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 …
Having a Christmas with a child missing is really hard. And I think this year was probably the hardest. You see 2012 was the first year everyone expected it to be hard. Last year we were in a Boo bubble he was only 22 days …
It is something we have to think about every year! And something that does take a long time every year. How to include Rhianna Lily into our Christmas celebrations. There is a fine line to include her, but to not make Christmas all about her. …
So Baba’s birthday has been, Halloween has been, which means we have Mr L’s birthday, Boo’s birthday and then Christmas. Finally I need to get my Christmas hat on and start thinking about presents. I love Christmas. I love Christmas shopping but I really don’t …
For our first Christmas without Rhianna Lily family members brought her some lovely stones and items for her grave which Mr L and I went to get after a little while and brought home. This Christmas the amount of items that were brought was reduced …
It is only 6 weeks away until Christmas. The Christmas Adverts are out on TV, and everywhere you look people are getting ready. The decorations are being put up in the streets and the shops are filling up with Christmas products. You can no longer …
In November I started to think of things that Baba could get people for Christmas, and for the first time he was involved in what he wanted to get everyone and he quickly said that he wanted to make presents. We had various ideas thrown …
We are growing a scientist in our family. Baba got a science kit for Christmas, and since then all he has wanted to do is “do experiments” he has wanted to put raisins into fizzy, and mix food colouring with water and oil and mix …
I really wanted Rhianna Lily involved this Christmas. We all wanted her involved. But I also wanted everyone to have something special that was just for Rhianna Lily. I went off and started a little project on my own, that was just for our little …
Baba loves to craft, he has inherited this from me, and will happily sit for hours doing different crafting activities. His Christmas list was easy this year, Angry Birds, Lego, Trash Packs, Playdoh and Art Stuff, and he managed to get everything on his list …