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Making memories with Mattel | Family games night
If you don't already have a family game night tradition, I encourage you to start one. These are precious memories that the kids will remember and pass along to their kids one day.
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Starting new traditions: The Night Before Christmas Box
TweetThe night before Christmas or Christmas eve, whatever you prefer to call it has always been a special one in our family. Growing up my Mom did a movie night, we’d watch Little Woman while wearing our new Christmas PJ’s and eating junk food and chatting about the reason we celebrated Christmas. Over the years this tradition has changed. We no longer live under her roof, have our own families and rather do a Christmas Eve dinner with our extended family. The evening is always filled with amazing food, lots of laughter and listening to Hugo tell the kids the Christmas story and also lots of pictures. It’s a special…
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Ice Galaxy, the coolest place in the universe
TweetLast night the Thomas gang was invited to attend the opening of the Ice Galaxy at Canal Walk. This is something Danny has been wanting to do for so long, but we’ve never really found the time or energy to take him (yes, bad parents). And since the boys have been more challenging of late we decided not to mention anything to them about this, if their behaviour was great over the last week then we would attend but if not I would happily have declined. Surprise surprise and they were relatively well behaved so off we went. Danny walked in and completely flipped out, he was beyond excited to…
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Countdown to Christmas has begun
TweetIf you don’t know by now then let me enlighten you, the holiday season is OFFICIALLY here! Last weekend we finally put up our Christmas tree and started getting into the festive swing, discussing plans, sharing our prezzie wish list and spending time as a family together (love tank full, the older I get the more my love language has evolved, I still do love a spoil every so often but more importantly I adore quality time). So in kicking off this festive cheer I thought I’d share a few Christmas traditions I had while growing up and what we do with our boys, or what we are trying to…
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The not so festive season
Tweet For many the festive season is a joyous time; it’s a time for big family gatherings, family lunches, late nights, lots of travel and daily outings and inevitably way too much spending. But then there are the others, the people who dread this time of the year. Growing up we went through different stages, when life was good it was really good but when things went bad it was hard and many of us know someone like this. As most know, I love Christmas and the festive season. I love being in my home, spending time with my family and making memories but at one stage in my life…
