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Wordless Wednesday… Last One of 2014 [Linky]

It’s our last Wordless Wednesday of the year, and our last first Christmas as our Baby Hero, our little sugarplum, celebrates his first visit from Father Christmas. There are so many lasts and firsts this year and as we turn the clock into the New Year. Our first January as a family of five, our…

SEASONAL FAMILY TRADITIONS

CHRISTMAS EVE 2014

For the first time in forever, someone wrote their own letter to Father Christmas, phonetically. After Excalibur wore his silver harness and crossed the Rainbow Bridge, we tearfully made our way through Christmas Eve, making reindeer food in the most haphazard way ever, and putting our sign out, so Father Christmas would know where we…

LIFE WITH BOYS

CHRISTMAS PARTY ENAILS! [REVIEW]

Before I was a parent, I had time to myself. Quite honestly, since my boys arrived, taking care of myself has become a permanent backseat priority. I used to have nice hair, make up and nails – and now I have a ponytail or plait, I’m fresh faced and my nails are bare. I’m a…

CRAFTS

DIY SANTA STOP [ASDA]

When I was little, Father Christmas clearly was lied to thought I was a well behaved child because each year he left me presents. In my bedroom he would leave a pillowcase stuffed with gifts and then downstairs he would leave the “big” present. Every year it was the same – it was always the…

LIFE WITH BOYS

Wordless Wednesday…

It’s a terrible photo, but it’s the only one I have. My little camel in his first nativity. So truly proud.

LIFE WITH BOYS

A NEW YEARS’ RESOLUTION I CAN KEEP [CARDNEST]

I love New Year’s Resolutions. I look forward to the end of the year when I can refocus and try and improve myself in the year ahead. And unlike the lose weight/stop spending/find time for me resolutions which I promise myself will happen every year in some tenuous manner, I do also think of ways…