I set out a plan: my goal was to have all of my holiday "tasks" completed by December 1st. All of my holiday shopping, decorating, wrapping, Christmas cards, ALL OF IT - done before the month began.
I did it!
Yep, I did all the things - and it feels amazing. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to suck out all of the holiday joy of doing these things closer to Christmas - but I must say, there are plenty of advantages to getting things done early. I even took my kids to see Santa at the mall already, and guess what - there were NO lines, and NO kids - that means my kids got to spend a solid 20 minutes or so with the big guy - all to themselves. Double win.
Now of course not everything went as planned - some of my online shopping orders are backordered so I'll still have more wrapping to do later on, but at least the majority is done. Then of course there was my failed attempt to get some adorable Christmas pictures of the pig (seriously, have you ever tried to get a pig to sit still with a hat on?? It's near impossible):
[Now off to Google what people do to "relax" as I've never actually tried it before...] :)