It’s the children’s first Christmas without their mum

Planning to make it as good as it can be has banished my worries about redundancyI absolutely bloody love Christmas. I really do. Presents, pantomimes, tinsel and trees, every ritual fills me with elf-like glee. So people moan about the commercialisation, blah blah blah, but it’s CHRISTMAS!!! Helen loved it even more. Having Millie and Matt allowed us to rekindle childhood delight that had never much dimmed.Even with this backstory, I am shocked when two days before Halloween Matt chirps,