December Daily : Day 22 - 28

Phew all that preparing and I cannot believe that Christmas is over and New Year is just a day away - where has the last year gone??

Well I have to admit it I have fully enjoyed December Daily and Project Life and l'm looking forward to scrapping a new project for next year.

 

The run upto Christmas this year has been energetic and fun.

 

 

 

• Monday 23rd  - Tom and I spend the morning at the cinema in the city watching Turbo. The cinema was empty with just us and one other family. We spend the rest of the time last minute Christmas shopping before meeting Phil after work.
• Tuesday 24th & Christmas Eve - We visit great gran and head out to the local pub for brunch. Such a nice way to start the day. We pack our clothes before travelling to my sisters. My sister has cooked us a lovely tea before the Christmas Elves drop off an early present for Tom, new PJ's and a Book to read. We shower and then a couple more Christmas stories by the fire. We prepare Sherry (Jack Daniels) Mince Pie, Reindeer Dust and a Carrot all ready for Santa. Tom manages to wake 6 times during the night, but luckily doesn't get up before 7.30am. 
• Wednesday 25th & Christmas Day - Tom is so excited that he rushed down the stairs and takes a breath when he sees all the lovely presents under the tree. My sister is up preparing dinner already. Tom is amazing and takes his time opening his presents until my other sister Clare and hubby Matt arrives to open more presents. Its a shame that dad is not around to share in this with us today, but enjoy Skyping him to wish Merry Christmas instead. Clare and Matt leave and we enjoy a very yummy dinner with all the trimmings. Tom loves crackers and this year is it racing Santa's, which is good fun. After lunch we settle down to watch the lovely movie the Polar Express. We play games with Tom and enjoy a buffet tea. Somewhere in between the movie and tea Santa returns to leave Tom another Present, which he was very grateful for and said made his Christmas fantastic!!.  

 

This photo of tom is one of my favourite of the day and is taken on my camera phone.

 

• Thursday 26th Boxing Day -  We travel back to Nottingham to enjoy the day with Phils family. Its great to see the two cousins soo excited about opening their presents. We had another fun day.

 

 

 Friday 27th - With Phil back at work, I meet with friends to take our kids to Rollerworld and after to Markeaton Park in Derby. The kids lovely the roller skating, something we hadn't tried before and great to wear them out.

 

Saturday 28th - With Phil still at work, Tom and me stay in our Pjs and relax. Tom plays with his toys while I do some housework and catch up with Project Life and Scrapbooking. When Phil gets home we relax with chocolate and watch Arthur Christmas.

Useful facts of the week.....My week goes from Monday to Sunday (22nd December - 28th December 2013). I am using a combination of Camera Phone and Camera Canon Isis Photos.

• Tesco v Home Printing Photos.
• I am using Project Life Album by Becky Higgins and Page Protectors A
• I will be posting a link on The Mom Creative website
• I will be posting a link on Ali Edwards Website
• The December 3x4 cards are from Simple Stories December Documented.

I am continuing the December Daily through to the 31st December, so please return to read about our last few days. I intend to include a couple of extra pages to hold Christmas paper, tags, a couple more photos and a list of Toms many Christmas Presents.

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Project Life 2013: Week 47 & Week 48

Week 47

Page 1 - Its start to feel a lot like winter with some of the first frost on the ground and having to scrap the car, brrrrrr. Phil and Tom head into the city for the turn on of the Christmas lights. Tom has worked hard all week preparing his Egyptian costume for school. he looks the part.

 

Page 2 - Friday night is for chilling so Phil enjoys a BIG pizza from Morrisons for tea. Saturday Tom is out with his friend Frankie's for his birthday. They watch Nottingham Forest play football and win. Phil and I enjoy a day in the city xmas shopping. Nigel comes up to visit and on Sunday we head to Sherwood Pines to enjoy a day watching the Dukeries Rally. Its lovely in the forest with the colours of the late Autumn.

 

 

Week 48

 

See my write up for Week 48 HERE.

Useful facts of the week.....My two week goes from Monday to Sunday (18th November - 1st December 2013).
I am using a combination of Camera Phone and Canon Isis Photos.

