So long Christmas!

 Well folks, that's it. It's all over for another year. I hope you all had a lovely Christmas with family and friends and you're not still trying to digest Christmas dinner!!
We had a quiet Christmas this year. I don't know about you guys but in our house there is always the annual row on Christmas morning that gets the day started nicely.....Not! Nothing like telling someone to go and *bleep* to get you in the festive spirit ha ha. All joking aside, its a time of year when emotions are high, especially if you are missing a loved one. In my experience, the different emotions individuals feel at Christmas can make it a very interesting Christmas indeed. Anyone who was missing someone at their Christmas table this year can probably relate to what I'm saying. If you know nothing of this...then I'm coming to your house next year for dinner!! hee hee

With Christmas behind us, its time to focus on New Years celebrations. What does New Years mean for you? A lot of people look to New Years, as a time to set goals for the year ahead. Others celebrate the fact that they are leaving the previous year behind them. I think I'm always doing a bit of both. I feel like we had a good year this year. Yeah, it had it's moments, but all in all, it wasn't bad. Next year we have a lot to look forward too. The biggest event being that we have a new baby on the way! After 6.5 years, I feel like I'm doing it for the first time. They say you never forget how to ride a bike but I'm not sure the same goes for labor and birth. I find myself asking a lot of questions of friends who have recently had children because I find it hard to remember. I will do a couple of blog posts on pregnancy and birthing but I don't want to let babies take over the blog! lol

The big questions everyone is asking at the moment " What are you doing for New Years Eve". God forbid anyone should not have a party to attend or a hot date! This is usually me, I fall asleep before the clock strikes 12 and I miss out on all the fun. To be honest, Ive done the New Years Eve night out for years and I know I'm not missing much. It's always a bit of a let down, truth be told. This year, will be different though...Myself, my hubby and my little girl are heading to Austria for a couple of days. My husband is a singer and normally we don't see each other for New Years as it is his busiest night in the year. This year, he is singing with SMILE band from Germany and they are gigging at the 5*Interalpen Hotel in Tyrol, Austria. As part of the package, family get to join the band members for the nights celebrations. I'm very much looking forward to thins and I'm sure I will be able to keep my eyes open past 12 o clock this year.!!

When I am back, I will do a little review of the hotel ....in the meantime, here are a few pictures to keep you going.

Dreamy or what!

On that note.... Au revoir mes amis


Kel x

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas !

6 sleeps to the big day !

Listening to me, you would think I was a Christmas fanatic, even more so if you seen how I 'christmassed' the office. In reality I'm more of a bah humbug.....shhh, don't tell anyone, I'm pretending to love Christmas!

Just kidding, I don't totally hate Christmas, there are certain elements I love about it, such as the food, the enormous amounts of chocolate that fill the house and the company of family and friends. When the dinner has been eaten and I have a selection box close by, there is nothing I love more then chilling out and watching a classic Christmas movie. I was going to list my top ten but I had too many favourites to choose from, so here are my top 15 Christmas movies:

1. It's a wonderful life.
2. Elf
3. Trading places
4. Miracle on 34th street.
5. Gremlins.
6. Bad Santa
7. Polar Express
8. National lampoons Christmas Vacation.
9. Showgirls
10. Home Alone
11. Santa Claus the movie.
12. Meet me in St. Louis.
13. Scrooge
14. The nightmare before Christmas
15. Arthur Christmas.

Nollaig shona daoibh  mo Chairde

Kel x

#SBBC Day 15, Eye Candy

 

This blog post does not require words. We just all need to sit back and enjoy the beauty of the male form.

As my mother would say "This is a job for mama"

 


Ok...back to work ladies!!!

Kel x

#SBBC Day 14, A post you are proudest of

I'm such a cheat! I'm totally flunked on keeping up with the September blog challenge. I've missed at least a week now but here I am desperately trying to catch up. I really do want to finish this spurt of blogging on the high that I started with. So listen to Bryan Adam s and 'Please forgive me'

As I have not been blogging for that long I don't have 1 post yet that I am most proud of. Its work in progress Ladies and Gentlemen.

Kel x

#SBBC Day 13, A Craft Project

Good morning,

I'm over the worst of the flu. It seriously took me 3 weeks. But I'm here, I'm alive bla bla bla
As I'm not an artsy fartsy kind of person who knocks up little craft projects at the weekend I thought I would find this post really difficult to write. Then I thought, ok, what have I ever created, maybe a college assignment or something. Eureka! My thesis, I 'crafted' that so to speak and it is something I am very proud of. So I started writing a post about my thesis but something was missing.

Nah. I decided... it just wasn't good enough....something else I've created, something really really special. Bang!
What could be more special then the fact that I have 'crafted' one of the most beautiful little people in this world.

So Saian, SBBC Day 13, A craft project, goes to you.

Kel x

#SBBC Day 12, Life Advice

*Sourced from poemhunter.com

Advice for Life
-Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
-In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
-A place for everything, everything in its place.
-A small leak can sink a great ship.
-All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
-An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
-Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
-Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
-Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
-By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
-Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
-Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
-Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
-Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
-Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
-Energy and persistence conquer all things.
-Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
-Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
-Fatigue is the best pillow.
-God helps those who help themselves.
-Half a truth is often a great lie.
-He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.
-He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
-Honesty is the best policy.
-How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
-I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
-I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
-I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
-If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
-If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
-If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
-If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.
-If you would like to know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
-It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
-It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
-Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
-Lost time is never found again.

-Benjamin Franklin-

#SBBC Day11, How Did You Get Your Blog Name

Hump day....and I'm struggling to get over it. I have the flu and everything seems like the pits! Im going keep this one short and sweet.

Where did I get my blog name from?

Simples.... Its a play on words. A play on my surname to be exact. My name is Kelly Petit. Petit meaning 'small' in French. This is just a little blog that I started so it seemed apt to name it, my little blog. MON petit BLOG. Clever eh!!

Kel x