Every year I knew Christmas was over on the 5th January. I know 12th night is the 6th – a big thing in France I think – but you see, we would almost always be back at school by now (as the kids are this year, snow aside) but also the 5th is my mum’s [...]
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“Toby, what was your favourite bit of Christmas?”
“When Santa and Rudolph ate their snack!”
My one little word for this year is Make. I will go into details in another post but I hope to embrace the phrase ‘Get excited and make things!’ this coming year, including writing things (for work and pleasure).
I was also pointed by Ali to 6changes, a simple concept for introducing new habits in baby [...]
Gingerbread lattes
Carols
Nativity plays (seeing Toby’s first one this year was just brilliant)
Buying gifts
Rolls of beautiful wrapping paper
Sparkly things everywhere
New Christmassy scented candles
Bundles of cinnamon
Gingerbread men
Finding new decorations
Mulled wine and mulled cider (just had to stop this list to make some )
Christmas scrapbook supplies and card designs
Advent calendars
Cream on top of everything
Chocolate coins
Playing games
One tradition that I have picked up that wasn’t one of my family’s is that of Christmas pyjamas. You have a bath on Christmas eve and get all dry and find that someone has left you some brand new supercool pj’s and a new storybook for bedtime.
I’ve done it every year since Toby was 18 [...]
Boxing day – traditionally one of extra little presents, cold meats, salad and a metric butt ton of mashed potato. This year we had the presents at the end of Christmas day but everything else remained intact. Which is more than can be said for my health as I spent a lot of the day [...]
Dean Martin is crooning, the washing machine is on its last cycle, the cats are snoozing (one even in the new catbed!). Daddy is going to pick up our own little angels and so the last preparation begins.
Actually, I’m really feeling the anticipation this year. Toby is excited, we’re excited he is excited, and I’m [...]
Two days into December and nothing but rain today. November was sodden and there seems to be no let up so far. I remember December as being deep and crisp and even, in frost if not actual snow, and I can remember walking home from Midnight Mass and snowflakes flurring around gently, melting underfoot.
I’m mildly [...]
So, from the end of Nov to the 24th of Dec (ahem), I’m going to be hosting a small blog party of makes from my friends of blogland. Come by each day to see a new project and find a new friend. Most of these ladies are new to regular blogging so it’ll be nice [...]
…how we spend all day ferrying the kids and working and running from here and there but it only takes one photo like this, that you took on a cold beach, on a day visiting my great aunt, that reminds me of all the reasons I love you. Only love makes a cold beach in [...]
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