• Tesco v Home Printing Photos.
• I am using Project Life Album by Becky Higgins and Page Protectors A
• I will be posting a link on The Mom Creative website
• I will be posting a link on Ali Edwards Website
• The December 3x4 cards are from Simple Stories December Documented.
 

Thanks for looking, please leave me a comment and let me know what you think.  x

Project Life 2013: Week 45 & Week 46

Week 45

 

 

 

Page 1 - I love November 5th and firework night. We visit the Papplework fireworks with friends Karen and Charlotte, we love the smell and colours of the fab fireworks. It was a lovely display as usual. Now we can start planning for Christmas.

 

 

Page 2 - Saturday we visit great gran before heading down to our friend Pams house for tea & fun. We love to see the boys playing together - tonight its all about play fighting. Sunday is a lovely summy autumn day so we visit Salcey Forest for a walk and a bit of geocaching.

 

 

Week 46

 

Page 1- Its a busy week at work. Its Children in Need week so there is lot of fun rasing at school. We get to meet Toms school teacher at Parents Evening. On the way out of school Tom is proud to show us his work on display in the entrance hall. Thursday is the open evening at John Lewis for the staff to Christmas Shop. Tom spots Santa from half-way across the store, He shouts 'SANTA' then pulls me across to meet him - MAGIC.

 

 Page 2 - The weekend is fab I spend it with some girl friends. Saturday we head over to York for some xmas shopping before travelling further onto Whitby where we enjoy an evening of tea and drinks. Sunday we travel home by Robin Hoods bay and Scarborough. Phil and Tom enjoy a bike ride to Newstead Abbey on Sunday.

 

 

 

Useful facts of the week.....My two weeks goes from Monday to Sunday (4th November - 17th November 2013). I am using a combination of Camera Phone and Canon Isis Photos.

• Tesco v Home Printing Photos.
• I am using Project Life Album by Becky Higgins and Page Protectors A
• I will be posting a link on The Mom Creative website

 

Thanks for looking, please leave me a comment and let me know what you think.  x

 

Project Life 2013: Week 43 & Week 44

Week 43

Its October Half Term and its an action packed week starting with travelling home from the Lake District.

 

Page 1:

• Monday We visit my Aunty in Kendal before heading to Blackpool. We enjoy a lovely fish and chip tea in Bispham and walk back to the tower at night looking at all the beautiful lights. We had parked near the tower, so before setting off for home we travel the last set of lights back to the Pleasure Beach in the car. They lights are truly fantastic. 

 

Page 2

• Tuesday is a day of rest after all the travelling so we watch a movie and enjoying chilling out.
• Wednesday Tom spends the afternoon at Granny and Grandad Moore's house while we enjoy a leisurely walk around the Lambley Dumblies and introduce our friends into Geocaching.
• Thursday Phil is back at work so Tom and I play games at home before heading to the local park for Tom to play on his scooter.
• Friday Is shopping in Nottingham, and Tom gets to buy his own Ukulele. They are holding fun running competitions in the Market Square which Tom loves, and there are lots of giggles.
• Saturday is enjoying Halloween at a local club with friends.
• Sunday Phil travels over to Derby with Tom for more fun on his scooter and a unsuccessful geocaching day while I catch up with a little bit of work and scrapbooking.

 

One of my favourite pictures of the year is of Tom laughing away at home = Priceless.

 

 



 Week 44

 

 

Page 1 - Back to school is back to normality with afterschool clubs and homework. Its also great grans birthday, which Tom makes a fab birthday card for.

 

Page 2 - The weekend is a bit chilly but nice and sunny. On Saturday I hold a Phoenix Card Trading party with Liz before going to visit Great Gran in hospital. Sunday we head out for a walk in Rufford Park. Tom enjoys taking part in the fun Halloween Trail with chocolate at the end as a price. We stay for Bruch before going to see Great Gran in hospital. She is pleased to see  Tom and us.

 

Useful facts of the week.....My two weeks goes from Monday to Sunday (21st October - 3rd November 2013).

I am using a combination of Camera Phone and Canon Isis Photos.

