Hey, friends! I need your help.
I’m trying to compile an “Are you a Christmas Control Girl?” Quiz, so women can rank themselves. (Here’s what I mean by “Control Girl“)
But here’s my dilemma. I know the ways that I tend to be controlling at Christmas. For instance…
- I am fussy about the Christmas tree: What kind we get, when it gets put up, and how it’s decorated. (I used to let the kids ‘help’, but the tree always looked bottom heavy, so I would sneak back in and balance everything out.)
- I am picky about our “Christmas picture”. I have been known to make children go back out in subzero temperatures because I didn’t get a “good shot”.
- I try to control the entire gift-giving process: What you put on your list. What you receive from whom. The order you open your gift, and your response when you open it.
I’m working on all of this, but these are the areas I particularly struggle to–as Elsa would say– “Let it Go”!
But I’m assuming there are other Control Girls who struggle in ways I don’t. So… can you help me? Fill in the blank: “You know you’re a Christmas Control Girl when you _______________.”
Thank you!!
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You know you’re a Christmas control girl when you round up your kids to have a great family fun time decorating Christmas cookies and end up micromanaging the whole process and yelling at them for not doing it pretty enough and then take it over completely. Then complain about how “nobody in this house ever helps me with anything! I do everything myself!” Ugh.
Oh… I’m laughing, but I can totally relate! That’s how I am about decorating the tree. Last year they started untangling the lights, and it totally started stressing me out… Yup. I decorated it myself. Sigh.
You know you’re a Christmas control girl when…you have to spend hours cooking or baking to keep traditions, when all your kids really want (and you really want) is for you to spend time having fun with them. You can have something simpler to eat, and concentrate on more important things – unless everyone is involved in cooking.
So true, Sonja! Thanks for that reminder, as we head into “food + tradition” seasons.