I adore Christmas – even more so
now J is at an age where he is really enjoying it, too.
I like to try and do as many
Christmassy activities as I can with him. These days are the memories for him
for when he’s older. I want him to have great Christmas memories like I do.
On Friday 28th
November was the Christmas Lights Turn On in town. My mum came up and we
collected J from school and picked up fish & chips on the way home. We got
home, got changed and ate dinner, then bundled up and headed into town. There
was a night market, Father Christmas in his grotto, churches were open
showcasing nativity displays and offering hot chocolate to visitors, there was
a small fairground for younger children and Christmas songs playing. After the
lights were turned on the walk home was punctuated with spotting the lights all
around town.
In the poundshop while out
shopping the following week, I found a kit for making sparkly angels. At home J and I had a
fantastic time doing them. After we’d done them, we started on J’s homework for
that weekend – making snowflakes. After we’d cut out the snowflakes we
decorated them with glue and leftover glitter from the sparkly angels. Glitter
everywhere – much fun.
One day at school, J and his
class decorated gingerbread men. J was eating his on the way home and got as
far as just having the legs left and doing the gingerbread song about “run,
run, as fast as you can”. He then went to pop the legs in his mouth and missed,
dropping them on the pavement! Disaster. As you can imagine, he created quite a
fuss of epic proportions about that, so I pacified him by saying we’d make more
gingerbread at home. I’d never made gingerbread before, but we’ve got a really
good baking book, and I found an easy recipe to follow. Our first batch of
gingerbread was a success and J was absolutely thrilled to bits that we’d done
it.
On Saturday 6th
December, Father Christmas visited the local garden centre with two of his
famous reindeer – Dancer and Prancer. J and I went along to say hello. I’d
never met reindeer before in such close quarters either – I was as excited as
the kids to get to stroke Prancer’s nose when she came over to me for a bit of carrot! Dancer was obviously
exhausted – all danced out by the time we arrived perhaps, as it was toward the
end of the afternoon.
After I’d got some more Christmas
presents, I spent Tuesday wrapping presents while J was at school and that
evening Daddy P and I continued on the task. I love wrapping presents – I put
on some Christmas music, chuck a splash of Baileys into my hot chocolate and
away I go. This year I even treated myself to a sticky tape dispenser, to the
dismay of my husband, but to my great delight.
His school participated in Save
The Children Christmas Jumper day so I asked him what jumper he’d like for it.
He requested a pale blue Olaf jumper – I thought he was being far too exact and
would be disappointed by whatever I managed to find him, but I found exactly
what he was after on E-Bay and happily clicked ‘Order’. As part of the
fundraising, the school also invited parents to come for Christmas dinner and
wear a Christmas jumper too. Grandma Parker and myself both went along, both
buying and wearing a Christmas jumper specially! (We’re both planning to wear
them at Christmas, too, and we know that Daddy P and Grandad P are utterly
thrilled by this news)
Today my mum and dad are coming
up for the day and we’re heading out for a meal with them to celebrate Dad’s
birthday (which is on the 23rd, but Daddy P and I won’t both see my
dad again before then) so we’re booked into a local restaurant for a ‘festive’
menu at lunchtime. It’s been a few weeks since I saw my dad, so I’m really
looking forward to it.
So far we’re having a very lovely
festive time … Hope you all are too!
Love,
Mummy P
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