Posted in Special Day, YouTube on December 25th, 2009 3 Comments »
After not going to bed till past midnight on Christmas Eve, we weren’t prepared for a 5.30am wake up call! We’ve never been woken quite so early on Christmas morning, but the girls had gone to sleep very early the night before, hoping the night would pass quicker!
We’d packed their stockings with enough goodies [...]
Posted in Special Day on December 24th, 2009 3 Comments »
It’s here! The children have been asleep for hours and went without wanting stories and much earlier than normal (Charli even tidied her room!). They have been incredibly excited and there is so much magic in the air.
We have (I have) spent most of the day making a ginger-bread house…
The girls started off [...]
Posted in Charlotte, Sophie, YouTube on December 16th, 2009 2 Comments »
The girls have received a very special message from the man in the red-suit…
See Charli’s message and Sophie’s message.
They were so amazed to receive their messages… asking, ‘How does he know my name? How does he know where we live?’
They were particularly amazed when he said how old they were and what [...]
Posted in Charlotte, Sophie on December 5th, 2009 2 Comments »
The girls spent yesterday afternoon and this morning making advent castle calendars. Daddy-O got in on the act this morning and helped Charli out with her ‘haunted’ castle – eek!
Sophie has rainbow stickers hidden under the doors and windows of her castle, which I enjoyed helping her with.
We’re really getting [...]
Posted in Charlotte, Sophie on December 4th, 2009 3 Comments »
The girls transformed the dinning table into their craft base last night. Glitter and sparkles still remain, as though we’ve had a visitation from the fairies. The reason? Christmas cards for their teachers.
Charli has done cards for the teacher aides, the headmaster and the school secretary. She’s really hoping to [...]