Christmas/Festive Family Bucket List

Christmas Day 2017 after spending hours in A&E

This time last year I was heavily pregnant and eagerly awaiting the arrival of our baby boy. So although we did a few things to celebrate Christmas, it was very low key. In fact our Christmas day was spent seeing midwives, doctors and sitting in A&E. So this year I'm excited for the upcoming festive season, especially as our oldest boy Tommy will be 3 this December, he is really starting to take things in and show interest in the magic of Christmas.

3 Generations Of Christmas Eve Babies

Tommy at 3 weeks old 

I'm not writing this post because I feel in any way ungrateful for what I have. I know just how extremely lucky I am!! I'm writing it because I feel the need to share the irony and shear "how is that even possible" situation with you all.

For anyone who knows me well, it's been a bit of a joke with me that I didn't want a baby born in December. My main reasons were, it's always a busy month with Christmas celebrations and all that's involved with that. I also have 2 sisters with December birthdays and when I married, I found myself with a husband and father-in-law who both shared a birthday on the 24th December.

Since being with Keith I've tried to keep Christmas Eve dedicated to his birthday, not easy though when you take everything else into considerations. Anyway, I had no plans of adding a third generation to this list of Christmas Eve birthdays. So much so that I was planning in my head when we would start trying for a family. After we married I wasn't in a rush to start a family as I really wanted time with my new husband, just being the 2 of us.  A risky business when you're already 37. And, I definitely didn't want that December baby and especially not a Christmas Eve baby.

Christmas 2016

It's been a fairly quiet Christmas as we've all been poorly, hence not getting many photos. But here are a few that were taken. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas with family and friends.

Here are the photos we took:

My in-laws home is always decorated beautifully for the Christmas period, so we took the opportunity to take a few photos while visiting before Christmas day.

Gift Idea - Date Night

As promised on a recent YouTube video here is the gift I was most excited about giving this Christmas season. Click here to see my Christmas Gift Tag video.

For the siblings in my family we do a secret Santa to allow us to have a larger budget without breaking the bank. There are 7 siblings, plus partners, so as you can imagine it would get quite costly if we bought gifts for each person.

Christmas Shelf

It's been a while since I decorated our little shelf specific for an occasion. I'd hoped to decorate it for my little boys birthday, but with so much preparation going on it got missed. So instead we have a Christmas/Tommy shelf. Since Tommy was born at the beginning of December I thought I'd decorate it with Christmas items that are focus on my baby boy.