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How We Planned our Amazing DIY Christmas Trip to Lapland

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Lapland has always been on my travel dream list, even more so since having children but as we all know, having young children costs… a lot! And even though we had talked about making this trip happen years ago, we couldn’t ever afford to. This year, however, I decided we just had to go what with our eldest turning 11. So I carefully (and secretly) saved up and announced to my husband in September that life is too short and that we needed to organise a surprise Christmas trip to Lapland for the boys. He may have reluctantly agreed at the start but as soon as he started researching everything he was completely invested and between us we worked hard to make our DIY Lapland trip happen…

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