We have just enjoyed our fourth Christmas as parents and had yet another wonderful couple of days. The girls were, of course, spoilt rotten and me and Tony didn’t do so bad either! For the first Christmas Eve since Lilly was born, Tony wasn’t working so we had the whole day together to get into [...]
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Christmas 2011
Posted in 1-2 years, 3-4 years old, Family life, tagged 18 months old, Christmas, four years old, presents on December 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Center Parcs has given us a festive feeling…
Posted in 1-2 years, 3-4 years old, Family life, Second trimester, tagged 17 month old, 27 weeks pregnant, 3 year old, Center Parcs, Christmas, Cumbria, Father Christmas, fireworks, pottery painting, Santa, six months pregnant, soft play, swimming, teddy bear making, walking, Whinfell Forest, Winter Wonderland on November 17, 2011 | 2 Comments »
We have just returned from another really lovely break at Center Parcs. This time, we wanted to experience the Winter Wonderland they do each year, as the first part of our build-up to Christmas. We had booked plenty of lovely Christmassy activities for Lilly to do, including Christmas pottery painting, a Santa and Snowman hunt [...]
The true spirit of Christmas
Posted in 3-4 years old, tagged charity, Christmas, learning, Operation Christmas Child, Samaritan's Purse, Toy on November 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Last year we took part in Operation Christmas Child for the first time. For those of you who aren’t familiar with this appeal, basically you fill a shoebox with presents and useful items for a child somewhere in the world who is otherwise likely to go without, wrap it in Christmas paper and the charity Samaritan’s [...]
Christmas 2010
Posted in 2-3 years, Family life, tagged baby, Christmas, Christmas tree, Father Christmas, first Christmas, places to go with young children, preparation, toddler on December 28, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Each year since we’ve had Lilly, Christmas has got more and more exciting. Her first Christmas, when she was almost one, was a bit of an anti climax because we were all poorly. Lilly enjoyed it but also found it all pretty overwhelming. Last year, at nearly two, Lilly understood a little more and thankfully [...]
Eating, sleeping and… being ill
Posted in 2-3 years, Newborn to 12 months, Work, tagged baby, Christmas, Father Christmas, returning to work, sick, sleeping through, starting nursery, toddler, tummy bug, weaning on December 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Well, it’s been a little while since I last blogged. There just doesn’t seem to have been any spare time anywhere the past few weeks to just spend half an hour with the computer… whenever there might have been a chance I’ve been so tired i’ve just been napping instead! So, just to bring things [...]
A seasonal way to to teach good will
Posted in 2-3 years, tagged appeal, charity, Child, Christian, Christmas, Operation Christmas Child, Samaritan's Purse, Toy on November 9, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Among the many qualities I hope to instil in my children is a charitable spirit, consideration for the feelings of others, kindness and a willingness to do nice things for other people just ‘because’. So I was excited this year to take part in Operation Christmas Child with Lilly for the first time. The idea [...]
It had to happen…
Posted in 2-3 years, tagged Astley Hall, Botany Bay, car journey, children's camera, Christmas, Handbag, parenting, Shopping, toilet training on October 31, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday we had a nice day with my mum visiting Botany Bay in Chorley. We had some nice lunch then wandered round their Christmas shop, where we picked up some Christmas colouring books for Lilly and a little red bell bauble which she took a shine to. Later, Lilly discovered the 1990s equivalent of a [...]
Had a lovely Christmas…
Posted in 1-2 years, Family life, Second trimester, tagged 14 weeks pregnant, 15 weeks pregnant, Boxing Day, carrot, Christmas, crayons, excited, feeling movements, first kicks, ice, morning sickness, morning sickness disappeared, Peppa Pig, presents, Rudolph, scared of Father Christmas, snow, stickers, stocking, The Night Before Christmas, Thomas the Tank Engine, trainset, wendy house on December 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s currently boxing day and all’s calm… Lilly’s asleep, i’m on the net and T is playing with his new computer game. We’ve had a really nice few days over Christmas. Unlike Lilly’s first, we were all in good health and able to enjoy ourselves, and it was lovely as Lilly was old enough to [...]
13 weeks three days – still feeling sick
Posted in Being pregnant, Second trimester, tagged 13 weeks pregnant, 20 week scan, 2nd birthday, birth, breech, caesarian, Christmas, failure to progress, general anaesthetic, hospital, labour, morning sickness, overdue, pregnant, swine flu, VBAC, Work on December 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Well, I am now totally “out of the closet” at work, in the family and with friends, which feels good! But just as I thought the morning sickness was fading a little it seems to have reared its head again – I felt terrible all day yesterday. However, I’m starting to think it might have [...]
Six weeks, four days
Posted in Being pregnant, First trimester, tagged 12 days overdue, 12 week scan, appointment, baby, baby bump, baby magazines, baby names, booking in, books, boy, checkup, chemotherapy, Christmas, Christmas baby, clothes, conceived, consultant, cots, daddy, daddy to be, dating scan, deciding, due date, ebay, family history of being overdue, feeling a fraud, feeling normal, fetal development, fetus, first babies, girl, happy, high blood pressure, hospital, hungry, husband, induced, induction, information, letter, ligaments stretching, LMP, magazines, maternity clothes, midwife, milestone, Mothercare, nausea, note, overdue, ovulation, pain when coughing, pain when sneezing, period, prams, pregnancy symptoms, pregnant, pregnant belly, queasy, reading, romantic, scan, six weeks pregnant, spring, summer, tender breasts, toys, Warrington on April 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
And yesterday, when i got up for work, i found a lovely note which T had written for me when he left a couple of hours earlier. It said: “You two have a good day, I love you both!” Really made me smile. What a brilliant daddy he’s going to be!!
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