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Making Christmas Crackers With a Foreign Language Twist
Rosetta Stone sent us a cracker-making pack and we had so much fun putting them together. For Talitha, it’s all new. She keeps noticing all these images of paper crowns and wants to know what it’s all...
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Reasons I’m Undecided About Santa Claus
It kind of surprised us this year that we’d have to think about Santa Claus. We’d given it very little thought and pretty much expected it to be something that was at least another year away. Of...
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Peter Spier’s Christmas!
My mother-in-law unpacked her Christmas decorations this weekend, much to Talitha’s delight. As expected, since she’s a bookbinder, many beautiful and interesting things emerged from the boxes. I was...
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Make a Christmas Wreath from Natural Objects
Sadly, I didn’t have my camera with me when we made this. Alas! We were at my in-laws for the weekend and we swapped this craft into Talitha’s Advent Calendar activity for the day for convenience. I’m...
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31 Weeks Pregnant – On growing a baby over Christmas
I printed off a free 2014 calendar the other day and wrote in the pregnancy weeks as I keep finding myself making plans for next year and struggling to figure out how pregnant I’ll be by then. Then I...
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I’m not going to try so hard this Christmas
I may have over-extended myself a bit last year. I planned 25 activities for us to do with 2.5-year-old Talitha every day of Advent to Christmas Day. And good golly, somehow we managed it all. We even...
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Decorating a Christmas wreath with Laura Ashley
Last year, we went all out with the Christmas wreath. In my pregnant, hormonally festive/anxious state, everything needed to be “just so” and that included getting disproportionately stressed out about...
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Skating into the Christmas spirit
This time last year, the tree was up, the Advent calendar had been homemade way in advance, the carols had been playing for a while, festive activities planned for each day and I was some version of...
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Decorating a Christmas tree – the real life version
In a perfect world, the Christmas tree would have arrived. Ophelia would have slept or otherwise happily entertained herself. I would have tangibly demonstrated “you don’t need a man to do it” by...
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Gift ideas for preschoolers from The Works
Talitha and Ophelia’s stocking fillers “from Santa Claus” are all sorted now. It’s good to get that out of the way. I have an idea of what to get them from us but haven’t settled that yet. I know, time...
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A Christmas photoshoot – Personalising our Christmas cards with Postsnap
We had a bit of festive fun over the weekend running a little family photo shoot for our Christmas cards. I’d already bought Bristol-themed cards from a charity shop but Postsnap asked me to try their...
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Getting ready for Christmas in the Summer
This is going to sound a bit mad but I’ve started turning my thoughts to getting things ready for Christmas. The last minute rush of it all just isn’t for me – too stressful, too expensive and not...
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“Something Wonderful is About to Happen”– Win £100 with Virgin Experience Days
We’ve unashamedly got the Christmas feeling around here. Virgin Experience Days has asked me a few questions about what makes the lead up to the big day exciting in our home, so that’s probably got me...
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A family Christmas tree – Pines and Needles
For weeks, Talitha has been excited about our Christmas tree delivery on December 1st. Its promise proved a potent pick-me-up when she started to get the blues about our holiday in Madeira coming to a...
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10 ideas for celebrating Epiphany with children
I’ve been trying to observe the Christian calendar with my children a bit more this year. I didn’t grow up with it so it’s interesting delving into it myself and making discoveries alongside them. On...
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Planning ahead for a greener Christmas
This post is brought to you by UncommonGoods. It’s something that’s genuinely been on my mind and I hope we can share some ideas around it. I know, I know! How can I breathe the word “Christmas” when...
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Getting started on gift shopping – 50 Days of Christmas with Boots
In collaboration with Boots Despite my best intentions, I am generally a last minute shopper at Christmas time. Yes, I’ve been known to hit the…
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I printed off a free 2014 calendar the other day and wrote in the pregnancy weeks as I keep finding myself making plans for next year and struggling to figure out how pregnant I’ll be by then. Then I...
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I may have over-extended myself a bit last year. I planned 25 activities for us to do with 2.5-year-old Talitha every day of Advent to Christmas Day. And good golly, somehow we managed it all. We even...
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