Christmas Mom guilt

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I told myself this year that we were only going to buy our kids a little bit of presents because if I’m being honest, they have way too much stuff. They get new toys pretty regularly and they get a lot from grandparents and aunts and uncles since they’re the only grandkids on both sides. They have about 5 each plus stockings. But now I feel bad because people posting all the stuff they got their kids and now I feel like I didn’t get enough but I know it’s fine at the same time. I swear my anxiety will give me mom guilt about any little thing 😭

Also, my husband works on Christmas Day so we’re letting them open most of their presents tomorrow night and Christmas morning it’ll just be me and the kids. They’ll get one present from Santa and stockings from Santa. But I feel like it’s not enough for Christmas morning. Ughhhh. Christmas is so stressful for overthinkers.

Also- I’m not trying to “compare my life to others”. I just want to give my kids the best that I can and sometimes I wonder if my choices are the best or not. I never hardly had anything on Christmas as a child and don’t have a lot of good Christmas memories. I’ve always tried as hard as I can for my kids to have the life I wanted as a kid. So yes, I’m going to have a hard to comparing myself to others because of the fear of letting my kids down on Christmas morning.