Tag: Christmas

Christmas Day 2019

Christmas Day 2019

So yesterday happened in a whirlwind of activity and everyone was spoilt and it was a fab day. And it was a fab day. The boys got presents. Rhianna got presents. I didn’t cry. It’s taken me seven years but this year I didn’t cry. 

Christmas Is Just Around The Corner

Christmas Is Just Around The Corner

And just like that I seemed to have blinked and Christmas is literally only a couple of days away! I am not really sure what has happened. It hasn’t crept up on me this year it has completely bulldozed into my life. We are pretty 

Handmade Wrapping Tags

Handmade Wrapping Tags

This year I am doing completely different wrapping for Christmas. I have ditched buying wrapping paper instead opting for brown paper and string to wrap and decided to make my own tags, with some of my scrapbooking stash that I have upstairs. I got some 

Christmas Decorating With A Child Missing

Christmas Decorating With A Child Missing

I love to decorate our house at Christmas. We always get our tree up early and we always have two trees and then last year we started putting a tree up for Rhianna as well. This year, the boys were really excited about her tree 

A Non Stop Weekend

A Non Stop Weekend

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 

What A Day

What A Day

Today has been one of those days. A day where I haven’t managed to really sit down and haven’t really stopped. I have been out shopping to buy birthday presents, to only be met with the fact that one person’s presents have all had to 

Are You Feeling It?

Are You Feeling It?

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 

Back To School

Back To School

Today the boys went back to school for the New Year. Boo was having none of it last night and absolutely refused to go to sleep, in fact he screamed, and cried for near on two hours about how much he was refusing to go 

Christmas Holidays

Christmas Holidays

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. 

One Decoration…

One Decoration…

Christmas is so hard when you have a child missing.  So hard. This year I am really finding it difficult and have already had a wobble about missing Rhianna and we are only on day five. One thing that I think is evident in everything