Hearing the word Christmas as the Summer turns to Autumn fills me with a mixture of excitement and dread. I love Christmas! However, I hate all the pressure that goes with it: The pressure to make a perfect day, to squeeze all the happiness of the year into a single day, to get the perfect […]
Christmas
Light up your Christmas with Notcutts – Review and Giveaway
The other day a friend was saying how she’d run out of time for getting Christmas presents for her family and ended up going to her local gardening centre to get her shopping done; despite her family not being huge on gardening. She didn’t get them much garden related presents, but rather novel things that […]
A calm and relaxing Christmas day
. We’re just wrapping up a lovely Christmas Day: It all started with a lie-in, till 8am for all. …No wonder after the excitement of presents last night! (We celebrate differently from most UK families.) After us all cuddling in bed and reading a couple of stories from one of the books the Littlins got […]
Christmas Eve- It’s very special for us
. We each have our own Christmas traditions that we grow up with- my family certainly had strong traditions for celebrating Christmas. Oh-so-lovely-daddy brought his own traditions, perhaps not as prominent, as they place a much bigger emphasis on Sinterklaas. Together we have created traditions that suite us, while respecting eachother’s strong feelings and adopting […]