"The skull is nature's sculpture."

Day 19:

one comforting thought during these crazy weeks is the knowledge that as a nation we are all in the same boat. Its been crazy being stuck at home but we're yet to have had a bored day which, when having to entertain a 9-year-old is pretty good going. The self isolation is being made easy with other peoples creative ideas coming our way. A friend sent a pic of a garden ornament she had created so we decided to make one ourselves (I mean what else are we going to do?), plus we had a random badger skull lying about that we could use (we find all sorts).

Get creating people, if nothing else it gets you closer to bedtime quicker.

"Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful."

As we took down the trees and the decorations last week we all felt a little gloomy as the house looks so bare once all the colour and glitter has gone. As we carefully packed away all the tree decorations we have collected over the years it made me realise that we needed the next installment of our Gifts from the Pirates fox hunt. Whenever we've been out shopping on the build up to Christmas and spotted a festive fox we've snapped them up straight away. So here are the sly ornaments that were making our trees look pretty this year...

Nanny and Grandad added an extra fox themed book to Opeie's ever expanding collection which was lovely. I love how family and friends pick up on the little quirks that make our family what it is.

Each year we pick a toy to sit on top of the tree (angels are so last season). We've had Holly from Ben and Holly, Cat in the hat and Miffy and this year foxes made their way to the top of two of our trees.

Nanny and Grandad again turned up a few weeks before Christmas and gave the boys a very cute Fox each that spent the build up to Christmas keeping each other warm on our stairs. It was a lovely little touch to our festive looking home, thank you Nanny Roo.

I'm already looking forward to what foxey treats next year has to offer.