This Ain't A Fairytale- Lando Norris

44. Merry Christmas

Historically, Christmas had not been Hannah's favourite time of year. It had often been spent alone in a hotel room halfway across the world, or if she was home then usually it was spent with her parents making sarcastic comments and wondering where exactly Joe had got to.

It had changed when they had Isla though, the combination of the excitement on her daughter's face and Lando's infectious enthusiasm about the festivities was hard to resist.

This year though, it seemed to be extra special. The second Lando had arrived home from Abu Dhabi at the end of the season he'd gone out and bought the biggest Christmas tree he could find. With hindsight, she had realised that perhaps she should have gone with him and Isla to offer some kind of supervision as she watched him wrestle the huge tree in through the back door. He was quickly forgiven for going quite so over the top when Isla had excitedly told her that she'd picked the tree.

By the time that she'd gone upstairs to put a load of laundry away and come back down, even the dog was wearing a Christmas jumper and Lando was sat on the floor sorting out lights for the tree with Isla.

"What's going on in here?" Hannah laughed. "I'm feeling a bit left out." She joked gesturing to the fact they all seemed to have matching Christmas jumpers on.

"Oh I got you one too, obviously." Lando laughed. "Here." He picked it up out of the bag behind him and tossed it across the room to Hannah.

She laughed, pulling the jumper on over her head as Isla squealed in approvals. "Mummy! We match!"

"We do." Hannah agreed. "Are we going to put the decorations on the gigantic tree you two bought?"

"I'm not sure I've got enough lights to go round it." Lando confessed. "I swear it didn't look this big when she picked it. I might have to go back out and get some more."

"You're going to have to find a way to make it work or she's going to be so disappointed." Hannah laughed, gesturing to Isla who was already hanging a random assortment of decorations off the branches that she could reach.

"Hang on a minute... I need to do the lights first!" Lando protested, scrambling to his feet with his half untangled string of lights in his hand. "No, wait.... Bolt! Stop it." He cried as the dog went rummaging through the box of decorations and then ran off with one.

Hannah couldn't do anything but laugh as she watched Lando drop the lights and take off in pursuit of the dog, Isla chasing after the pair of them giggling.

"I think this might be my cue to go and see if Levi is awake." Hannah laughed, turning and heading up the stairs to check on their youngest child.

"That's not very nice!" Lando yelped at he tripped over the coffee table still trying to catch the dog. "You could help me."

"I could." Hannah laughed. "But it's a lot more fun for me to watch... think of it as my Christmas entertainment."

By the time she came back down the stairs carrying a now now so little baby Levi, the chaos had mostly calmed down. The sound of Lando crashing around chasing the dog had been replaced with Christmas music and the sound of Lando and Isla's off key singing.

"Ah, he's awake!" Lando grinned, turning away from the tree for a minute. "Time for your Christmas jumper too buddy!" He reached back into the bag and pulled a tiny matching jumper out.

"You're really going all out on getting us in the festive spirit this year, huh?" Hannah laughed, allowing him to lift their son out of her arms.

"Of course." Lando grinned, holding Levi up triumphantly in his little Christmas jumper. "Every year Isla is more excited and it's so much fun! Don't be a Scrooge, join in!"