On December 25, 2012 it was Christmas day... and Cooper's half birthday! So in month 6 I learned how to handle Christmas with a baby. While I had already tackled the first major holiday, Thanksgiving, I am usually just a visitor enjoying the food on that day. During Christmas I am much more involved.
I usually cook a big lunch for about 5 people. While I do cook during the week, this is no ordinary meal. Plus, and most importantly, I now had another person to care for and feed. And to feed this new person I had to sit in one place and that was all I could do. So this Christmas dinner took much more planning and a lot more time. Here's my blog about my Christmas meals.
Other than cooking on Christmas day, there were presents to buy and Christmas Eve to survive. I planned ahead for exactly what gift I wanted to buy the many people on the family Christmas list. If you count mine and my husbands family there were 20 people we planned to give gifts to, which doesn't include my husband, Cooper, or me. When I knew what I wanted to get each person I planned where to go and what time... trying to work around Cooper's nap schedule.
Christmas Eve went pretty smoothly. At the time, I was worried again about his naps. He got a little nap and still went right to bed as soon as we got home. Which aloud me to prep for the next day's meals.
Little babies, or maybe just Cooper, can be a lot more flexible with their sleep schedules than I thought. I was slowly learning this and taking more chances when heading out with him.
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