inspired to share by Stacey's post I knew from the beginning that I wouldn't be able to keep up if I scrapped every photo, so my...

buy a couple more presents for the big kids do the grocery shopping pay for chickens wrap the presents make a sticky date pudding make butte...

The couch needs to be moved away from the tree The toy boxes need to be moved into the back room That table you can just see on the right (w...

{at our 2008 Christmas party} Dear Santa I wrote a letter to you last year, and promised to write again, but I'm not sure if my mushy-ba...

{2008} Lunch this year will look much the same - cooked, cold prawns and dipping sauce (I love a coriander/sweet chilli dipping sauce, Steve...

I'm a buy-it-in-the-January-sales-and-forget-it's-there-in-time-for-Christmas kind of gal, and a leave-it-until-the-last-minute-on-C...

I've been playing this album every Christmas since my parents first bought it - I think that was 1987, the year the album came out. When...

We have lots of traditions at Christmas time... most, in fact all, of them are traditions that I bring to our family, or we have started doi...

~~ cards finally finished ~~ ~~ a family photo ~~ ~~ dancing with Santa ~~ ~~ oh Swissmas tree ~~ ~~ more funky toys ~~

print out, cut and put in advent calendar all the activities for the kids advent - it starts tomorrow! DONE finish and post Christmas cards ...

I think my first Christmas without Chloe was 2004, when she was six, but it seems like it has been part of our Christmas "routine"...

I made this calendar for the kids last year. I had never really introduced Chloe to advent calendars, so it was the first year I tried it. I...

Every year we are bombarded with magazines touting the "perfect" Christmas/recipe/craft/decorating idea. {Is it the same in every ...

This is what my cards look like tonight. My list is huge this year - in fact, I have almost 90 names on my Christmas card list this year. So...

{told you I'm hopeless!} I'm hoping this is a binder of some sort, similar to the " Stories in Hand " binder (I was thinki...

I know I've probably left it too late - years late in fact, seeing as how I haven't written a letter to you since very early in my ...

{and some caramel mudcake that was left behind} so, it's been INSANE at our house for the last two days... two days of sheer lunacy, peo...

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Journal your Christmas has started! I am keeping up so far ~lol~ journalling reads - I decl...