Hooray December is here!
Tree is in our living room and we’ve finished the majority of our holiday shopping. This really is our favorite time of year, so festive!
We found a great advent calendar at Target this weekend. It fits perfectly with our decor! It’s our first ever advent calendar. Last year my husband wanted 25 days of beer and I said “uh…no”.
On our long drive back from LA, we came up with 25 activities to do from now until Christmas day. Some are traditions and others things we’ve always wanted to try and never committed. So here we go, our daily holiday to do list. We’ve got one down, twenty four more to go :)
Decorate Christmas tree- Go ice skating
- Make egg nog from scratch
- Bake Norwegian butter cookies
- Gift wrapping party with cocktails
- Build a gingerbread house
- Watch Love Actually
- Find an elf
- Watch Elf, my husband loves this movie
- See the Rockefeller tree during work trip in NY
- Get a real nutcracker
- Kiss underneath mistletoe
- Find our annual ornament
- Make a traditional ham
- Brew a holiday beer
- Make a wreath
- See a holiday show
- Take a corny holiday photo
- Play Christmas music for a whole day
- Peppermint day, enjoy all things minty
- Hot chocolate in Ghiradelli square
- Dress Sprinkles, our yorkie, in a holiday costume
- Tour a neighborhood with great lights
- Watch Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
- Christmas shopping downtown
I’m arranging all the ideas onto little card stock cutouts then placing in the calendar. Each morning will open the little door and find the day’s activity. So exciting!
And little Sprinkles can’t wait to try on her holiday costume. For now a holiday bow will do….
