A Juggling Mum

Merry Christmas from my family to yours!

Our annual Family Christmas Party was held on Sunday and it was so much fun! Now that we are all getting older, getting married, having families and adding partners to the group, it is getting harder and harder to come together on Christmas Day. So we organise a day before Christmas to all get together, have Christmas lunch and exchange presents and of course dress up. We keep our dress ups a secret until the day to make it more interesting!

This year Rob, the kids and I dress up as a Nativity Scene. I was Mary (of course…lol) Rob was Joseph, Chloe, Riley and Clare were the 3 Wise Men, Sophie was Baby Jesus and Caitlin was the angel. Here’s a photo:

Other family members came dressed as Christmas trees, presents, Santa, a candle, a Christmas shopper, and the Little Drummer Boy!

It’s getting harder and harder to come up with something new and different each year, so I’m going to have to put my thinking cap on now in preparation for next Christmas

My little cousin checking out her stash of eggs

Easter Sunday in my house was a little different this year. My four eldest kids wanted to have a sleep over at my parents house this weekend and the only day that suited everyone was on Saturday night. So I woke up on Sunday morning with only my baby and my partner in the house.

It was very odd to wake up on Sunday morning and not do the whole Easter Bunny thing. The Easter bunny still visited here, but he/she (does any body know the Easter bunny’s gender?) was able to sneak in quietly in the morning and place chocolate eggs in the kids baskets without fearing that the precious sleeping children would wake at any moment.

It was however lovely to get out of bed and not have to get five kids fed, dressed and ready for the day. I leisurely fed the baby, some some breakfast, had a shower, got me and the baby dressed, decorate a chocolate cake, packed some things to take to my parents house and even managed to check my emails. It was a lovely Easter morning for me!.

Around 11am my partner, baby and I walked up to my parents (they live just up the road) where my family were gathering for Easter lunch.

The kids started the celebrations by having an Easter egg hunt in the back yard. This year they were hunting for chocolate eggs and plastic eggs filled with small eggs and a special Easter message. This is my favourite part of Easter. I love watching the kids hunting for eggs and seeing how excited they get when they find one.

After the egg hunt we exchanged Easter eggs, and all ended up with way to much chocolate to take home.

Lunch followed the exchange of eggs. Unlike Christmas Day we don’t really have a traditional Easter lunch, we all just bring over what ever we all feel like eating on the day. This year my Dad cooked chicken wings and sausages on the barbecue and we had some salads with them.

After lunch we got to sit around and relax and talk and eat chocolate eggs. The kids spent the afternoon playing the PS2 and making up Easter related games in the back yard.

We had hot cross buns for afternoon tea and sat around talking until dinner time, which was left overs from our lunch. Because I had made an Easter cake we all forced a small piece down before we all packed up our stuff and headed home.

We came home and the kids went straight to their bedrooms to see what the Easter bunny had left for them, thankfully I had told them that they were not to eat another single egg and we managed to get them all into bed. But within twenty minutes both Caitlin and Clare had thrown up. Thankfully both felt much better once they had vomited and we had a quiet night. I think they learnt their lesson because today they really didn’t eat much chocolate at all.

Can you believe that it’s almost Christmas already!!!

This is our last Christmas meme for the year, so I am going to take this opportunity to thank those who participated in the meme and to wish you all a very merry Christmas!

This week I’m going to tell you about a great website that I found full of printable fun for the kids. It’s called Print Activities and it’s full of printable word searches, dot to dots, colouring pages and mazes for the kids to print up and do.

Now it is your turn:

Can you believe that it’s almost Christmas already!!!

This is our last Christmas meme for the year, so I am going to take this opportunity to thank those who participated in the meme and to wish you all a very merry Christmas!

This week I’m going to tell you about a great website that I found full of printable fun for the kids. It’s called Print Activities and it’s full of printable word searches, dot to dots, colouring pages and mazes for the kids to print up and do.

Now it is your turn:

Can you believe that it’s almost Christmas already!!!

This is our last Christmas meme for the year, so I am going to take this opportunity to thank those who participated in the meme and to wish you all a very merry Christmas!

This week I’m going to tell you about a great website that I found full of printable fun for the kids. It’s called Print Activities and it’s full of printable word searches, dot to dots, colouring pages and mazes for the kids to print up and do.

Now it is your turn: