I had all the best intentions today. I was going to do a quick tidy up after the weekend, and then quickly crack on with some Christmas shopping online and then write a follow up Meal Planning Monday post from last weeks meal plan Monday …
Let’s talk about that C word – Christmas. It’s something none of us like to mention to early, but it is something that I have been thinking more and more about recently. Once the boys went back to school I thought that I had really …
This weekend has been mental. I think we are walking around like zombies this evening but it has been amazing even though we are all absolutely shattered. Today it is Mr L’s birthday and the day has been a brilliant day. We celebrated in style …
Don’t worry I haven’t got my Christmas decorations up yet but it isn’t long until Christmas and I really haven’t been feeling it yet this year. Usually I am a lot more excited. This year it hasn’t hit me yet. And I was a little …
Tomorrow is the last day of the Christmas holidays for the boys. It seems such a short holiday this year, even though they have had two weeks off, it has flown past and there were so many things that we didn’t actually get to do. …
When the Elves first started to be honest I wasn’t that fussed about doing them. Now five years later actually the boys love them and get excited about them arriving. They have been asking about them for the past week and I told them we …
This year I have loved adding to our Christmas decorations but one thing that has been really bugging me is having a nativity scene it is something that I have really wanted to have not a funky one, or a child one but a traditional …
So Baba has finished school, and Christmas can finally begin. However exciting that is, it also brings the mayhem that happens before Christmas. The week where I run around like a mad person trying to get everything ready and sorted before Christmas day. Every year …
This Christmas has been a but of a sickly one. It started with Baba, fighting an illness for so long and then finally succumbing to it on the 17th December the day after his school play. All of his symptoms suggested tonsillitis but once we …