Today’s Yesterday’s Twelve Days of Christmas prompt: November 30: Holiday Bucket List
Each year I always vow to do seasonal activities but something, anything always gets in the way. My life is a great huge cycle of shoulda, coulda, woulda and this year I vowed to say yes a tad more, get out a bit more and take advantage of things.
Working every Sunday has put a time constraint on what I do. Saturdays are usually a whirlwind of The Bee related activities, catching up on a week of neglected household chores and just enjoying not working. In a few weeks I will be off from the side gig for a while (yay for time, so-so for wallet) and will use those extra Sunday hours to catch up with the things that only seem to be available on the weekend.
Holiday Bucket List for 2011
Decorate my house.
I’m not a big fan of decorations. They are quite the pain in the ass. Digging them out from whatever place I stored them, unwrapping them, beginning to place them and then realizing that I have to move stuff around the house in order to fit them…Bah! This year I plan to do a few holiday decorations. I found a few things on Pinterest that I wanted to try.
My family does a Twelve Days of Christmas thing in which we exchange little gifts. I like these boxes so that I can place small but meaningful items for The Bee and Mom.
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I love these Darth Vader snowflakes. This can also be a cheat decoration, I’ll have winter covered and won’t have to rush to take down the decorations. I think we can make these as we watch Star Wars.
I also want to make gift packages and found this tutorial on Pinterest too.
My mom is one that saves bags and boxes and the like but it seems so wasteful to buy them when I can repurpose some old newspapers.
We are going to take a trip to see the Light Show at Macy’s (formerly Wanamaker’s). Buffy, the kids and I always take a trip down on the train to see the show. For one brief holiday season I used to work in Wanamaker’s as a floater and at one point knew every word to the every song. Fun times.
We also check out Dickens Village and what the heck, get a picture with Santa.
This year we are making cookies, visiting friends and going to go caroling. I am totally going to watch it’s a Wonderful Life a few times and of course, Bad Santa.
I know these items may seem superfluous and silly but for a person like me, who allows herself to let anything become an excuse, I am excited to get out and going and sharing the holiday with my kid, my guy and my family.
What’s on your list?
Working a Fett,
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Barbara from A Life in Balance (she was a guest blogger earlier this year!) put together a special list of posts to highlight the upcoming holiday. Each day from November 28th to December 9th, bloggers are invited to share special holiday themed topics. Please feel free to link up or visit the blogs of all of the participants.
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