Christmas
I’m feeling a bit guilty about Christmas and want to know if I’m being a bit unfair.
I’ve a step daughter aged 6 and a baby girl aged 6 months. They share a room and baby girl will be moving into the room in the new year when she’s about 8 months. The room is a good size and we’ve just redecorated it with input from my step daughter and she loves it. However, even with lots of storage there’s not really room for big toys without it getting cramped and quite messy. She’s asked for a dolls pram and dolls house for Christmas. She already has a dolls pram and has a huge barbie dream house which takes up most of the play surface she has. Would it be really awful of us not to buy the dolls house, we just don’t have room for it?! I’ll buy the pram and probably give the old one to charity so she will get something off her list but I just feel so guilty she won’t be getting both things. I’m worried she’ll feel she’s being pushed to the side with her sisters arrival and not getting the Christmas gifts she asked for.
Once I’m back off of mat leave we will move to a bigger house ideally with enough room for them both to have their own bedrooms so it won’t be an issue next Christmas fingers crossed but I’m just so worried, I have a lovely close relationship with my step daughter and really worry about these types of things as she’s very intelligent and quite a sensitive soul…
A Christmas list is just that.. a list of wants and ideas It isn’t guaranteed they’re going to get them I wouldn’t feel guilty if she already has a dolls house all be it a Barbie one then another is pointless x