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Do you have a good one in place?
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With November here, and Remembrance Day now over, the Christmas holidays can start. My rule was always that I would never start getting ready for Christmas until after Remembrance Day. Usually, it would be till after my son’s birthday, which is the 4th of Decembe, but this year he said we could do it early and I want Christmas to come. After discussion with the family and deciding that we can decorate early. I don’t usually have Christmas decorations up for his birthday, but why not incorporate Christmas into his 10th birthday?
All of a sudden on Facebook everywhere, I’ve seen everybody with their trees up. This is when I start getting a little antsy for Christmas. So, we then decided that we were going to start. It’s funny because when I start, we don’t start with a tree as a couple reasons for that, we do a real tree. Last year was the first year that we had a fake tree. We are not sure if we are going to do a fake tree or we’re going to go into the real tree again. We always do a real tree. It has become a family tradition that we were trying not to have to break.
So, when it comes to prepping for Christmas, my prepping is a little different. The first thing that I do to prep for Christmas is I make a new Christmas outline book. I did this one a couple years ago and I love it. It totally changed the way that I do Christmas plan and prep.
Everything is in one notebook it’s super easy and it’s just paper I put together. It is just as easy as can be and it’s also as cheap as can be. Both which is perfect for me at this time of year. In my book I have everything in there that I kinda would need to keep me organized through the year.
As you can see, I have everything from where Christmas is going to be, cards, baking down to our budget for everybody! What I have ordered, what needs to be ordered and some gift ideas. There’s also a spot for orders that maybe still need to come in or that I still need to order. I’m not sure how Christmas shopping will go this year. And so, I wanted it done early this year as there may be problems with shipping not fast this year, even issues with just getting gifts from the stores.
So, I went to Amazon to do a Christmas order, one on wish… my first time! We are getting ready to go to the city this weekend, I actually got a babysitter whoop whoop, hubby and myself are going to go hit up a city and try to get as much Christmas shopping as we can done.
Then if I need to place another order, hopefully I will have time to place one more order probably through Amazon because they are the quickest and easiest way to track my orders.
So, after my Christmas book is ready and my nerves get a little easier. Knowing that it’s still just the middle of November and I have lots of time, I then go and started pulling boxes. I have a crawl space upstairs; I am thankfully to have a spot I to put all of my Christmas decorations in to. So, my oldest son and me started pulling boxes, we got to start seeing where stuff was going to go.
I am taking a bit to get my decorating done, I’m really excited this year to get the hot chocolate and coffee station set-up. I think this will be a nicer set up to with the kids being at home. I tend to usually not always like it because then all they want to do is drink hot chocolate, however when it comes to this year and the craziness and all the uncertainty still, I am being more like come on kid if you want hot chocolate, go do some outside chores and come on in and have some hot chocolate. Haha.
I think that’s almost something that I am being more excited about is that my kids are home this year and they get to be here all day to enjoy the Christmas beautifulness. This might make it a little harder to do some of my prep and to keep stuff, I might have to hide them a little more, but I think it’ll be really good for all of us to be home.
With the early Christmas decorations have you started decorating for Christmas yet?
How do you start?
What is your step 1 and what you do for Holiday prep?
Another thing that I do is I do a local cookie giveaway. I used to do Christmas trays all the time, however it got a little hard to give out. So, with that I started doing a fun little Christmas giveaway. With some Christmas questions and just some Christmas fun for the community, fun for a dozen cookies, I still have a couple trays that I do give away, but not like I used to.
With this one of the next things that I do is I’m going to sit down and figure out my Christmas baking what cookies and desserts I need to prep for! Trying to get any of my groceries that are needing to come, with one haul right before Christmas. With this I tend to do too many cookies and I feel like I might have to back it off a little this year with not having as many, gatherings and visitors this Christmas season there is always some staple cookies that needs to be done. And so, no matter what there is lots of cookies and treats in this house for the Christmas season. With that I will be getting a list going and I will of coarse share oh so many yummy Christmas cookie recipes with you.
Do you do Christmas baking?
What is your favourite Christmas cookie?
I usually will make my cookies, decorate them depending on what kind of cookie, get them all completely done then I put them in the freezer. This way when we’re leaving a cookie tray or when the kids needs another round of cookies, we can just pull them out of the freezer and put them into the cookie jar.
As far as our stocking stuffers go, it’s so pricey all the time. I never know what to do, I tend to use the Dollar Tree and dollar stores for that stuff. This year will not be different. I never quite know what to put in the stocking’s and its always staple stuff that I put in so that it’s an easier thing. They always of course of cute little knick-knacks.Every year they do get body wash, new toothbrush, toothpaste, loofah, bubble bath, stuff like that! Bathroom stuff that they don’t always like to share, also my 2 oldest are boy and girl, so being able to give separate items is needed and an easy way to fill some stocking!
Usually, every year I will have my budget completely done before I even start putting an order in, but this year with the uncertainty of it all I really just picked some items, I will do a better layout before I hit the city tho! I am determined to get as much as I can done early like I say this because with my luck I would go to go do my Christmas shopping, and that city would shut down. LOL, this is just my luck of 2020, this is also why I said I wanted to have as much shopping as I could done, as early as I could so that I had time to still go and get what was needed without running around trying to find it and ended up spending a fortune on something that shouldn’t be that much.
It’s going to be such a fun holiday season on the blog. I hope you will join in on the Christmas spirit here. If you are liking holiday blogs, go ahead and give it a like. And make sure that you are signed up to follow the blog by adding an email you will get a notification of when I upload a new blog.
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I hope you will join me, there will be lots of decorating, Christmas baking, Christmas prep, and of course cleaning motivation.
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