Christmas Traditions

We all have traditions that make Christmas special for our family.

When I had my kids I started thinking about traditions I wanted to start with my family.

Today I'm sharing some of our old and new traditions that we love doing every year.

School Holidays means pancakes in our house.

Chocolate chip Christmas shaped pancakes.

They love these.

Every year I sit down with a big mug of hot chocolate, the Christmas TV guide and a highlighter and mark off all the movies that we're going to watch over the holidays.

It's not Christmas until you've seen the big man in the red suit.

Little Man was in LOVE with Ho ho ho.

That's what he calls him.

One of my faviourite places to go every year is Listowel Garden Center. 

They have, hands down, the best Christmas display I have ever seen.

They transform the entire shop into a winter wonderland with every kind of decoration you can imagine.

Christmas Bliss!!

This is a new tradition.

I made up nice list certificates and letters from Santa for the kids.

Jasmin was over the moon to hear from Santa and to see she was on the Nice list.

I whipped up a little chocolate bar wrapper too just for the heck of it.

I found these adorable printab;le Santa letters on Pinterest.

Where else, right!?

They were so much fun for the kids to use.

You can read all about them here.

Christmas Cards for her school friends is a very important tradition for Jasmin.

Even though they are very time consuming, she would be devastated if we didn't do them.

What's Christmas without 30 plus hand written cards?

For the past two years we've gone to Jasmins Christmas show and It was the highlight of my Christmas so for this year.

She was an Angel.

But no ordinary Angel.

She put her heart of soul into every move and shake and sang her heart out.

She even  scolded me for not clapping enough all the way from the stage.

(apparently, trying to hold her brother up to see was NOT an good enough excuse)

The last tradition I love doing is my Christmas Eve box.

I fill a big box with new pj's for everyone, sweets, popcorn, hot chocolate, Christmas movies, and anything else that takes my fancy.

I'll be doing a post in that when I've got it made up, so keep an eye out for it.

Do you have any traditions that I missed out that I just have to do.

Share them with me.

I'm always wanting to add some more.

Thanks for reading.

My Favourite Free Christmas Fonts

I love Christmas!

Everything is just extra fancy.

Homes.

People.

Even Fonts.

I love making up printable and prints for around the house.

So, today I'm sharing my favourite links to my favourite FREE fonts.

I hope you enjoy using them as much as I did.

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I've used some of these to make printables and cards for family.

I LOVE them.

Now go use them.

Merry Christmas!!

Naughty list warning : FREE printable

Am I the only one that needs to use the "Santa's watching" card.

My kids are good kids.

But when I'm low on patience and can't listen to the fighting any more..

I use it.

"You'll be on Santa naughty list if you don't stop...

Killing your brother.

Climbing on the table.

The list could go on.

I don't think it's pulling as much weight as I was hoping though.

So I made this Printable for all you moms and dads that are finding the same.

Nothing works better than a letter from the big man himself to get them behaving.

Yes, It might be a little naughty on my half but I could do with a little help if things get worse.

So, here you go.

Just right click on the image and save it to your computer.

(Personal use only)

Feel free to share it around or pin it.

I hope it works for you.

Thanks for stopping by.

A letter for Santa. Plus a FREE printable

I love this time of year.

The time we spend together as a family.

Making memories and starting new traditions.

I used to love writing my letter to Santa Claus.

The thought that the big man himself would be reading MY letter.

The excitement of it all.

My little girl loves fancy paper and loves writing little notes for people.

Even if you can't understand all of it. Ha!

I wanted to make it even more special for the kids this year.

I was going to try design my own letters for them but just didn't have to time.

So what do you do when you don't have time to be creative...

Search Pinterest, of course.

I found the cutest FREE printable over at www.raininghotcoupons.com.
I've decided they are so cute I'm going to share some Blog Love with her.

She designed 5 beautiful Dear Santa letter templates.

A pink one for the girlie girls and classic red with Santa and reindeer.

I choose the Snowman and pink presents for my two.

If you haven't written you letters to Santa yet these are a lovely treat for the little ones.

Click here to find the one that's perfect for you little one.

Now, If I can just get them to decided what they actually want and stick to it.

Oh, the joys of being a parent.

Thanks for stopping by.

Happy 6th Birthday

I cant believe that my little girl is 6 years old.

I remember the day I gave birth to her like it was yesterday.

The fear, the love, the emotions.

You are the one that made me a Mom and I will always love you.

No matter what comes, good or bad, I will love you.

Happy Birthday Pig.

xxx