Holiday Bucket List 2020
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Well, friends, we are FULL ON HOLIDAY now!
Have you thought through your month of December? Do you realize how fast it’s going to go??!?!?!? I hate to say that, but after how quickly this (bizarre, horrendous, nightmarish) year passed by I have no doubt that the best & last month will be a blip on the calendar.
SO…let’s get to work and create a bucket list of things we want to do this month!
In no particular order, here are the things I’d like to do this month including things I’d want to do if I had children and/or if we lived where it was cold. =}
Roast S’mores & drink hot chocolate by an outdoor fire while listening to Christmas carols
Watch Elf, Home Alone, and Home Alone 2 while eating Christmas popcorn
Drive around to look at Christmas lights in our Christmas jammies (wine for me, hot chocolate for kids, clearly dad would be driving)
Go to Santa’s Wonderland (near College Station, TX)
Deliver poinsettias to an elderly community
Bake Christmas cookies for family & for our policemen and fireman
Make homemade eggnog and eggnog spike for friends and family
Adopt a family for Christmas (to provide their Christmas gifts)
Go ice skating (for Houston that would be at Discovery Green)
Go skiing or snow shoeing
Stay in a log cabin, sipping champagne by a fire and watching the snow (dreaming)
Make a Christmas DIY craft
Make a homemade Christmas potpourri to simmer on the stove
Build a snowman
Host a Christmas party with all of the trimmings
Go caroling door to door
Cut down a Christmas tree
Make a handprint / pawprint ornament as a keepsake
Get a full fledged - all the calories and sugar - Peppermint Mocha coffee
Create a FUN advent calendar
Take a picture with Santa
Read through the story of Jesus’s birth & attend Christmas Eve service
Host a Christmas gift exchange (White Elephant style or Secret Santa style)
Decorate or provide decorations for those less fortunate (or those who’ve lost everything in the hurricanes this year)
Take a photo with matching family pajamas
Did you see my post last week with a bunch of FUN & FESTIVE stuff to do around Houston this month? If you didn’t, CLICK HERE.
If you’ve missed my posts for gifting for everyone, everywhere, and every price point as well CLICK HERE: gift guides And if you still something to wear for Christmas CLICK HERE: holiday outfit ideas.
Continuing the merriment…
Oooooo weeeee, it is difficult to pick a favorite Christmas cookie. I am hands down a chocolate chip cookie fan tried and true. Add in some oatmeal and or some nuts + sea salt and you’ve just taken wonderful to amazing. (Thinking of you, Emily P!)
I love cookie exchanged parties because you get to try cookies you’ve never had and get recipes! With an auto-immune disease and underlying attempt to stay away from gluten regardless (ahem - the devil cough cough) my cookie eating days can be limited.
But let’s dream of easier times…I would vote Santa’s Trash (hello salty & sweet = heaven) and these peanut butter Reese’s chip cookies. Pretty sure I just gained 5 pounds looking at these recipes. =/ Maybe I’ll convert them to healthier and share it this month.
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*If you missed my holiday printables post - go back and snag them. I created some fun freebies for you to use over the holiday season.
*Don’t forget you can use the Holiday tab at the top of the page to find things related to Christmas.
Are there things you want to do this must that you would put on your bucket list??? I’d love to hear new ideas!
Wishing you all a wonderful day!
‘Tis the season,
XOXO
