You only really get a sense of how stressful the Christmas holidays are when you become a parent. You understand what pressure there is on the parents to provide their children with what they are asking for. I finally found out how stressful it was this year. I have a 6 year old daughter who has watched me mess around with the nintendo ds and the dalmatians and friends nintendogs game.

Constantly she would comment on how when she was older she was going to havea pink ds and the nintendogs game to play. So this year in September I decided to place an order with a mail catalogue thing for a nintendo ds with a couple of games for it for nearly £170 for christmas for her.

Needless to say the nintendo ds and games did not arrive in september and when i called them back I was advised that it would be delivered to me by October, I waited until October and still no show of what I had ordered, I was then advised that it would be with me by the 2nd of November. Again I waited for it and still no show, called them again and was told to wait until the 16 or 17th of November, still didnt arrive so called them back and they told me that Nintendo have made so many promises to people this year that they simply can not supply every order and they are working like mad to complete backdated orders and get them sent out i was to wait until the first week of december for my order. I told them to stuff it and went out and bought one just the system no extra games for it for a little under £100.

I didnt think with so little time left to xmas that I would finally get my hands on one for my 6 year old daughter who was and still is desperate for one, so its a good job that i didnt tell her that she was going to get one.