Sarah Hinchcliffe confided in the columns of The Mirror on December 22. The young woman remembered the Christmas holidays of 2020, which marked her a lot.
The Christmas period is very popular with children, who look forward to being able to open the gifts placed under the tree by Santa Claus. This was the case of Sarah Hinchcliffe, a mother aged 28 today. In the columns of The Mirror on December 22, she remembered her Christmas 2020, which was a bit special for her. On December 25, 2020, the young woman woke up earlier and, as she descended into the living room, she found herself facing her children, Mitzie and Preston, aged three and four respectively. Both are already next to the fir tree and presents….open. Indeed, only Alfie, the youngest, was still sleeping. “It was a nightmare“, recalled Sarah Hinchcliffe before adding: “I didn’t go to bed until two o’clock in the morning. I was sleeping soundly and I heard nothing“. If the mother was amused to see that her children had already opened the presents, she was however very disappointed not to have been present at their side. “The gifts weren’t just from me“, she explained before specifying: “They were from all over the family and they were already open so the people involved couldn’t see my kids opening them.”
This Christmas 2020, Sarah Hinchcliffe has never forgotten it. She could never have imagined that two of her children were able to open presents without waiting for her. “Preston had asked for a year round car track and it was my dad who built him one“, she explained. “I was excited to see his face when he was going to find out but I didn’t get the chance to.“, regretted Sarah Hinchcliffe before adding: “I laugh about it today but, at the time, I was shocked and devastated“. While she was not expecting it at all, the young mother then had a discussion with her children, to remind them that they must come and wake her up before opening the presents. “Fortunately, it never happened again and now i sleep with one eye open“, she had fun. An incident that Sarah Hinchcliffe was able to immortalize since she had come down with her mobile phone. A video that she then shared on her social networks and which has been viewed over 6 million times. There is no doubt that parents felt concerned by the sadness of Sarah Hinchcliffe while others were very amused by these images.
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Sarah Hinchcliffe was sleeping soundly and she had no idea that two of her children had already opened all the presents. “I was comfortably settled in my bed and it was the light in the hall that woke me up.“, she recalled before adding: “I was a little scared, thinking someone was in the house.” Quickly, the young mother realized that one of her children had descended. “I could hear talking downstairs so I took my phone and went downstairs to see what they were doing. I just wish I knew how long my kids had been down there“, she acknowledged. However, she also remembers that her children did not just open the presents. “They had also opened the boxes so the toys were already outside“, she had concluded. A chaotic discovery that she will not fail to tell her children later.