Santa’s really got his work cut out with my brood...

As I look ahead to Christmas this year, I feel that familiar cocktail of excitement and mild dread. The children are growing up fast now – and who knows how many more years of ‘magic’ we have left? La

From cards to carols, celebrating the festive season when you’ve two lots of family traditions to bolt together isn’t easy…

Our columnist fondly recalls her childhood Christmases – apart from the time the milk ran out!

MAUD had been looking forward to finally getting her decorations out again. And now with a whole afternoon at her disposal she was really going to savour the experience and make it something special.

As my daughter Emma, then two, happily played with her new doll’s house, I snapped a photo and smiled. ‘It was all worth it,’ I said to my husband Mark, then 45, as he yawned and rubbed his eyes. It w