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New Year... with an empty nest!

Well, as another New Year rolls around, it'll be just Mike and I as all our kids - who are now adults - have lives and will be out celebrating.

Us? We'll most likely be asleep as the bells chime in the New Year with the phone a few inches from my ear in case...

No matter how old they get, I always worry when they're out, especially when I know a good deal of alcohol is going to be involved.

A Dickens of a Christmas dilemma

Since my kids were little, Christmas has been a huge event with no expense spared. With having three of them, in past years our Christmas tree has been almost lifted off the ground by the amount of presents under and around it on Christmas morning, however, this year, out of necessity, we’ve come over all Scrooge-like and decided between us to spend no more than £50 on each other.

If you knew... would you?

Someone asked me recently, “If you knew then what you know now, would you still have had kids?”

It’s a question that I couldn’t answer but it’s bugged me ever since. Would I?

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