Christmas

I know we’ve been seeing Christmas wrapping and listening to Christmas music in the shops for ages now, but for us it still didn’t feel like Christmas.  Well to me…

Never before have I seen my kids so excited to go to bed! But this Christmas Eve, they were begging to get into bed at 5pm already!  Even though they’d…

We’re finally on holiday. Just thinking the words brings up a mental image of people playing trumpets and jingling all the bells while we do the running man in the…

A little perspective… We didn’t have a tree.  Our house was bare.  We were still recovering from our break in and none of us were on holiday yet. The festive…

Dreams vs Reality I’m sure many moms have been through the experience I had, but in case you didn’t here’s the low down. Christmas is imminent and in the spirit…

This year is vastly different to the last, um, I dunno, 8 years of our marriage, in that we don’t have our tree up yet. I could easily blame this…

Hello there! I don’t know about you, but I’m finally starting to emerge from my food coma.  It’s taken a while longer than it should, but in all fairness I…

I don’t even know where to start this post.  It feels like I was just writing this one the other day – but it was a whole year ago! This…

THIS COMPETITION IS CLOSED Things are starting to get very festive around our little house.  From the tree being nearly always lit when we get home, to having little dinosaurs…

So, we did it. And surprisingly KEPT doing it. Even though it’s often a very last minute thought, we are now 3 nights in to the Dinosaurs coming alive in…

The end of the year and more importantly, Christmas has snuck up on me like Seth sneaks up to chocolate – stealthily, with purpose and without a care that you…

So a while back there was this big special day that we celebrated but I was kind of busy at the time so I didn’t blog about it.  But I…

The Christmas tree finally went up on Sunday.  Not the “traditional”, singing songs and laughing together as I had imagined.  It ended with me putting it up all by myself,…

A while ago I committed to doing the Blogger Secret Santa for South Africa. Part of doing this is that y0u need to write a little post on things that…

I don’t know what the best word would be to sum up the day…  Maybe Wow, or sigh or even just a flip….   What a manic day it was… It…

So in a previous post I mentioned that we wanted to introduce a new awesomeness to our traditions.  And finally we have it.  Welcome Gawpy… I am not sure that…