This year I have tried to make it as magical as possible - for all our sakes. And so have been dragging daddy and Jamie along to as much as possible. This all started with the Lincoln Christmas Market which was held the first weekend of December. Last year it was cancelled for the first time due to the snow and ice that brought most of England to a stand still. I thought it might be nice if we all went on the Thursday night which is know as 'locals night' as the coaches and tourists don't really make the effort until the Friday! We were very lucky to have family who live very near the market (which is held in Lincoln Castle grounds) and so parking was less of a nightmare than it could have been! Although I didn't really spend much money, I really enjoyed it. We lost Nanna a couple of time so we were glad of the mobile phones, but even with that (and the German wine), daddy didn't really like it. He complained that it was too busy. I think for Jamie it was too crowded and too cold; although he loved the bubbles from one of the stalls. He was too young to go on any of the rides and too young to really walk on his own - we could have easily lost him! We had taken him in the pushchair but it is on its way out and not very easy to push about. In the end I spent a lot of time pushing an empty chair and daddy had Jamie on his shoulders. Not sure about next year....
This last weekend we went to see the North Scarle Santa Special (see: www.lincolnmes.org/). We have been to the car boot and been on the miniature trains a few times this year, but at Christmas there are mince pies and Father Christmas sits in his sleigh. When we first got there Jamie did not want to go on either the trains or visit Santa but after watching from the sidelines for a while we managed to go on the trains twice and Jamie also had a quick chat to Santa and was very pleased when he got a present!!
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