/b> “No, why?”<\/i>
\nEm: <\/b> “Because sometimes Santa doesn’t wrap presents, and if he came before Christmas Eve, everybody would know what they had before Christmas.”<\/p>\n

I have it on good authority that a certain little girl is going to get exactly what she asked for from Santa this year. She’s certainly been good.
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