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We are having lots of this around home this week. With all of our Christmas presents, shopping and cooking etc done we are using the time to just chill out together as a family with a bit of work, baking, colouring etc all mixed in together.

We made these cute snowman chocolate chip muffins the other day : ) The muffin tin was just from my local Coles and only cost $5, I think it adds a cute Christmas touch to some ordinary muffins. I kept the decoration really simple, white chocolate buttons and mini M&M’s attached with white chocolate.

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I just wanted to share with you this amazing website- Family Fun It is such a great resource for parents. I have printed off a lot of my Christmas crafts and ideas from this site, there is lots of great stuff and best of all it is free!! Even better : ) It is a great place for extra inspiration and ideas, I love to use resources like this as it keeps ideas fresh. I love the Santa postcard and Christmas wish list printables from this site, very cute and great to keep for when the kids are older.

And just because I can’t have a post without a photo, Flynn discovered his Christmas presents and opened one LOL. …READ MORE

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Yes they were lolly/treat bags, great guess Paulette! I always do these now for birthdays, our Christmas BBQ, Christenings etc. I love to be able to say thanks for our friends and family for making the time and effort to come over and it saves sending out thanks you cards later : ) I generally lay everything out and put the bags together the night before.

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I still love being able to sometimes participate in Mothers Group. Now that I work full time it is a lot harder and I don’t get there as often as I would like and often as I did in the past- but I try !! This week we had a little Christmas Party as it was out last meet before we break for the holiday season. I hosted and we had 3 out of the 4 kids attend. We started the group with something like 8 but other girls have moved away and gone back to work and so we are a little group now! There are two of us girls who are pregnant with baby no 2, one due in March and then me in May so our group will grow again. They have been a great source of support over the last 2 1/2 years.

We are hoping to add to our activity list next year now that work has settled into a routine we will be doing swimming lessons on a Saturday, and Gymbaroo and Playgroup after work. We have come and gone from some of these in past years when it has suited our changing work routines. I think it is great for kids to be able to interact with kids their own age group and to have both free play with them and also structured activities for them to learn and develop. I am looking forward to these activities starting in Term 1.

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This year I decided Flynn was old enough to help make out first Christmas decorations together. We wanted to start this as a family tradition and something we would do together every year. We started really simple this year as I wanted something Flynn could do that was easy as well. First I traced some simple Christmas shapes – bells and baubles onto some white cardstock. Then I let Flynn go crazy with the glitter glue and then crepe paper gluing for the bells. It was great fun, I try and make it a little educational when doing stuff as well as fun- like counting out the crepe psper squares etc.

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Here are some of my recent 365 photos for December. I am so looking forward to do this project again next year it has been such an amazing experience and I am so grateful that I have been able to secure a kit for next year which should be arriving in January.