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The Little Lilypad is a lifestyle blog mostly written by a mum to two beautiful, cheeky and entertaining daughters. It is sometimes written by the Man on the Pad or by one of our baby bloggers. Occasionally we accept guest posts too. There is frequently talk of sustainable living, saving money, lifestyle and travel. It is hopefully helpful, sometimes funny and always honest.
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On the sixth day of Christmas .....

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..... my true love gave to me, a Christmas memories post from Richmond Mummy.

When I think back to the Christmasses of my childhood, the memories are always happy ones and always the thing that springs first to mind is of the many, many Christmasses I spent with my Uncle Pat, Aunty Lou and cousins Claire and Steve and Jo.  
 
We would alternate Christmas year-on-year, one year at my Mum and Dad's, with me and my sister enjoying the fact that we didn't have to postpone playing with our newly opened toys until Boxing Day, the next year at my Uncle and Aunt's, who always had the crisps and Quality Street in ample supply.  Essential Christmas snacking.
 
Christmas snacks
 
Wherever we spent Christmas, one thing was a constant, after the Christmas lunch me, my little sister Chrissy and the cousins, would take ourselves upstairs to begin rehearsals for that year's afternoon 'Panto'. And boy did we take it seriously! My most favourite Christmas Panto performance that we put on was a 4-person only cast of The Wizard of Oz, complete with my cousin Steve in the role of the scaredy-cat lion, dressed in my mum's old fox fur coat from the 70s.  It was quite a performance... 

I'm sure all our parents struggled to keep their guffaws under wraps, I'm not sure we were ever the most polished of actors! It's one of the things I most look forward to seeing in my own girls as they grow up - when they start to put on funny little shows and especially at Christmas, I have a feeling if my own attempts of Christmasses past are anything to go by, I think I might be sniggering behind my festive jumper.

Hee hee hee Merry Christmas xoxo
 

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  1. I'm yet to take my kids to a panto.I think the Cbeebies one is there only experience of one.

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  2. That's an amazing tradition - such fabulous fun to be able to tease each other with for the rest of your lives! Think I might get the boys into it. Hope you have a wonderful one this year - it's super that you're passing it on :)

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  3. I can remember putting on a little bit of afternoon entertainment when I was younger too - not sure I was any good either but I had fun dancing and singing around the living room.

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  4. What lovely memories! Loved the panto bit, we did the same on Boxing Day at my grandparents. They did well to keep straight faces! :D

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