Dear Santa, can you hear me?

I hope it’s not too late to be writing to you.

I know that you have a pretty tough gig.  I mean OK you have a whole year to get ready to do your thing but sometimes, if you’re at all like me that is, it doesn’t matter how much planning time you have there is always that last minute dash to the finish line.  OK I know you have elves to help but managing a work team, even if they are elves, can’t be easy.

I thought I would give you a break this year.  It’s been a tough year for all of us and I guess it probably isn’t any different for you.  So, I’ve decided not to ask you for world peace again this year.  I’ve just checked out the BBC News website and, well quite frankly, it’s not looking likely is it.

Instead this year I thought I would make my list a bit more achievable.  If you could see your way clear to getting to some of this I will of course be very grateful. However I should add that I’m a pretty amenable gal, so if it doesn’t work out I won’t hold it against you much.

Oh I should also add I’ve been pretty good this year and, well those times when I haven’t well I really can explain.  So here’s my list….

Health – I’m in pretty good shape all considered, but if you could keep me just ticking along that would be fab.

Study – OK this has been up and down, granted more ups than downs, but if you could help me kick my tendency to procrastinate into touch this area of my life would be a hellava lot more manageable.

Love – I’m pretty loved up so again if you could just add a sprinkle of magic to keep things topped up that would be grand.  Oh I should say that my man and I have moved bedrooms – we’re now next door to my son’s bedroom so please don’t sprinkle the magic outside his door by mistake.  I don’t think I’m ready to cope with a loved up 16 year old just yet.

Joy – I think it would be true to say that we all need joy in our life.  If you could see your way clear to reminding me that it’s my job to continue to cherish life in your funky Santa like way I promise to try to keep it going all year.  Hell I’ll even make it my job to pass it on whenever I can – deal?

Blogging – Now I know that you actually read my blog, and I’m very grateful for that.  Like most new bloggers my stats could do with a boost.  Maybe you could tell your elves to subscribe and read when they’re not doing the toy making thing.

Christmas – Now you know how much I love Christmas and how excited I get.  My husband, I know, loves it too he just kind of doesn’t enthuse about it in quite the way I do.  You know what I mean – on Christmas morning he takes a while to get into it instead of ripping open his presents in the wild frenzy I usually adopt.  This year can you make him really, really excited.  I know that he would love it and it would tickle the hell out of the rest of us.

Peace – as I said I’m not going to ask for world peace but maybe you could manage peace in our house.  You know the kind of thing.  Christmas day with a happy family, sharing chocolates and smiling at each other.  We’re a pretty happy bunch really but with a teenager and a 94 year old in the house we’ve got a pretty wide spectrum to manage. Even if you could work your magic and co-ordinate our Christmas viewing so that we all get to watch what we want to watch, no temper tantrums etc that would be great.  Oh and if you could see to it that I’m in the winning team for the Christmas quiz then that would be just fabulous, as I’m sure you know this would be a first for me.

Glad Tidings – Now you know you’ve let me down a couple of times in the past but I’m willing to forgive and forget if you can deliver some glad tidings.  There’s a group of gals, The Military Wives Choir, who have a wonderful song in the charts.  I sing it most mornings as I’m walking to work, hell I’m even getting quite good at the solo bit! Can you please help it along to No. 1 – it’s for a really good cause.

So Santa I hope you can see your way clear to some of this.  I promise I will leave you something nice under the Christmas tree and I’ll put the heating on boost for you because it’s bloody freezing here.  Oh and  you know that we don’t have a chimney so you’ll have to use the front door, well please be careful because the outside light is playing up and the builders have had a few glitches so there is still some scaffolding up, so be careful now.

Oh and Merry Christmas 👍

Love Jacqueline x

So what’s on your Christmas list folks?