Living Arrows 2018 53/53

Welcome back to another week of Living Arrows hosted by Donna over at What The Redhead Said. If you are new to this then the name of the linky comes from the poem by Kahlil Gibran "You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth"

Its the last post of 2018 and we have actually completed a whole year of Living Arrows posts! We spent last week at Nanny and Pappy's house in Surrey! It was the first time the boys had been there for Christmas and it was also the first time mummy and daddy had been there for Christmas since 2010! We had such a lovely time and the boys had a ball terrorising the cats Zippy and Cecil!

James and Freddie both had a great time while we were away! They were both well behaved on the trains to and from London and when we were crossing London via tube. 

They were both spoilt rotten by Santa at their grandparents house and also at out house when we returned! 

We then had Nana and Gaga over for a Christmas dinner on Sunday where they boys were spoilt with even more presents!

Merry Christmas

From All of Us

xxx

Blogmas Day Twenty Five

Merry Christmas! So Rhul and Elfis have gone back to the North Pole with Santa last night. So here is how we found them for the last few days in the run up to Santa's visit!

On Day 21 the pesky pair decided to sit on top of the mirror in our hall way! I think they might have been been going into the kitchen and got disturbed!

On Day 22 we found them sat on a blanket in the kitchen with some marshmallows. We assumed they were to make the boys some North Pole Cereal!

On Day 23 we found a sign from the elves saying open me! When we opened up the unit we found they had been very naughty and were playing with wires for our phone chargers!

And so finally on Day 24 the pesky pair had decided to have one more night of fun and they took Freddie's scooter for a ride around the lounge! They also left a little message for the boys saying how much they had enjoyed themselves!

I hope you have enjoyed reading about the antics of Rhul and Elfis! I cannot wait to start planning all their tricks for next year! 

Blogmas Day Twenty Four

And so it is officially the last day of Blogmas! Although we do actually have an extra post going up tomorrow with the last few days of antics from the Elves!

What a brilliant few weeks of posting it has been! I won't lie and say its been easy trying to get a post up every day! Its been a lot of hard work and trying to fit blogging in while Freddie is asleep at night and while he has been in playgroup along with doing everything else I need to do in the house to get ready for the big man in red coming tonight!

Most of my posts have been written at night when Freddie is curled up asleep in bed next to me! A few times he has rolled over and put his head onto my arm while I have been typing!

Next year I aim to be even more prepared for Blogmas than I was this year! So for now I will leave it here and say Thanks for reading my daily ramblings, I hope you have enjoyed elf watch to see what Rhul and Elfis have been up to! Here's to a brilliant Christmas for everyone and an even more brilliant 2019!

Living Arrows 2018 52/53

Welcome back to another week of Living Arrows hosted by Donna over at What The Redhead Said. If you are new to this then the name of the linky comes from the poem by Kahlil Gibran "You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth"

Its Christmas Eve and it is also the second to last Living Arrows post of 2018! I feel so proud that I have stuck to this Linky every week! Ok its not always made it up on a Monday but it has always gone up! 

So this week the boys are now on holiday from school and playgroup! James is so exhausted from a busy term at school! He has literally not stopped and has worked so hard this term! Since he started Beavers back in September his confidence has gone through the roof! On a morning at school he will run off with his friends to play and I won't see him again until the TA comes to open the door to let them in!! In the last week of term it was pretty busy! James had his Key Stage One Nativity, a Christmas fun day, the whole school carol service at our local church and also a school talent show! By the end of the week he was exhausted!

Freddie has had a brilliant time at playgroup this term! The two sessions a week have really helped him become more independent and he is so happy to be away from me when he is there! He has made some lovely little friends and from January he will be with the little brother of one of James friends on his two morning sessions! In his last week of term he had a trip with mummy to see Santa at a local shopping centre! We met at his playgroup at just before 9am to get the bus across with some of his little friends! There is a Blogmas post coming up on his reaction! And lets say it was not too good!

 Then on the last day of term he had a Christmas Party with some of his little friends! The playgroup had assigned each child to one of the party slots and Freddie was in the 0830 slot! This was good practice for us for January when he has two 0830 start sessions! He also got picked up by Nana and Gaga on Wednesday as mummy had to be at the church for James school carol service and I didn't want to have to rush down from the church to collect Freddie and then hang around to get James. Freddie also had a party on Thursday morning with Sure Start, His last time going there before he starts his 15 hours!

Blogmas Day Twenty Three

Its the final count down! We have almost reached the finish line!

For today's post I am writing all about my goals for 2019 and how I want to have a better balance between family life and blogging life!

At the start of 2018 I said I was going to try and balance things a bit better, yeah that didn't happen at all!

I didn't want to do any blogging when the kids were awake, That did happen I have been doing the majority of my work on a night or on a day Freddie has been in playgroup. But I have been pushing myself with deadlines! There have been nights when I have still been working at nine or ten o'clock just to get things done as once Freddie is asleep I didn't actually sit down and write till after eight o'clock!

A few times I have had to go into the kitchen with the laptop and shut the baby gate to stop Freddie getting in just so I could finish and post on time for a few things! Needless to say Freddie crying at the gate was not too nice!

From January though the balance will be a lot better as I will have Freddie in playgroup for 15 hours a week including one day from 0830 till 1430 so I will have so much more time to write and plan and focus on this blog becoming more established!

So here's to 2019 being the year I actually enjoy some free time away from the monkeys!

Blogmas Day Twenty Two

And so we are getting into the final few days of Blogmas! And I am pretty impressed that I have managed to do some sort of post for each day!

Today is a recap on Freddie and his sort of Santa issues!

So when we went to the garden centre, he looked at Santa from outside the grotto, He didn't cry but he was more interested in what was happening outside aka the stuffed animals!

So when we saw there was a trip from playgroup to a local shopping centre to visit Santa mummy decided to go!

We dropped James off at school then got the bus into town and then the shuttle bus across to the shopping centre where we met up with the rest of the playgroup. There are four settings for his playgroup so there was a lot of kids there that Freddie didn't know, but he knew all the staff! He was especially pleased to see his old key worker who has moved to one of the other settings this year!

All while we were queuing Freddie was a little angel. He was in his buggy, but he was loving all the Christmas decorations!

That all changed once we got to the front of the queue, as we were met by one of Santa's elves he burst into tears and didn't stop! Not even once we were in to see Santa! The only way mummy could get him to calm down was to put Peppa pig onto YouTube! That calmed him right down and he was able to say dinosaur and ninky nonk when Santa asked what he would like for Christmas!

Hopefully next year once he is 4 he might be a bit better although its taken James till he was 6 to stop being scared!

Here is Freddie before going into the grotto!