Posted on February 14, 2010.
What is your "Christmas calendar"? You know, when you start celebrating / preparation / shopping for Christmas? mine:
Late October / early November: start looking forward to Christmas.
mid-November I begin to see ads on TV that I get a little more excited.
late November (Thanksgiving and Black Friday): start watching movies and putting on Christmas carols (very scarcley once a week. and it really depends if it has snow). Look for Black Friday deals Christmas Mom and Dad and his brother
early December: start putting in place inside Christmas decorations (Christmas trees is not yet). also watch movies from growing Christmas (sometimes one on ABC)
early / mid-December: establishment of trees and Christmas decorations outdoors, begin to notice and appreciate other decorations.
Christmas holidays start: start wrapping gifts and last minute presents (now there should be snow or I'm really hopin 'for some)
Christmas Eve: early dinner (like a dinner lunch and really concentrate on being with the family) shows 24 hours of the Christmas story as I fall asleep. go to Christmas Mass yesterday.
Christmas: Wake up 8 / 9 / 10 and open gifts. spending time with family and pack to go away the next day to see my cousins
Boxing Day (usually in) New Years Eve: he comes home and open their gifts to us. go to the local mall or other stores in place to move all / most of our money on Christmas sales. Posted Snowboard / Ski Mountain Ski little (really no bigger then a hill). also, this year we could get to Chicago for a day or two.
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than mine, whats yours?
December 24: Volunteer to be one of the few people at work, so that someone with young children can have a day off.
December 25: Sleeping in one day of a weekend of three days.
28th December: back to work.
No fuss, no muss, no purchase in the frenzy of commercial travel and guilt that only increase stress levels.
