Days To Christmas + Holiday House Prep

I hope you have been following along at 100 Days To Christmas because obviously, I am not real good at remembering to post my progress each day. OK, I remember, I just haven’t had time. LOL!

Here’s what we have missed:

89 Days Until – Take the Family on a mini-trip to a Fall place close to home. We have corn mazes, hay-rides, haunted houses, and haunted trails around. We haven’t been anywhere yet, but they are on our Calendar!

88 Days Until – Make an apple recipe. OK, this one has also not been done yet, but the supplies are on our shopping list. I am actually making a pumpkin pie or nine, depending on the size of the pumpkin we purchase.

87 Day Until – Costume Planning. Ha! This one is DONE! All three kids have costumes. Me and Ricky, on the other hand do not, nor do I know when we are going to get them. But, we have a party to attend on the 24th, so we better get busy!

86 Days Until – Hosting Halloween. Yep, this one is also done. We have two Halloween parties, a fundraiser Haunted Trail (Ricky’s baseball team), Zack’s school party, Trick-Or-Treating at the local Convalescent Home, a Dinner, and Halloween Trick-Or-Treating. Yikes, looks crazy when you put it down like that. ROTFL! Anyway, we have to have everything planned and prepared or we go NUTS!

85 Days Until – Decorate for Halloween. We have started this one, but I keep telling Ricky that we are missing a box and he won’t get back in the attic to look. So, until he does, we are done. LOL!

84 Days Until – Handmade Goodies. Who do you make handmade items for? You need to be setting aside time each day to get those completed! I am not really doing any this year.

83 Days Until – Catch up Day! Whew, even missed the catch up. LOL!

82 Days Until – Today you should have been looking at the beautiful Fall colors. Unfortunately, we don’t really have Fall colors down here in South Alabama. We have Spring, Summer, and Winter. Our stuff is either growing, in bloom, or dead. LOL! The leaves die, we don’t get pretty colors.

81 Days Until – Today you are supposed to go back over your budget and start making plans from all those catalogs.

80 Days Until – Go through your stash. We all have a stash of gifts that we have either gotten and don’t need or bought at a great price during the year. Do you have anything you can give to someone on your list?

79 Days Until – Plan to do something this Christmas Season… movie, theater, musical, etc… watch for the dates and put them on your calendar!

78 Days Until – Halloween! Time to add candies and goodies to your shopping list. I already got mine at Sam’s.

77 Days Until – Today we are supposed to be finding some Holiday Crafts. Here are some great sites:

76 Days Until – Catch Up Day (and I missed the second one LOL!)

75 Days Until – Go on a leaf hunt! Doesn’t that sound like fun? I am adding it to our school plan and will have Tripp find out what tree each leaf belongs to and make a poster.

74 Days Until – Work on a project… one of those Fall things. We actually did this and on the correct day. Zack and Ricky carved a pumpkin using our new Dremel Pumpkin Carving Kit (look for review and GIVEAWAY soon.)

73 Days Until – Pictures… time to make a photo appointment! How long has it been since you had a family photo made? It has been so many years for us that neither Tank nor Zack are in it. Yikes! I added this to my calendar for later… especially because my mother keeps begging for one.

72 Days Until – This is TODAY! Can you believe I am caught up? Holiday gift wrap. Do you have enough paper, bows, bags, labels, etc? We should… mom and I go together. We can have more designs if they are split between us. Nice!

BONUS HOLIDAY HOUSE PREP:

Today we are going to go about this one a little different. Is your computer ready to handle all the photos, emails, newsletters that you are going to be getting this upcoming holiday season? I know mine isn’t! As of this minute, my computer is running so slowly that I am ready to throw it out, plus with almost 200 emails in my inbox that I need to deal with, I have a ton of computer work to do. Here’s what I suggest: