Two weeks until Christmas

It’s actually less than two weeks until Christmas and I am so unorganised this year. The Christmas tree is still sitting in a box in the cupboard, I’ve listened to no Christmas carols and I’ve bought all of one Christmas present. My husband and I haven’t even watched Love Actually yet. I’m not sure what’s going on. We usually get …

Trash or Treasure?

The other day when I was going through a box of things looking for my high school year book, I discovered a whole heap of trophies I had won when I was doing Tae Kwon Do. I had actually forgotten all about them because I haven’t done Tae Kwon Do in 10+ years. Many of them don’t have much information …

High School Reunion

I went to my 20-year high school reunion on the weekend. I’ve got to say I was a little nervous as I hadn’t seen most of these people since our 10-year reunion. Some of the names that popped up on the Facebook event weren’t even names I remembered! However I did know at least a few people who were going …

Birthday Party Fun

I recently went to a three-year-old’s birthday party and it made me reminisce about the birthday parties I had as a child. You see my dad was all about the party, insisting we have one each year – and we weren’t complaining! Mum was in charge of the food; party pies, sausage rolls, fairy bread and little frankfurters, plus she …

Childhood Christmas Traditions

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve written about my current Christmas traditions, but there was one childhood Christmas tradition that I really want to talk about. It first started when I was in primary school, I can’t remember the exact age I was, but I must have been at least eight. We were having Christmas at one of my aunt’s …