How will you accommodate your Christmas around the children?
C: The Christmas tree will definitely look different; we are going to decorate from the middle and up. Everything will be a bit higher, and I am not sure that we will have presents under the tree as they will probably get destroyed. And I also think that we as parents will have to divide us. So, we will have to make arrangements with our boyfriends about who has the 'lead' before the Christmas dinner and after. It may sound a bit charmless, but it will make the evening flow better. We will make a plan, but we will probably also just see how the day goes. Anything can happen.
ML: Before we had children, we have thought a lot about how Christmas should not be about pleasing the children too much, for example that they will need to wait for their turn to open presents, but we will probably have to re-evaluate those principles. And I think our entire timeframe will be different. Usually, we won't have Christmas dinner before 8 PM, and we are not done opening presents until past midnight. I don't think we can do that with children.