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 [...]
6.15am – Toby wakes and runs downstairs to discover presents under the tree. He runs back up shouting ‘Father Christmas has been!’
6.20am – Toby corralled into his bedroom to open his stocking presents. Many squeaks and a ‘how cool is that?!’ gets a giggle even from Mummy, who still has her head under a pillow.
6.45am [...]
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 [...]
That’s it. I’m done. I’ve bought every last thing on Amazon and stuffed it into boxes, bags and sacks. The kids have their own Santa sacks but for this year hubby and I are settling for pillowcases for our little gifts. I’m going to try and find a new and nice one each years until [...]
… about to find out if people in M&S, 3 days before Christmas, are naughty or nice.
Yes, I have a few things left to do:
move the tree in from the conservatory
wrap the remaining gifts
buy food for us to eat from today up until the 27th, excluding Christmas dinner (hello, Cook!)
tidy up all our bedrooms and [...]
Leaving aside the ‘religious festival crowbarred onto a pagan celebration’ argument for a moment, it seems to me that Christmas falls at the wrong time for us Northern Hemisphere people. The Aussies and Kiwis have got this one down right for sure. There is of course the option of surfing on Christmas day, spending time [...]
Late Thursday night, Mother Nature decided to dump about 8 inches of snow over Brighton. A snow day was declared, although the snow was found to be too fine and fluffy for good snowmen building, and it was a fun Friday. Right up til about 4pm when it became clear getting a taxi to the [...]
There is nothing big I ask for this year, just a simple list:
1) A lie-in for my and the husband together. Simply a day where both kids don’t wake before 8am would be *bliss*.
2) No arguments on Christmas day – my husband and small son not to be at loggerheads over what constitutes ‘enough’ dinner. [...]
recent comments