‘The smallest things brought so much joy’
Josie Dom, 51, is a children’s author and lives in Essex with her 16-year-old son and 14-year-old daughter.
Christmases as a child for me were steeped in family traditions. My mum bought decorations for me and my brother Karl, now 52, to hang on the tree – mine were a little elf with a bauble head, and another in a silver ring. I still have them now.
Instead of stockings, Mum gave us pillowcases – but to slow us down on Christmas mornings when we’d rip open our presents with glee, Nan used to