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Category Archives: Christmas

Wishing you all a peaceful Christmas

24/12/202322/12/2023

Wishing all my readers a peaceful Christmas and sending love to all those who find this time of year difficult for whatever reason.  

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Merry Christmas

24/12/202221/12/2022
A Photoshopped picture of Jessica, Sophie and Thomas holding ice-skating penguins inside a snow globe

I’m taking a break from the blog over the Christmas period so just wanted to wish all my readers a peaceful Christmas. Sending much love to all those who find this time of year hard. I hope the festive season will be gentle to you.    

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Wishing you a gentle Christmas

23/12/202121/12/2021
Jessica standing next to a snowman with Sophie standing behind Thomas (dressed as a snowman) against a snowy backdrop

To all my readers, Thank you for following my blog over the last year. I hope that your Christmas will be as nice a one as it can be. Lots of love to those of you I know who will find Christmas this year to be a difficult one – wishing you a peaceful festive… Read More

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Christmas crafts: Nativity crafts for kids

08/12/202107/12/2021
A Nativity scene in a shoebox showing Mary and Joseph with baby Jesus in the manger; a shepherd with his sheep; a King and an angel

We love doing crafts in the run-up to Christmas. Over the years we’ve made a few different nativity-themed crafts, ranging from simple preschool crafts, such as the ‘Baby Jesus in the manger’ craft through to more involved craft projects, like our shoebox nativity scene. They’ve all been a lot of fun to make and some… Read More

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Our Christmas traditions – creating a book advent calendar

14/11/202124/11/2021
A selection of Christmas books on a table

One of our Christmas traditions is to have a book advent calendar. Each evening in December, in the run-up to Christmas, the children get to unwrap that day’s Christmassy book, which we then read together. It’s a lovely way of making sure we take time to relax and snuggle up together with a story each… Read More

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Merry Christmas

21/12/2020
Sophie and Thomas dressed as shepherds with Sophie's toy goat and Jessica dressed as an angel against a starry sky background

I’ll be stepping away from the blog from now until the end of December. Wishing all my readers a peaceful and gentle Christmas. Hope that you all stay safe and well over the festive period and are able to find moments of joy in amongst what is going to be a very difficult Christmas for… Read More

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Crafting with kids: Tissue paper ‘stained-glass’ Nativity scene

16/12/202001/12/2021

Small squares of tissue paper stuck on to sticky-back plastic is a great way of creating ‘stained-glass’ decorations to go on windows. We still have the Christmas tree and star that the girls made a few years ago which come out each year to decorate our living room windows. Now that Sophie’s older, I thought… Read More

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I'm Louise, mummy of three - Jessica, forever six, who was born with half a heart and lives on in mine; and heart-healthy Sophie (born 2013) and Thomas (born 2018). I blog about living with grief after child loss, crafts, days out and the little moments of family life.

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