Emma, Lee and Poppy arrived about 4.30, they had been to Emilys grave, there was a carol service held in the babies garden for all the babies who lie there. I wanted to go but was not feeling the best, I had been coughing the past few days and the cold would not have helped. Em said she had got so cold that she could not get warm and so she sat in our house for a couple of hours with my "snuggie" wrapped round her drinking a nice hot cup of tea. The service was mercifully short, apparently they only sang Away in a Manger and then gave candles out to all the parents who had lost babies. The garden was full of people, there were not enough candles to go around, obviously more turned up than expected.
Poppy is having a toy kitchen for Christmas, they have been to the toy shop today and she kept going back to the kitchen so they realised she liked it so that is what Santa is bringing for her. Tomorrow they are taking her to the garden centre to see Father Christmas, we popped over there today for lunch, they do a nice carvery, and saw that he has a grotto in the local garden centre, well actually its a shed, but all dressed up for Christmas, he even has an elf outside, rather a tall one admittedly but wearing an elf costume all the same! Father Christmas rings a little bell when he is ready for the next child, and apparently he gives each child lots of time and talks to them nicely. I wonder what Poppy will make of a strange man in a red suit!
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