At this time of year so many people are talking about their family’s perfect Christmas day or their perfect Christmas dinner. Throughout the year people talk about their perfect summer holidays, their perfect weekends, their perfect evening out and their perfect birthday plans. There’s always a lot of perfect in the online world and I love reading about other people’s ideals, their aspirations and their hopes. But not everyone feels…
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One of our many Christmas traditions is a Christmas Eve Box and it’s something the children have come to know and love and something I really enjoy putting together. It’s really not anything too big and exciting but it’s something that means a lot. We have a personalised Christmas Eve crate that we bought last year and a personalised plate that we fill with goodies and leave out for Father…
Any reader will know how much we love Christmas and by this point in December our home is full of festive cheer. We usually put our tree up at the start of December and have a whole month surrounded by as many Christmas decorations as possible. This year we’ve spent the last couple of weeks getting the house ready for Christmas and shopping for the last bits and pieces at…
I’ve been working from home for two years now and before I worked from home I had no idea that there are so many things that would be useful in a home office space. I thought I’d put together a gift guide of ideas for people who work from their very own home based office. Although, many of these gifts would be great for anyone who works at a desk…
At the weekend we were invited to the Spinnaker Tower for their Toymaker’s Workshop. The children love the Spinnaker Tower so we were looking forward to seeing what it was like at Christmas – having only visited in the summer previously. We arrived at the Spinnaker Tower and were met with elves in the foyer who signed us in and chatted to the children until the Toymaker’s Workshop was ready…
Last week I was invited to the Thorntons Cheeky Elf Academy for a few lessons on how to keep the magic of Christmas alive and celebrate the launch of the Thorntons Cheeky Elf in the process. It was one of the nicest events I have ever been to and really helped to kick off the festive season for me. Now, if you’re a child reading this please close the screen…
At this time of year we always like to think of gifts that we can all enjoy together as a family – or that we can gift to other families for them to enjoy together. So here are a few ideas of great family gifts this Christmas. Games Games are always a favourite in our house and you can’t beat classic Monopoly as a great family gift idea. But, if…
