All About: It's Christmas

Christmas Movie Musings I’m going to start with a few confessions: I’ve never watched It’s a Wonderful Life. I like Elf but don’t love it. I’m scared of the Grinch. So, if you think we can still be friends after those shocking...

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At home our favourite Christmas movie is Santa Paws.  We have watched it every year since my eldest (almost 11) was 4 and introduced Toby and Eve to it last year when they were 4.  Santa Paws definitely lets us know that its Christmas...

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As a busy mum of three life can get really hectic. On top of all the demands of family life (scheduling things in our calendar, laundry, homework, regular work…the list goes on) I am always conscious of what I call the three M’s: money, mood...

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I'll begin with an embarrassing confession; something I usually don't tell other adults. It relates to revealing my favourite film. While I love much of Scorsese's and Tarantino's work, neither has produced a movie that I know so well that each...

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Do you know what I love most about Christmas?  The fact that I am now SANTA!! I used to look forward to the festivities; planning my outfits for countless Christmas party nights, carefully selecting and wrapping presents for family and...

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The festive season is not always a time of celebration for families in crisis and on the brink of a relationship breakdown or marriage split. Research has shown that the stress of trying to have the perfect “chocolate box” Christmas when you...

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It's the most wonderful time of the year! As part of our Daughter's homework, she had to make a decoration for the classroom Christmas tree using things from around the home. What better decoration to make than a reindeer, a Rudolph one at that!...

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With the Christmas holidays fast approaching, most of us are beginning to think about the festive season and spending time with our loved ones.   If you are a parent who has recently separated this may be a particularly emotive time of...

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The Christmas season is here and our resident book worm has scourced some magical festive reads for the whole family. In this edition we have the new reimagining of a classic - The Snowman, we read about a young boy meeting Father Christmas and...

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As the start of December approaches, many people turn their attention to the Christmas holidays. You’ll notice Christmas trees going up in your neighbourhood. You’ll hear the catchy jingly tunes in the shopping centres. You’ll definitely see...

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Our Family love the festive season. We really do. Over the years we have introduced new traditions to help us celebrate the run up to Christmas. As a Family we try to make December a really magical month filled with even more love, new experiences...

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I don’t know about you but it feels like literally the second Halloween half term is over, Christmas panic kicks in.  I drove past a house in my area on the 1st November that had its Christmas decorations up.  It didn’t make me feel...

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The Mums NI team received a very special invite to have mince pies and hot chocolate with none other than Mr Claus himself. This was an invitation that we would never refuse so we packed our trusty notebook and pen and took him up on his kind...

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The Mums NI team had an interesting visit with Mr Claus this week and he showed us around his wonderful Toy Workshop (where the Elves work all year long!) and fed us some warm mince pies with cream and a cup of hot chocolate.  We asked him...

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