‘All you did was wrap presents’: Pregnant mom of 2 stays up until 3:30 AM creating ‘Christmas magic’ for her kids and calls out inactive husband when he depreciates her efforts on Christmas morning

Christmas mornings for moms are like the Winter Olympics. They're constantly running around cooking, wrapping last-minute gifts, thanking Santa with cookies and milk, all while filming the whole thing with a video camera in one of their free hands—they are the real "Christmas magic".

Time and time again, though, you'll notice that a lot of these stories have a running theme: emotionally (or physically) absent parents. Whether the super parent in question is a mother or father, in these stories, one is out of the picture. When all of the super parent's hard work goes unnoticed or unappreciated, the absent parent is in for a real awakening.

The original poster (OP) of this story stayed up all night, despite being pregnant, creating "Christmas magic" for her and her husband's children. The OP explains that her husband had woken up in the middle of the night but failed to help her make Christmas happen, then refused to wake up and watch their kids open their Christmas gifts. Instead of sitting back and taking his unwarranted criticism, she calls him out. Scroll to read.

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The first red flag here is that the original poster's (OP's) husband claimed he woke up in the middle of the night. He failed to help his partner, OP, out even though he was awake and couldn't get back to sleep. Likely, he saw that she was not in bed but decided to let her create all of the “Christmas magic” on her own.
The second red flag is that he refused to wake up to watch their children open their Christmas gifts. So, not only did he fail to show up for his wife, but he also failed to show up for his kids…
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Though a simple sentence, the notion that the OP did the bare minimum on Christmas (which her husband couldn't even do) holds a lot of weight. She did everything on her own to ensure that her kids had a Christmas filled with cookies, gifts, and everything in between, while her husband caught up on some sleep… I wonder if the OP could've used a few moments to herself in the thick of it all.
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