• Tesco v Home Printing Photos.
• I am using Project Life Album by Becky Higgins and Page Protectors A
• I will be posting a link on The Mom Creative website

Thanks for looking, please leave me a comment and let me know what you think.  x

 

Project Life 2013: Week 41 & Week 42

More catching up on Project Life today.....

Week 41

Week 42

With the start of the October Half Term holidays its a bit wet but that didn't stop us traveling up to the Lake District for a couple of days. Saturday we visited Bowness on Windermere and walked 3.5 miles up Brant Fell followed by Coffee. Sunday we visited the National Trust property Wray Castle A surprising fun day with a pretty castle and some geocaching in-between the rain. Afterwards we travelled upto Grassmere for some traditional ginger and a coffee. Tom loved his very yummy ice cream. We are looking forward to visiting family and Blackpool tomorrow. x

Useful facts of the week.....My week goes from Monday to Sunday (14th October - 20th October 2013).

I am using a combination of Camera Phone and Canon Isis Photos.

• Tesco v Home Printing Photos.
• I am using Project Life Album by Becky Higgins and Page Protectors A
• I will be posting a link on The Mom Creative website

Thanks for looking, please leave me a comment and let me know what you think.  x

December Daily : Day 16 - 21

All the preparations and Christmas is over - now roll on 2014.
We've had a chill out day today - is it wrong to say i'm still in my PJ's??

And so to catch up.... I'm over a week behind in December Daily and still 4-5 weeks in Project Life.

For my December Daily I've used post-it notes as reminders for the blank days. This has helped loads.

The finished week .....

 

Saturday 21st - Last minute shopping before heading down to our friend's house. We enjoy tea with the family before watching the final of Strictly Come Dancing, then watched a Christmas Movie

 

Sunday 22nd  - After a lovely breakfast and a mixture of weather the boys were lucky and managed to play outside. We chilled and enjoyed mince pies and coffee and then more movies. After driving back to Nottingham, I caught up with my work colleagues for our Christmas meal.

 

Useful facts of the week.....My finished week goes from Monday to Sunday (16th December - 22nd December 2013).

• I am using a combination of Camera Phone and Canon Isis Photos.

• Tesco v Home Printing Photos.
• I am using Project Life Album by Becky Higgins and Page Protectors A
• I will be posting a link on Ali Edwards Website
• The December 3x4 cards are from Simple Stories December Documented.

 

Thanks for looking, please leave me a comment and let me know what you think. x

December Daily : Day 13 - 15

I am loving the December Daily project this year ... and scarily we are half way through December already...... with only 10 sleeps to go to Santa arrives!!!

 

Friday 13th - Phil wore his Christmas Jumper to work today. After School Tom enjoyed the Applegrath Zone Christmas Party. Food, Music and Reindeer Food. To start the weekend off we also watch Elf on DVD. Tom laughed from start to finish, with his favourite part when Elf got stuck in the rotating doors.

 

Saturday 14th - Hairdressers for me while the boys chill at home. We manage some Christmas shopping, before heading out to the Harvester at WIlford for tea to celebrate Grandad Geoff's birthday. Its great meeting up with the family, and I love it when Tom and Grace laugh together.

 

Sunday 15th - One tradition which Phil and I have luckily always manage is to enjoy Leamington Spa's Sunday Christmas Market. They close the main road off to traffic and there are some fab stalls. We even managed it in the snow one year. The last couple of years we've joined the tradition with celebrating mums birthday after she died 2 years ago. Its hard and I miss her loads and loads, but its lovely time to reflect, and I know she would love the fact that we meet with her brother to remember.

 

2009 - Tom aged 4 - we always helped granny blow out her birthday candles.

 2010 - Tom aged 5 - one of my favourite pictures.

Useful facts of the week.....My finished week goes from Monday to Sunday (9th December - 15th December 2013).

• I am using a combination of Camera Phone and Canon Isis Photos.

• Tesco v Home Printing Photos.
• I am using Project Life Album by Becky Higgins and Page Protectors A
• I will be posting a link on Ali Edwards Website
• The December 3x4 cards are from Simple Stories December Documented.

 

Thanks for looking, please leave me a comment and let me know what you think. 

I will update with better photos when it is daylight again!! x