Despite nudging into my 40s and having two children, I am finally hosting my first Christmas. Does this mean that I am finally an adult?
‘Until now, I have gladly remained a child’: this year the roles will change as each generation moves up a step .‘Until now, I have gladly remained a child’: this year the roles will change as each generation moves up a step .. I know – this is usually something a person does when they are half my age, when they have recently moved out of home and have a boxfresh roasting tin and are keen to impress their adulthood on a parent or aunt.
But this year Christmas will happen at my house, a place where my partner and I remain shocked to be woken every morning by the sound of hungry pets and inquisitive children and where we must once again remind each other of our age, our responsibilities and the life choices we appear to have made. It will never not be a shock to me that I am charged with the task of deciding, for example, if there’s pudding, or if my baby needs to go to hospital, or if the bins need taking out, or how much to tell a child about war, or any number of daily adult tasks and responsibilities. Which is one reason the idea of hosting Christmas feels particularly bananas.
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