On the sixth day of Christmas we designed our Christmas card. Last year it featured our new kittens with Santa hats on and this year it features Edward in his Santa’s Little Helper outfit. On a very cold day we took him to our local park, Alexandra Palace, and took lots of pictures. This was our favourite. I don’t enjoy sitting down and writing them (does anyone?) but I love the satisfaction of putting them all in the post box and sending them off to friends and family around the world.
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I think I may have gone overboard with Christmas presents for Edward. I’m not sure if it’s because it’s his first Christmas or because I want to spoil him (or both!). So far he has some lovely vintage wooden toys as well as clothes and toys. Everywhere I look I see more clothes I want to buy for him though. Who could blame me for wanting to dress him up as a mini Santa in this outfit, or add these cute elf pram booties for a brisk post-Christmas lunch walk? I’m trying very hard to stop spending. Today he spent…
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The lovely people at Stokke asked if we would be interested in reviewing a Table Top for our Tripp Trapp. Now we all love our Tripp Trapp. It makes mealtimes easier as we can all sit at the table together, it enables me to put Edward somewhere safe whilst I’m busy in the kitchen, it grows with your child and it’s the only item of baby furniture that I would recommend to anyone. To be honest though, I was a bit sceptical about the point of the Table Top. When I opened the box I was pleasantly surprised to find…
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…the snow finally came. I’d been watching the news about the snow fall and feeling left out until last night. About 10pm the snow started falling and barely stopped all day. Fortunately my husband was discharged from hospital today so we decided to take Edward for a walk so he could see his first snow. This was also our first opportunity to see how the Quinny coped in the snow. So we bundled ourselves up in layers of clothing and off we went. The Quinny handled well in the snow. I had to push it quite hard to get it…
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I am very excited to tell you that Edward has been chosen as a Maclaren Kid Tester! He won’t be testingĀ other kids but as part of Team Maclaren we have the opportunity to test beginning….by Maclaren bath products! A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to win a bottle of their new Balancing Facial Mist for mum’s on their Facebook page so I can’t wait to try more products š We’ll be reviewing the products throughout December so check back to read our thoughts. You can also join Maclaren on Facebook and also follow them on Twitter.…
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Hooray, finally we can open our Advent Calendars and light our Advent candle. As we’re spending Christmas with my mum she mentioned we should sit down and start planning meals over Christmas! I don’t think we need to do this just yet but my mum is so organised she has already ordered the turkey and beef from the butcher. Fortunately she has gone away for a few days to celebrate her birthday which has left me with some time to finish off Edward’s advent calendar. It’s a pre-printed fabric panel with pockets for each day of December. Sadly he’s too…
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I hate to admit it but being married to a true IT geek means I am currently sitting in the hospital with my MacBook Air and MiFi card. My husband is asleep (and still no news when he will be discharged) so I am taking the opportunity to do a little online shopping. Apparently yesterday was Cyber Monday which sees a big boom in internet shopping and lasts for eight days. I’m still searching for a birthday present for my mum who is 70 on Thursday and I really like the look of some of the casual boots from Next.…
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My 6 year old niece has banned us from talking about the C word until the 1st of December (apparently her teacher has enforced this in the classroom). However we can’t help it and we certainly can’t escape it in the shops, on the radio, in the papers. Even the local Council have already put up trees and switched on the twinkly lights in every town!
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Orla Kiely, has created an exclusive range of reusable shopping bags to raise funds for charity.Ā The limited edition, collectableĀ bags will launch exclusively through Tesco this December. CLIC Sargent is Tesco Charity of the Year 2010 and the aim of the partnership is to raise Ā£5 million to help fund specialist childrenās nurses across the UK, so children with cancer can spend more time at home. The Orla Kiely bags will retail at only Ā£4, with fifty pence from each sale divided equally between CLIC Sargent and Orlaās personal charity. I can’t wait to get my hands on a special…