Christmas Beginnings

 

CHRISTMAS!

One of my favourite times of year I think...when the decorations go up and your home begins to feel cosier as it gets dark outside and you can sit in the warm and sit mesmorised by the twinkling lights.  The tree has always been allowed up from the 1st of December...so without fail our tree was assembled!  It's not a real tree but it's a good fake one.  One year when my little man's old enough I'm sure we'll go off to one of these places where you pick and chop down your own tree...that sounds like an excellent family start to Christmas...the thought of my little, and my not so little, men cutting down the Christmas tree brings a smile to my face.

My little man checking out the tree...

My husband puts the tree together...and I do the decorating with his approval (or dissaproval) from the comfort of the sofa.  We always buy one new decoration every year to add to our tree so we've got a bit of an eclectic mix on our tree...but that's how we like it.  Then we can look back and think about the associations we can make with the decorations we have.

 The addition this year is very important....a Christmas Cracker.

First Christmas Bauble

Not just any cracker...this is the cracker from Southampton General Hospital as last year I was discharged home at 6pm Christmas Evening having had my little man the previous evening.  From memory the Christmas dinner in hospital was awful...although I think I was too excited and scared to think about food at the time.  I was dissapointed I didn't have a 1st Christmas Bauble, so we took the cracker which will always remind us of our little mans' first Christmas.




 Some exciting news in the house...Santa has written to my little man! He wrote a nice personalised poem and sent it by Rudolph express delivery!  I had my doubts...but I think this has reconfirmed the reality of Santa!

A letter from Santa!!!!

 Hope your Christmas sets off to a good start...! 

Love from me and my little man x