If you’re stuck with grinchy teens who are sucking your spirit drier than a festive martini, it’s time to shine a light. Back when my kids were small and relatively cheerful, Christmas would roll around and it would be a delight. They’d start discussing when it was time to put the tree up in early …
Christmas
These mini Christmas puds are a new festive favourite for us. Each December our village has it’s annual Christmas carol night in the hall. It’s an opportunity for the whole community to come together and celebrate the end of the year, and the Christmas season. The night begins with a shared meal. Each family brings …
The middle of a muddy field isn’t where craftspiration usually strikes, but that’s exactly where I found the inspo for these paper Christmas baubles. Let me explain. Each year we often go to the Murrumbateman Field Days. Basically it is a couple of fields covered in tents selling all kinds of farm related stuff. My …
Okay, so these 2023 gift ideas for teen boys are in addition to the gift ideas for teen girls list from earlier in the week. I say this because I really don’t believe there are such things as ‘boys things’ and ‘girls things’. There are just teen things. But I split the lists into gift …
Christmas is getting closer, and my social media feeds are filling up with ideas to make it “Pinterest perfect”. Elf on the shelf, Advent calendars and other Christmas countdowns are popping up everywhere, filled with little (junky) gifts or chocolates for the kids to have every day in the lead-up to the big day. The …
At last, it’s gift ideas for tween boys time! We’ve found gifts to sort the teen girls, teen boys and tween girls and here we are buying for adolescent boys. They are a tough crowd to buy for, let me tell you. If they’re sporty, they’ve already got all the sporting equipment they’ll ever need. …