Friday 28 December 2012

shutting the shop...

aloha old friends!
well I have some really important, and I guess sad, news for you. When I started my blog, I was a bit of a lost sheep. I wasn't too sure where I was going with it, or even really how to run it. Now that I've gotten my head around it, I've realised that all the cack I'd written whilst trying to figure myself out has really limited me in what I can write now. It all seems a bit childish and immature, and just not what I want it to be. I've sorted out where I want my little slice of the internet to be heading, and what I want to write about. I'd considered deleting past posts and going from there, but then I thought about how I would of lost previous things that had helped me, and it made me sad to think about doing so. So instead I thought I'd start anew. In the new year I will be launching my new blog, a fresh start. And that one won't be filled with poor posts that are irrelavent to my readers. I won't be deleting anything of this blog, it will just sit as a reminder of how I started. Once I have everything sorted and a new blog, I'll post all the details here. I hope you all follow me on this new adventure! Just remember, I haven't been forgetting you, I've been working on getting you a better experiance. I can't wait to speak to you all in the new year, and I hope you had a fab Christmas!
Talk to you soon!
bye!
Abbie!
xxx

Tuesday 4 December 2012

Christmas traditions!

Can you believe it's December already?! I'm struggling to get my head round it! With only 22 days left until Christmas, I think that my blog will mostly consist of Christmas posts for a little while...I hope you don't mind!


16198_499426090078379_283252301_n_largeI thought I'd start off with a little post about Christmas traditions. I think when I was younger, I had a lot more, but I'm happily expanding them too!

1. Piling the presents

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I am ALWAYS the first person in the house up, and I'm 'banned' from waking anyone up before 8. That means I have 2 and a half hours to kill before getting up, so to take up some of that time, I go downstairs, to all the presents, and put them in piles in front of the sofa for each person. Then, when they come down, they find their pile and sit with it! 

2. After dinner games

This may not exactly count as a tradition, but every Christmas after dinner, we play things like cluedo, monopoly, some card game I always forget the name of, and whatever extra game my mums bought that year. 

3. Playing Just Dance

My mums got in to the habit of buying me the newest Just Dance EVERY Christmas. I've never had to buy any of them, because I just have to wait and get it. So that means that every evening, we push the sofa back and dance off alllllllll the chocolate. 

4. Reading

Not just any book...'The night before Christmas'. Every year just before bed I read this (how sad does that sound?) But it just reminds me of the fact that it's Christmas day. 

5. Snow walks
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This is quite a new one really, but every afternoon we take my 2 dogs for a walk over the snowy hills whilst sniffling from the cold!

6. Stocking delivery

Oh dear, now this will sound a bit of an odd one. My friend actually started this tradition with me a little while back. She knocks on my door every year late on Christmas Eve. I open the door to see her dressed as an elf, my other friend dressed as Santa, and Santa's dog dressed as a reindeer, then I get given a nice little stocking, a kiss on the cheek and then they leave. It's a bit odd, but I go with it because it's nice and pretty sweet.

7. Ornaments
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Me and my brother have made this little tradition where every year, one of the presents we get for each other is some sort of tree decoration... I'm looking forward to when I move out one day, having them all on my tree so I can remember what a great brother I have :)

I think that's about it! Some of them you may not think really count as Christmas traditions, but they do to me! I'm glad I have them, because they make the day that bit more special!
Do you have any special Christmas traditions? Do we share any?

Speak to you soon!
Bye!
                                   Abbie
                                    xxx

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