Month: December 2011

How to Celebrate New Years Eve with Kids

So. Here we are. New Years Eve. You have downgraded year-on-year from wild parties and Capital city fireworks, to champagne and canapes at home. You no longer celebrate with alpine ski breaks, and there was even one, dismal New Year that saw you force down half a bottle of champagne around 10pm and then collapse in bed, awaiting the early cries of  of the newborn baby. You can’t get a babysitter or a taxi. I am no longer placated with an early night – I want in on the party! Kids have changed the way you celebrate New Year’s Eve. …

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A Boxing Day Tradition: Gingerbread House (and Mini Cooper!)

Boxing Day is traditionally when the Actually Mummy household break into our gingerbread house. Lovingly crafted sometime during December, it takes pride of place on Mummy’s counter, suffering mini-burglaries, and minor structural damage until Boxing Day, when we are officially allowed to demolish it, and demolish it we do! Our gingerbread recipe comes from BBC Good Food, complete with template. It makes perfect gingerbread: firm enough to cope with the house structure and onslaught of decorating by young children; not so hard it breaks your teeth when you try to eat it! Use a template to lay on the rolled-out …

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Christmas Eve is Caption Eve

It may be Christmas Eve, but it is still Saturday, and you know what that means! A photo to caption: On the 24th Day of Christmas Mummy was hunting around for quick and easy recipes and discovered this at I’m Counting UFO’s. I suspect that this is what we will be eating on Boxing Day, when Mummy has no intention of entering the kitchen. Lucky Daddy is good with Tuna! Check it out if you need an easy fix 😉   Linking up here at Mammasaurus!  

Meet me on a Monday

There is a very cool blog over in the States called Never Growing Old. Over there. Java asks questions once a week designed to give us all a little bit more insight into each other’s lives. This week it is about Christmas, so we are joining in to record our Christmas traditions: Questions: 1.Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrapping paper. Colour-coordinated to match the tree! Mummy isn’t good with random colours. 2.Real or artificial tree? Artificial. Real makes too much mess, clogs up the hoover, and has to go to the tip after the holidays. Which in Daddy’s world means …

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Saturday is Mammasaurus Caption Day!

Or #Madcap, as it shall henceforth be known. Caption Saturday is having a theme this week. We got enough pictures of Mammasaurus that we could share them around a little, and together with Here Come the Girls we have secretively created a lovely online gallery of the lovely lady, on her very own blog! Aren’t we clever! Now it’s your turn, to find a caption for this: On the 17th Day of Christmas Kat Tate invited Mummy to share a glass of champagne and reflect on 2011. Always a fan of the popping wine, Mummy readily joined in, and is …

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Funny things kids do at Christmas

Ever wondered what we kids think about Christmas? Of course we want Santa to come, but maybe we want family, lovely food, songs about the baby Jesus? Nope, as far as kids are concerned, this is what Christmas is all about: And I mean ‘everything’ important. There is nothing else. Shallow, aren’t we? Although, before I knew too much about presents, I did learn the Christmas story, all about the baby Jesus, the shepherds, and the kings. I proudly told Mummy and Daddy the facts, and answered their questions. Mummy asked what gifts the kings brought and I firmly announced: …

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A Picture of Me

Many of you know that I write this blog autonomously and that you never see my face on here. I wrote yesterday of how well I am doing at school and this has resulted in calls for me to display my picture. I really prefer not to, but just for today you get to see a real life picture of me… …in the cubist style 😉 Now, on the 9th day of Christmas I visited the very beautiful blog that is Cherry Menlove. This is quite possibly the most gorgeous blog to look at that I have ever seen. I …

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The Things They Teach in School These Days! Wot So Funee

I was having a chat with Mummy the other day about school in the olden days. She laughed when I asked her if they had school when she was young and if she went. I thought it was a pretty reasonable question given how little she knows about the things they teach in school. I am 7 and I already know more than her. This is a synopsis of several post-schoolday interactions we have had over the last few weeks: Mummy: What did you learn today? GG: Oh just Symbolism in Hindu worship…. GG: I was sad today because I …

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Top 5 Christmas Songs

Lets get one thing straight. This is my blog, right? Therefore these are my top 5 Christmas songs. If you don’t like it don’t listen – but these are, in actual real life, the top 5 Christmas songs of all time. That’s my time, right? Merry Christmas Everybody by Slade: Mummy has been struggling to feel the Christmas spirit until now, but this has got her tingling, she says. I think they look weird, and what on earth was the rubbish telly? Did nobody tell them about HD and 3D? However I do have to admit that it is my …

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December: 31 Days of Bloggers!

I finished NaBloPoMo yesterday and went over to Twitter. I remembered how much I liked it. I tweeted a bit. People tweeted me back. Pretty soon I was loving it and stayed way longer than I intended. I linked up my final NaBlo….(oh I can’t even be bothered to type it any more) and for the first time this month I clicked on a link from another blogger rising to the challenge. For.The.First.Time. How rude! Here I am, blithely linking up my posts and not visiting anyone in return. So apparently there is another ‘blog-a-post-a-day’ thingy starting in December. Well not for …

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