Right when we got here, I started making lists of what I wanted to do for each holiday.
Here's what I have for Thanksgiving & Christmas.
Thanksgiving:
- 3 things we're grateful for every night
- Daily gratitude on the blog
- Read our blessings books to the boys
- Talk about what gratitude means
- "How Full Is Your Bucket"
- Make Thanksgiving cards for loved ones
Christmas:
- Sort through old toys
- Listen to Christmas music (CHECK)
- Decorate the house
- Glitter
- Make my grandma's Cinnamon rolls for Christmas morning
- Homemade brownies (try it!)
- Sugar cookies with kids
- Christmas cards-- choosing pictures! (CHECK)
- Hang the Christmas cards we recieve on the laundry room door
- Make donuts
- Make Hello Dolly's
- Make Gingerbread Houses with the Kiwi Crate kits I ordered for the twins
- Have Christmas-themed Family Movie nights every Saturday in December
- Christmas countdown
- Christmas countdown chain
- Elf on the Shelf (ordered. CHECK)
- Make ornaments
- Drink warm cocoa outside under the stars
- Have a candlelit bath for the boys
- Make snowflakes
- Have "unplugged" days during our three week vacation
- Indulge in our Christmas Eve tradition:
- New pajamas from Nanny & Papa
- Home Alone
- pizza
- cookies & milk left out for Santa
We have enjoyed reading seasonal books (Halloween & Thanksgiving so far) and the boys are so excited! This year I want to include wrapping their Christmas books as I've seen so many moms do.
As the weather turns, I want to spend more time coloring, drawing and writing letters to loved ones.
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Today's Daily Gratitude:
2 comments:
Sounds like a fun time during the season at your house. And busy also.
Love from us.
Alida
All of that sounds so nice. You're such a great mom. Your boys are going to remember all of these things, big and small, that you do to make them feel special. I am going to miss you guys during the Holidays, there is certainly a void. But knowing that you have plans and things to look forward to makes it so much easier.
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