Any of you that have read past posts will be aware that I love and hate Christmas, there is no inbetween for me, I love time off work, spending time with the Hobman clan, giving presents, having copious amounts of chocolate in the house and even my dad making the same jokes heās made for the last 10 years⦠(Kaylee and her heelies ā they lasted 5 whole minutes…. up and down the drive once, where all the rubbish will go and how we would each have to take some home and the fact my mom’s turkey is dry) Iām honestly surprised that my mom hasnāt chinned him.š¤£
I was genuinely looking forward to this Christmas, last Christmas our family was separated due to the government restrictions just like many others across the world, so it made this Christmas that bit more special. There are four generations of us: big nanna, my mom and dad, me and H and then William and Kaylee.

Williams letter from the fat man š
Everything was planned to the finest detail, William would spend Christmas eve with his dad, come home for bedtime, read his letter from Father Christmas and his usual Santa book āSanta comes to Hullā.

I always sneak in a cheeky reading of āthe night before Christmasā as its my guilty pleasure. Christmas day, we would try to take things at William pace, I would be dressed and ready before he woke up, breakfast and then gifts before letting him chill out and finally setting off to my parents for lunch and family time⦠but that didnāt happen.
What do you do when your sons dad messages you saying heās got covid and its Christmas eve and heās got your son? Again, I shouldnāt have to say it, but this isnāt a post in which I slate Williamās dad. Although when I read that message, there were a few expletives running round my head purely because of the ramifications of his message but I wish him no harm and hope that he and his girlfriend recover quickly, mainly because I need childcare for when I go back to work in January (Jokes š¤£)
After having a cry and getting angry, I made the decision to stay home with William in order to protect my loved ones. My family are all vaccinated and boosted but I just couldnāt take the risk, especially with big nanna. I would never have forgiven myself if she caught it from us.
William and I have been doing lateral flows each morning and so far, both have come back negative and hopefully they stay that way but I will keep you posted. š¤ Iām not going to lie, it was a really difficult decision to make, not only did it mean I couldnāt be with my family on Christmas, but it also meant I couldnāt spend Christmas eve with L. Our first Christmas together and we couldnāt see each other until late Christmas night so that he could reduce the risk for family too.
I think Mud had it right when they said āIt’ll be lonely this Christmasā because it really was⦠William seemed to have a great day though. We opened presents, ate chocolates, and generally made a mess of my very clean house (only because I was manic cleaning Christmas eve as if Santa was a house inspectorš§¼)
William was a little overwhelmed as there were new things in the living room but because there was no panic or rush to be out the door, he could just take things at his own pace and seemed to enjoy exploring his new things. We even had all the presents open before lunch, except for the ones L brought on the evening.




I’m sure I said this last year but next Christmas is going to be the best one yet… At least I hope so x
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