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Just settling down to watch the Christmas Day episode of Downton Abbey, and to update my blog on our Christmas Day. The time agreed upon for getting up was 7.30 am, and one excited 9 year old managed to get to sleep last night and contain his excitement until about 7.25 am! Everyone headed down…
Happy Christmas Eve to you, today I will share a few of our Christmas Eve traditions. I’ll start at the end, if you know what I mean, with a photo of my son reading “Twas a Night Before Christmas” to my husband …. we read this every year on Christmas Eve, since my son…
It’s almost Christmas, so today I will share our planned Christmas Dinner menu … and I expect our main course is fairly typical of what will be served in homes throughout Northern Ireland on Christmas Day. The main event of course is the turkey and ham – we collected ours from the lovely Clare at Blackberry…
Today was a day of two contrasting Christmas carol services in our church. This morning over 100 children and teens led our Sunday School carol service. They shared through reading, songs, prayers and drama the true meaning of Christmas. The Beginners and P2/3 sections were dressed appropriately for dramatizing the nativity …. the usual Mary,…
You would never guess that by 21 December I would be struggling to find topics to blog about – today I bring you Christmas plates! I know I can only use them for one month of the year, but I have gathered up a small collection of christmas-y plates and bowls over the years. None…
School is finished for all 3 of my kids for Christmas, and it was also Christmas Jumper charity day at my son’s school. A few years ago there weren’t many Christmas jumpers to be found but in the shops, but now they are everywhere! When choosing one for my son, thanks to my iPhone and…
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