Building Christmas spirit
I’m trying to get N excited by Christmas. Obviously he has no idea what it is, what it’s about, but it’ll be good to have someone else in the house who likes Christmas and gets excited by it, in contrast…
Seasonal
Easter and more
We celebrated Easter two weekends in a row…let’s face it, where chocolate’s involved that’s not a bad thing! The weekend before, we hosted our latest NCT group get together. It was great to see everyone again as we only have…
Oh Christmas tree
If you’re a regular reader, you’ll know that I was struggling to get agreement to put the christmas tree up…excuses given mainly revolved around “it’s dangerous with a nearly one year old”. Thankfully, after a lot of moaning and hints…
Iiiiittttt’s Christmas!
Well actually it’s Boxing Day, but it’s still the Christmas season. Christmas is a bit of a strange affair here because being on a farm, the animals still need feeding so first thing it was just N & myself, and…
Baby Christmas Party
Sunday was our little christmas party our NCT group had for the babies…or for us and the babies! Another chance to get them all dressed up while they’ll let us. All the men (apart from mine) came along too. One…
Listography: Top 5 things that make Christmas Christmas
The new listography challenge has been set: what makes Christmas Christmas. I love Christmas, but it’s always hard to combine both mine & OH’s traditions into one (even after 7+ years of marriage). Although he’s a bit of a bah…
Spooky Halloween babies
Halloween babies. Spooky or cute? It seems having a baby lets you dress them up (poor them, although great photos & comeback for when they’re older and being horrible teens). I hate fancy dress, so wanted something relatively tame for…
Tips for gifts and thank you photo cards
When you have a baby, the number of gifts can be large. Writing all the thank you notes takes some time. But it takes more time deciding what you’re going to send. Thank you photo cards I knew I wanted…