It’s the time of the year again when I can’t help but feel festive. We’ve started our Christmas preparations and traditions and it’s safe to say that we are getting exited, especially the little one who is now at an age where she can appreciate the magic of Christmas.
We’ve put our tree up early this year, generally we stick to the 12 days before rule but the excitement got the better of us. For the first time ever we have a real Christmas tree and our house now smells amazingly festive (particularly in the evenings when there’s a distinct aroma of mulled wine along with that woody pine smell)
It would appear that we have bought enough food to survive the apocalypse with cupboards full of Stollen, Panettone, Pandoro, chocolates and gingerbread (along with the obligatory tube of Twiglets). Now all that we have left to do is the present shopping, picking out our favourite photos of the year to gift family members a photo book of their loved ones and gift wrapping those gifts over the next couple of weeks. Until then I’m going to enjoy sitting in the warm glow of the Christmas tree lights with a hot festive tipple.
![[AD] This year has been full of changes, we’ve homeschooled, we’ve worked from home (and still do) and as a result, we have spent more time in the house than we have out. It’s been no surprise that our monthly utility bills have increased over that period.
With our rising bills we wanted to see how easy it would be to reduce our bills and be more in control of our energy usage by switching to a smart home with one of the UKs leading smart home providers @HiveHomeUK. Combined with our Amazon Echo devices we have fully automated the lights in our home with Hive Dimmable Lights. They can be dimmed, set on timer, switched on/off via the app and respond to voice commands through Alexa.
You can find out more ways a smart home with Hive can benefit you in my blog post (link in bio)
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Susan Mann
at 1:14 pmAww that’s lovely x
Sara (@mumturnedmom)
at 6:59 pmLoving the sound of all that yummy food! Definitely festive 🙂