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Hi, good morning. Welcome back to classy classics by Kandis. I hope everything went good last week.

Did you get a chance to read last week’s blog about the hot chocolate and coffee station?

We are for sure enjoying it this week!

Finally, I’ve got some hot chocolate in for the container. It was kind of hard to find this year as I will only buy it from bulk barn because you can get twice as much for the same price and why not use the same container if not a cuter one.

We were going to try to really enjoy the hot chocolate station and just a fun joys of Christmas this year.

HOT CHOCOLATE AND COFFEE STATION!

Everything has been pretty crazy this year and then it happens and didn’t get any easier. Remember in April, it was supposed to just turn around to be joke on us. Happy Fool’s Day. Then it never did, there is so much still up in the air this year. With things not turning around, the world still going crazy and things being deemed non essential at the worst time of year. We did luck out here and nothing has been closed or roped-off or whatever is going on, all of our stores are still open.

This is one of the reasons of why I tried to get all of my Christmas shopping done as early as I could.

This year I am having different thoughts and I feel that we should just try to keep it as simple as we can I am bring back the joy of Christmas.

Working out the list, making sure each kid didn’t have more presents or know one had more stuff! Making sure the tinsell is perfect, trying to make sure everything is just perfect.

As I was making my first round of cookies, stay tuned for that recipe, this year there was so much extra stress added to stuff.

All of a sudden It’s December 1st, I know if I have a lot of stuff done more than what I even give myself credit for I am still just going crazy. With the kids at home all the time, and just the extra stuff happening, I’m not sure exactly how to do Christmas this year.

So, I decided to just take a step back and we’re going to just do a basic Christmas. With not do any Christmas trays this year and not as much to give out, also not doing my Christmas cookie giveaway, I’m trying to figure out how to keep all of my Christmas traditions going but with keeping them going with just the family.

So how am I trying to do Christmas this year?

What I am trying to do to keep Christmas as fun as I can with the kids?

I’m not the best one to always invite the kids to come and help the bigger ones sure get in here and come roll some cookie dough, with the little ones can be harder.

I got all of my Christmas decorations done in November this year of course waiting till after Remembrance Day.

Did you see that blog about?

The holiday prep in the house, I’ll leave the link here.

START TO HOLIDAY PREP!

We had fun the kids had a lot of questions for me on that one. Why am I taking pictures of this why am I taking pictures of that?

My kids have seemed to be harder this year and I think that’s because they have been home you guys since March. I am really enjoying having them here tho, and I’m hoping that they can experience the joy of bringing Christmas into the house!

My son’s birthday was December 4th and with trying to do Christmas and now his birthday cake, which I have never not made my kids a birthday kid.

There is definitely a couple things on my plate to do this week but with having most of Christmas done, why not be able to bring some Christmas spirit and some of the Christmas tradition of his birthday being in December to the house right now.

His birthday I’m sad for him because he just wants to invite a bunch of friends because he doesn’t go to school so, he doesn’t see them as much and I had to explain to him. He really really good at understanding you guys I can not ask for a better kid to understand why he can’t invite his friends that he hasn’t seen since spring time to his birthday party.

I have to be very thankful that he has understood the concept and that he is willing to be okay with it. That’s a hard thing to do for a little boy’s 10th birthday.

So with the signs put up and the tensile hung we still have to give it tree. We haven’t yet because we hadn’t decided if we were going to do a real tree or fake tree.

What do you guys do you do a real tree?

So every year for the last 10 years we have done a real tree. Last year, we did a fake tree because it’s hard for us to get out and get a tree because of my husband’s accident. So we were going to do a real tree this year because we have we didn’t last year and that’s a hard thing to swallow.

However, another thing is is we have a wood stove in our living room and our Christmas tree with really last long it would last maybe 2 weeks, which is fine, but I kind of want a Christmas tree up longer than that, especially this year. Now Christmas is right around the corner anyways!

You guys I just want my Christmas tree and I want it to stay like that without having pine needles spread across my house within one week.

I don’t mind the mess that a real tree makes because it looks so nice. They make everything so nice and Christmassy but thats a bit of work for my Christmas tree to be dead week or two.

I should say that’s a little hard for me to try to do on the year that I’m trying to make Christmas a great traditional simple family fun, love year.

So with most of my stuff done, decorating and gift like that’s all that I have done. You guys don’t get me wrong when I say I’m done because I’m not. But, for the next couple weeks I do get to just hang out enjoy the tensile and enjoy baking cookies with my kids.

We are going to still have lots of cookies in the house this holiday, I’m making my kid his cake.

I started Thursday then, I’ll finish making it on Friday and actually I am making him his own pumpkin pie to.

