It was still dark outside as I watched my hours of careful wrapping get ripped away in seconds.
But seeing the smiles on my girls’ faces as they pulled their presents from the colourful paper, all the effort had been worth it.
‘Look Mum!’ Kayleigh, 10, said, beaming as she showed me her new clothes, paints and pens.
As a single mum to her and her little sister Sammy, 7, I'd been determined to make Christmas special.
Even with Kayleigh just one year away from senior school, we were still all up at the break of dawn to see if Father Christmas had
