Monday, November 15, 2010

Preparing for Christmas!

I've heard from more and more people lately that they have their Christmas shopping finished already! What?? Apparently, I am extremely behind, because I have not started yet. I have not bought for a SINGLE person. Well, unless you count the huge gift that Luke and I bought for ourselves yesterday (more to come on that on Thursday when it arrives! I'm SOO excited!) Anyway, I don't think that counts.

So yes, I am already feeling behind, and it's not even Thanksgiving yet! I think I need to chill! But in order to calm myself down and prevent myself from feeling stressed, I did cross my first item off of my Christmas to-do list today: order Christmas cards.

I am so excited, because I got 5o of them for FREE this year. They should arrive sometime before Thanksgiving, and I am looking forward to stamping and addressing them while sipping hot cocoa and watching Christmas movies sometime during my 5-day Thanksgiving break. My goal is to have them all sent out the first week of December.

Last year I think I sent my Christmas cards out about a week before Christmas. It was definitely pushing it, and seriously stressed me out!

Anyway, having this first task completed motivates me so much! I now plan to spend the evening making a list of people I need to buy for, and what I plan to buy for each person. And this weekend I want to do a deep-cleaning of the whole house so that it's completely ready for Christmas decorations! Luke and I plan on putting our tree up and decorating the house the weekend after Thanksgiving. It will be nice to have some of this boring stuff out of the way so I can really enjoy the Christmas season and focus on what it is really about.

So tell me: do you have your Christmas shopping finished?? Please tell me I'm not the only one who hasn't started yet!

5 comments:

  1. You're way ahead of me on the Christmas cards! We don't even have a good picture to use on ours yet. I do have alot of shopping done for my family, but I haven't bought a thing for Derek yet.

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  2. I think you are way ahead of the game girl! I need to get my made..ASAP! I am so looking forward to thanksgiving too! :-)

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  3. Huh? Christmas shopping?! I am so deep in busy-ness that I don't know that I can even think about it till December 1. :) You're not alone!
    Plus, your blog is super cute. I am really glad I found it. I'm a follower!!

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  4. Our Christmas shopping is about 98% done. I start shopping just as soon as Christmas/New Years ends since there are some GREAT deals to be had during that time. I also score free gift cards from making online searches that I use for Christmas too.

    I've been meaning to ask you...what happened to your savings site? Did you decide to close it down?

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  5. I've started some Christmas shopping so I can be done before December. I can't wait to see pics of your house with your decorations up! I love to see houses all decorated :)

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