Pumpkin pie is his favourite he will pick that kind over any other any day of the year. I hope you’re following I have a couple different recipes coming up next week.

On the blog I will have a black forest cake and gingerbread cookie recipes on next week’s blog with maybe . I have too see how the week goes lol.

I hope you enjoyed this week’s blog on just how I’m trying to keep Christmas a little more simple!

Are you doing a smaller Christmas this year or are you trying to are you doing bigger Christmas this year?

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Until next week.

I hope you have a great day, a fun weekend and a productive week.

See you next week. Bye for now.

Hello and good morning!

Welcome back to Classy Classics By Kandis!

How did your morning go?

This week has been just crazy in my house! The kids are all home, and we are trucking along on the remote learning! My house is still standing, I have not pulled out all my hair, plus my dishes are done!

Well at least for now they are haha.

Its funny how the afternoon was used for before whether it is when the older kids were smaller, or when they at school. I don’t know what the year will entail, all I know is that I still need a solid afternoon routine!

I have always been a routine girl, well since I became a full time at home mom, and my routines deffinlty got stronger as we had more kids. There is something about the afternoon that makes the day just go bye fast! I find that the afternoon is a very mixed time, between either getting the other chores done when the littles are napping, or maybe trying to put my feet up.

The afternoon is a time where if I blink my day is done and now im struggling. It is strange to know and see the effects of routines when I had slowed down on them.

I have been redoing my routines, these past weeks! I started with my morning routine, then afternoon, evening then the block system!

Did you catch the morning routine blog?

I will leave a link here if you did not catch it!

A GOOD DAY STARTS WITH A GOOD MORNING ROUTINE!

I find a morning routine is where I needed to start in trying to get my chaos under control! There was a big gap of summer break and the uncertanty of what was happening that made a lot of stress here!

Let me tell you a little bit about my house and why I am on board fully with routines, and why I love them and rely on them!

I am a stay at home mom of 4 kids! 11,9,3 1/2 and 1 1/2 year old! We have decided to keep the older kids home, to do schooling here.

There is just always someone needing something, telling on someone, crumbs EVERYWHERE, and just so much happening. I decided to go full force on routines a couple years ago, it was before we were expecting the 3rd, and now…. I love my routines and I tend to get a little ancy, little stressed and a little stretched when I don’t have my routines happening!

MY AFTERNOON ROUTINE

I try not to have as much on my list for the afternoon!

Well not as many but maybe bigger tasks. My afternoon runs me roughly from 12 to 5 lets say. There isn’t really to much of a time on this because naps are in the afternoon. I LOVE NAP TIME! Thought I should point that out lol.

My routine will be more of:

-lunch

-clean up

-wipe the kitchen

-dishes

-sweep

-kids down for nap

-zone cleaning or to finish a task (there is some stuff that is easier at nap)

-finish schooling

-kids have a afternoon (after school) routine

-prep supper

Then that will kinda be wrapping up the afternoon!

Like I said my afternoon does not include any new tasks. If I am looking to clean the van, or work downstairs ect. Thses are the tasks that can be easier at nap.

Just like in the morning routine, your routine might not look like anything of mine. You may not even have a afternoon routine. Maybe its just a afterschool routine, the routines are there if it is what YOUR house needs.

Do you have a afternoon routine?

What is your afternoon set for?

There is so many versions of a routine the sky is the limit! With a strong morning routine, I find that my afternoon is not as fast paste! With how the house is going with the schooling here I am finding it more important then ever to try to schedual my days to the fullest.

HOW TO CREATE THE ROUTINE

When I start sketching out my afternoon routine it can fall into place easier then the other routines I find as it is almost just the filler time.

I had made my morning routine, then when I did the afternoon, just as the others for about a week I do what I am doing and make a list of what was done in the afternoon. Then I would get a feel for what could or should be done.

With knowing what fits best into my afternoon routine then I could crop one out on paper! I find that a week is a good time frame for it, as a lot of stuff can come up in a week.

So if there is going to be a task that would work better another time, you will see it.

Make your schedual work with you, but be flexable enough to work with the schedual! Make sure you have your time frame out so you know what you are working with.

Don’t worry if your routine is not like other.

OTHERS ARE NOT YOU!

YOU ARE YOU!

YOUR ROUTINE IS YOURS!

Maybe your afternoon routine is to tidy up, nap, shower and get ready to go! Just make sure when you are making the routine you know the time frame to be working in, this is so you don’t over book yourself but, you still are getting what you need done!

More on that statement coming with the block system!

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No matter on the type of routine that you are creating, it is set for what you will need to keep what you need done! does, whether its one of five of them.

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KEEPING CHRISTMAS SIMPLE

AFTERNOON ROUTINE.. DON’T FORGET THE COFFEE!