December To Dos

My sister pinned a winter to-do list on Pinterest a month or so ago, and it prompted me to come up with one for Lewis and Kevin and I to complete. I used her pin and then did some thinking and googling to come up with 24 activities in total. I came up with a mixture of decorating for Christmas, making holiday treats, donating to charity, some planned activities, etc. I tried to plan it out with our calendar as best I could, but I've already had to move a few activities around. :) We'll plan on opening an envelope at breakfast (though I already forgot this morning as we were rushing to get ready for school...fail, haha).

Anyway, here's how it's looking so far:

 

I bought the little envelopes at JoAnn's and stenciled numbers onto them. I painted the clothespins (and my hands) red one day during 'nap' (which is aka 'rest time in your bed' these days). :)

Yesterday morning, we opened envelope #1:

 :)

Check!

 We started a tradition last year of going to pick out a tree down on the waterfront, and on the way, we stop and get Christmas-y coffees. It took a little while to find just the right one--a lot of them were really big trees, but we finally found one that would fit in our space. I told the guy that we were looking for a smaller one because I didn't want to have a Clark Griswold situation on our hands once we got it inside the house. :)

Thankfully, the tree made it to our house intact. :)

After seeing a tree fly off of a car on the interstate a few years ago and cause an accident, I have thoughts/worries of that happening to us. 

 

Just lights so far :)

Our activity for today is to 'Decorate the tree,' so Kevin and I just did the lights last evening. This afternoon, I will play White Christmas (the movie), and Lewis will hopefully help me put the ornaments on.

I take that back, there is one ornament on the tree already:

Lewis wanted to put his Mater ornament on last night, so we did. :)