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One of our favourite Christmas Eve traditions is leaving out a bowl of magic reindeer food to help guide Santa’s reindeer to our home. But did you know the traditional recipe often uses glitter, which is harmful to wildlife? That’s why we make an animal-safe version with oats and sprinkles – it’s safe for birds,
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Both my boys have suffered with Eczema throughout their lives. This is something that we have had to manage as a family and they go through phases when it is worse than normal, but thankfully we mostly have it under control as a family. Yes I say as a family, as looking after their eczema
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Can you remember what you got for Christmas last year or the year before? I know that I can’t. In fact as I get older these things seem more and more important to me, so this year I am going to create a Christmas memories book for us to use. Sort of like a scrapbook where
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The RSPCA do an incredible job of rescuing dogs, as well as other pets, with 245,590 animals being collected and rescued by the hard-working RSPCA last year. However, they need continual help and support, especially at Christmas time. Here’s how you can help: Adopt a pet You too can rescue dogs this Christmas by adopting
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Is there anything better than receiving a homemade card……. yes, a homemade gift and I love receiving gift a child has made. Over the years the boys have made lots of gifts, in fact it is something that we have become know for. We make the Grandparents and family gifts and also their teachers get
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We love making decorations as a family for our Christmas tree and this year we are joining in again with 10 days of kid made ornaments and this year they are inspired by a book. So ours are tree decorations inspired by The Fir Tree by Hans Christian Anderson. Each year we buy new christmas
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One of our family traditions is homemade Christmas crackers. For as long as I can remember we had small cracker presents on the dining table usually made by my mum. They were precious things that were small and once I got older we each took a turn year on year to make the crackers and
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We love advent and one of the ways we celebrate is to have an advent wreath or ring that we light each sunday to help celebrate the lead up to Christmas. The first Sunday of advent for 2014 in November 30th. Me and the boys have spend the last few days making this years advent
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In the midst of the “nesting” phase of pregnancy, most prospective mothers (and fathers, for that matter) are excitedly preparing a nursery for their imminent arrival. It’s certainly one of the most thrilling parts of the nine month period – but few would disagree that it’s also incredibly daunting. While we don’t want to put
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