Do they know its Christmas?

For any new parent, you find yourself making certain compromises to get everything done. To make sure you have clean clothes, the bathroom doesn't get clean. To make sure you have food in the house, you don't wash your car. Every day is negotiation or outright robbery - robbing Peter to pay Paul (sorry Jesus).

With the holiday season coming, responsibilities multiply and so do the justifications. When the baby is just starting to smile and stare at the mobile, any new parent likely has to ask themselves "do they know its Christmas?"

More to the point, will he really know if the Christmas tree isn't up? Does he even know what Christmas lights are anyway? Can't we just set up a small set for photos, so that he doesn't think in the future that his parents were a bunch of scrooges.