Thursday Thirteen: Holiday Prep
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I feel like such a Scrooge this year. Our house is the only one on the cul-de-sac that doesn’t have any lights up yet. With temperatures in the 70s and 80s here it STILL doesn’t feel like Christmas is less than three weeks away. My mom got 5″ of snow yesterday. I’m jealous. The kids are starting to ask more pointed questions about Santa this year, filled with comments about what other parents have told their friends. Ahh, the price of growing up.
Anyway, needed to think about these things and do this, so here’s the first 13 things I could think of that will help get our family in the Christmas Spirit.
13 Things To Get Ready For the Holidays
1. Finish coordinating gift lists with DH. Who have we forgotten? Can we avoid duplicates?
2. Hang the lights outside. This is always “fun”. Those “We Install Christmas Lights!” signs are looking pretty tempting!
3. Hang the wreath on the door. DD said she wanted to yesterday, but didn’t.
4. Remove any and all non-essential clutter from the living room so we can…
5. …buy a tree so we can…
6. …decorate it.
7. See if we need any new ornaments. Our Cinnamon Ornaments may need replaced, a bunch had broken last year.
8. Mix up some cookie dough and freeze it so I can bake a dozen when we want ’em.
9. Decide if we’re having Thanksgiving dinner again for Christmas. We usually do.
10. Go Caroling next Saturday with the Cub Scout pack, hopefully it won’t rain this year.
11. Mrs. Santa needs to find some jammies to leave on the kids’ beds.
12. Update my wishlist on Amazon and make DH and the kids update theirs too!
13. Spruce up the dining room table with some more festive decorations.
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Sounds like you’re a bit behind, but that’s okay. If it doesn’t get done, it won’t diminish the important parts of the holiday. Or make your electric bill climb!
Have a good one!
I’ve got all my decorations and my tree up–but I’m WAY behind on shopping. Wah!
Can you really freeze cookie dough and bake it when you need it? I so didn’t know that and definitely will be trying it. The kids whine so when there isn’t any cookies in the cookie jar. Thanks for the tip!
Absolutely, Patti!
Chocolate Chips, Snickerdoodles, and really any drop type cookie all work well if you freeze on a cookie sheet until solid after shaping and then bag in a big ziploc. They last for several months. It’s great, you just pull out a dozen when you want fresh baked cookies without all the work!
You may need to add a minute or two to the baking time, but generally it’s not much longer from frozen.
I tend to use my cookie scoop (looks like a tiny ice cream scooper) to shape mine. That way, they all come out roughly the same size and shape too. I love that all the real clean up is done in one day.
I probably got into the whole holiday season earlier because our weather has been rainy and cold. That always helps.
Our Christmas lights aren’t up yet either. That’s not MY job. LOL.
Happy Holidays.
I’ve been planning the holiday on a countdown by week, as to what I need to do before guests arrive–and got short-circuited by having someone come this weekend. ACK! Must clean guest bedroom and bathroom sooner now! Ack!
Cookies. Mmmm…I need to bake hubby’s favorites–chocolate crinkles, from a recipe he snagged at his high school long long ago.
Enjoy your preparations! I find that’s as much fun as the actual day.
I tell you, every little thing takes a dozen steps to do. Sometimes just thinking about the holidays makes me tired.
We’re the only house here not decorated yet either. Mainly because I was working on edits. Now it’s so cold, I’m not sure I want to decorate. I’m waiting until the weekend when the temps are supposed to soar into the 40’s! Yay!
We seem to be on the same page *lol* Good luck with the decorating!!
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OH, I do the PJ thing on Christmas Eve. Even now the kids are older, they still look forward to it.
Good luck getting your list done.
Happy Holidays!