You Know It's Christmas When...
By Gail Miller

• Your children miraculously start to be very well behaved.
• You start to hate the sound of Little Drummer Boy with a vengeance!
• The turkey has been in the oven 5 hours now and it's STILL not cooked.
• Summer holiday adverts start to appear in TV.
• You start taking bets obsessively with all and sundry as to whether it's going to snow on Christmas day. You even consider praying for it.
• You have just finished the 14 batch of mince pies
• You get your children's presents from behind the wardrobe to find the paper has been torn off the corner of every one of them.
• You couldn't eat another single mouthful of Christmas pudding if they paid you.
• Every meal between Christmas and New year contains turkey... turkey fritters, turkey curry, turkey stew, turkey sandwiches.
• You find although you have used 5 packs of Christmas cards..... you still need just one more card.
• You have been given 3 pairs of slippers which you know you will just never wear.
• At 11.59pm on Christmas day you sigh and sink exhausted into your favourite armchair and exclaim "Never again!"

Gail Miller, from the UK, is a freelance writer & author of Wild Child ~ A Mother, A Son & ADHD http://home.freeuk.net/theadhdgazette/wild She also writes and publishes The ADD / ADHD Gazette - ADDGazette-subscribe@onelist.com and Affiliates UK - affiliatesuk-subscribe@onelist.com