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"When I look back on my childhood the one thing I remember most is Christmas. We would put one of dads big fishing socks at the end of our beds and wait for Father Christmas to visit! We would wake up ridiculously early (even though on school days we never wanted to get up.) Me and my two younger brothers would look in our stockings and we would have some nuts in the bottom, a tangerine, some crisps and a small selection box and a little gift (as we got older we had a scratch card too.) We would show mum and dad what we got and sit on their bed and dad would get up and go into the front room and “check if Santa had been.“

In reality he was turning the Christmas lights on and putting the tv on. We would patiently wait on the stairs and every time he would come out, quickly closing the door behind him saying “he hasn’t been“ and then he would open the door and we would see our gifts all on the sofas in beautiful wrapping paper! We would find which sofa was ours and start to unwrap them.

For me Christmas has always been about family, spending time with them, seeing relatives whom we haven’t seen in a long time, just all coming together for Christmas. Now I have a family of my own and I do the same with my children, except we do it in our way. Christmas is about family, about coming together and making memories. It’s about seeing my children’s faces lighting up and having an amazing Christmas. It’s not about the presents because the toys will be passed on and they will outgrow them as they grow , but the memories will stay with them forever."

Melissa King

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