CHRISTMAS EVE 2014
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Our Christmas Eve Boxes have been a long-standing tradition in our family, adopted from an American friend of mine and encouraged by a lovely Swiss lady I used to work with, whose family always opened one of their presents on Christmas Eve and shared them as a family. I love that it’s like a little pre-Christmas…
St. Patrick’s Day celebrations made simple! I hauled my box full of St. Patrick’s Day stuff from “that cupboard” this morning after the boys had started school, to see what I had ready for next week. Over the past few years I’ve collected a few bits that I use every year and as St. Patrick’s…
Last year we began our Christmas tree chopping tradition after the mister was tipped off about a tree farm by a work colleague. It’s one of my most cherished holiday rituals now and much more exciting to us than just buying a tree from the local nursery. Now, as a family, we are amazing terrible at missing deadlines….
I had never picked cherries. When I was a little girl, cherries magically appeared to me, in a crinkled and scrunched up brown paper bag with the top rolled down, proffered by my beautiful granny on a Saturday afternoon after her mid-morning trip to the greengrocers at the top of her road. We spent afternoons…
Following on from yesterday’s post featuring six of the best edible Christmas Advent calendars, as I was saying, this year we’ve decided to investigate as many advent calendars as possible not only for little people but for us grown-ups too. There were around 30 amazing beauty ones that I looked at, but these are my…
Dear Hero, Merry Christmas, tiny one. How the time has flown by. I have to remind myself that you’re still a baby – and yet you’re so headstrong already. You’re the most contented little boy – feeding brilliantly, sleeping like no baby we’ve known, and bursting our hearts with your smile each time our eyes…
Aww bless sounds perfect x
Aww, the kids are so cute. I am so glad to hear that you had a nice Christmas Eve – oh and how great that he wrote his own letter to Santa 🙂
What a great Christmas! I love the matching pajamas on the boys. Happy New Year to your family!
Beautiful pictures. Is that reindeer food? We did oats and glitter!
A phonetic letter to Santa is a huge deal! Your boys are adorable.
Your kids are beautiful. What a great Post. I'll never forget when my kiddos wrote their very own letters to Santa. So awesome!
Awwwwww your Christmas eve sounds like it was great!!! Loving your photos too!!! Way too cute 🙂
Awe what sweet photo's. Great job on writing out his letter!
So happy to hear Santa was able to make it with his reindeer to your house–I mean how could he ever ignore a first ever letter written to him!
looks like you made a lot of family memories and started some new family traditions as well. great photography in this blog post. don't you wish santa was real?
So super sweet! We have never done reindeer food! Maybe we should next year!
Sounds like you had a wonderful and memorable Christmas. How sweet are your little ones! Happy New Year!
It looks like the kids were excited for Father Christmas. It looked like you really have an intimate and great Christmas.
awww bless they look so cute and love that sign, cannot believe christmas is now but a distant memory
Oh your boys are so cute! They remind me a lot of mine! Looks like a great Christmas and hope you have a happy and fulfilling New Year ahead!
Awww how cute! Your little ones are so precious. I love your post and your ideas 🙂 You had a very successful and memorable Christmas. Happy New Years to you all!! 🙂
Such beautiful pictures! You've captured their excitement for Santa's arrival perfectly in the last picture 🙂
These are two cute lil ones indeed. I love your little story it is so precious and cute. Thanks for sharing. What a great idea by the way.
Awww way too precious! Happy New Year!! Thank you for sharing.
What a lovely moment – the first letter writing to Father Christmas. So sorry to hear about Excalibur though #ssamazingachievements
Such lovely photographs, my boys wrote to Father Christmas for the first time this year
How fantastic that J wrote the letter on his own. Love L face on the doorstep. Love your pictures as always.
Thanks for linking up with Small Steps Amazing Achievements :0)
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