ahh, do you hear it? see it? smell it? those first hints of the holiday season to come...
you won't be surprised to know that i (of *pumpkin-spice-candle-day* and *orange-shirt-month* fame) have some pretty strong holiday practices: i love Christmas music, but can't listen to it before december first; i have never put up a Christmas tree on Thanksgiving Day; despite the best-laid plans, i rarely get my cards out before the week of Christmas. i have definitely made a concious effort over the past few years to simplify our holidays so that we get more out of them.
i invite you to visit my archives for a daily walk through last december. i adopted an idea from loobylu (oh, i miss you, loobylu) for a daily acitivity for each day of Advent.
the inspiration piece:
and mine:
our daily activities were a huge part of our holiday season. as you read through the posts, though, you will see we lost a little steam as we got closer to Christmas. so i'm tweaking a little bit for this year. this was a great project for our family, but it does involve a little advance preparation.
so this week's spt challenge is to take a few moments and focus on that special holiday *thing* that you are planning for this year. we are less than two weeks away from Thanksgiving. don't sacrifice your vision of a perfect holiday season by running out of time! give yourself permission to get prepared, and don't forget to snap a photo of you in that moment!
7 comments:
Thanks for the motivation to get started early.
Oh Lelly..thanks for not just being the SPT queen, but an inspiration as well.
oh you are the best! i have been in the holiday spirit since the wind started blowing and the chilly mornings/evenings have started...
i will admit that i listen to christmas music most anytime of the year when i am crafting for the holidays. even mid-summer as we did a "test run" of the gifts our girls would make for grandparents/aunts and so on. we love it.
ps- i have been known to watch my secret boyfriend anytime of year if i need a dose of happy...(will f. aka elf, of course)
so i must ask. do you continue with pumpkin through christmas or do you have a special scent for december????
I'm going to have to have a meeting with myself to figure out what I want to do and how I want this year's holidays to go.
I do the daily activity advent with my family. I like that it brings us together, but it doesn't exactly simplify . . .
I do a daily advent too, but I don't have it in a cute jar. I actually don't have any advent calender. I write my activites on paper and put them in numbered envelopes that the kids open up. I don't love this, but I hadn't seen an advent calender I liked yet and don't want to just buy one just to have one. Yours is a cute idea. I'll see if I can find a cute jar.
I am thinking!!!!!
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