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Delivery from Santa: A look in Lydia’s stocking, aged 10 months

Stocking filler ideas for a 10 month old

Last week I posted about the contents of Georgie’s stocking, and here is what I got for Lydia. Our baby girl will be pretty much 10 months old at Christmas time, so I have tried to find small toys that she will find stimulating, fun and soothing to her poor gums! Most of these are …

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Delivery from Santa: A look in Georgie’s stocking, at 2 & a half years

Stocking ideas for a 2 year old

This year I want to get Christmas organised early. We have a lot to sort out before the big day and I want to get the stress of present buying, particularly for the kids, out of the way asap. One night last month I couldn’t sleep, and so I did the Christmas shopping instead! I …

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Our Crazy Christmas

Hello! I hope that everyone has had a wonderful Christmas and that you are enjoying these peaceful days between the Christmas excitement and the New Year celebrations. We have had a lovely week, although it’s a bit of an understatement to say that Christmas didn’t go quite to plan this year…

To start things off, Asda managed to seriously mess up our Christmas dinner groceries delivery on Sunday 23rd, which meant that we had to spend part of our Christmas Eve searching the supermarkets for missing items – in particular, the makings of the necessary pigs in blankets, and a Christmas pudding! After hitting a few of the biggest shops we managed to track down everything we needed, though it wasn’t quite the restful morning we had planned after James had driven to Northumberland and back at the weekend to fetch his grandparents.

Stocking hanging on the tree - Bedtime stories with Daddy... and after lights out!
Stocking hanging on the tree – Bedtime stories with Daddy… and after lights out!

Once we’d sorted all that out, and been to the hospital and back for my antenatal clinic & consultant appointment (all is ok in that department), we had dinner as usual and settled Georgie into bed. We hung her Christmas stocking on her little tree, then sorted, boxed & piled up the masses of stuff we needed to take to my Mother-in-Law’s the next day to spend the day celebrating with her and her parents, including the slightly daunting task of cooking Christmas dinner for everyone.

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Visiting Santa at the Safari Park

Last Wednesday James, Georgie and I went to West Midland Safari Park to see Santa, along with 3 coaches full of babies, toddlers & parents from the local sure start centre. Georgiana was quite excited to get on the coach and spent the journey on our laps, as well as making a break for it …

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