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Christmas Bucket List Finish

We didn’t finish this list, but I’m very much okay with that this year. We needed to take everything a little easier this year. I’m grateful for the slower pace.

Read 10 Holiday Romances (10/10) ✓

  • Snowed In by Jaqueline Snowe

  • The Christmas Fix by Lucy Score

  • A Holiday by Gaslight by Mimi Matthews

  • Love in a Blizzard by Britney M. Mills

  • White Lie Christmas by Karla Doyle

  • A Winter in New York by Josie Silver

  • Miss Kane’s Christmas by Caroline Mickelson

  • Blue Sky Cowboy Christmas by Joanne Kennedy

  • The Worst Christmas Ever? by Rebecca Paulinyi

  • Fall for the Rockstar at Christmas by Lyndsey Gallagher

Coop Christmas Party! ✓

Decorate the Mini Tree ✓

Letter to Santa ✓

Christmas Movies x3 (1/3)

  • White Christmas

Make Paper Snowflakes ✓

Go See Santa at Cabela’s ✓

Go See Werner Park Lights ✓

Hot Chocolate Bar ✓ - We all agreed that the Salted Caramel was the clear winner.

Meet the Reindeer - We missed them by two days. I didn’t realize that they had a limited stay this year.

Go for a Winter Hike

Puzzle Day ✓

Make Gingerbread Cookies ✓ Also, we decorated a pre-built gingerbread house.

Visit Zoolightful at the Zoo ✓ with bonus Santa meeting

Drive around and see the lights ✓

Fantasy of Lights ✓

Dinner at Coney Island and Visit to Santa Lights ✓

Christmas music dance party ✓

Watch The Grinch

Make Peppermint Bark

Christmas Advent Books ✓

  • Merry Christmas, Peanut! by Terry Border

  • Who’s that Knocking on Christmas Eve? by Jan Brett

  • A Very Quacky Christmas by Frances Watts and Ann James

  • Santa Claws by Laura Leuck

  • Here Comes Santa Cat by Deborah Underwood

  • Maple and Willow’s Christmas Tree by Lori Nichols

  • Little Bear’s Special Friend by Claire Freedman

  • The Nutcracker’s Night Before Christmas by Keith Brockett

  • The 12 Days of Christmas by Greg Pizzoli

  • The Nutcracker retold by John Cech

  • How to Decorate a Christmas Tree by Vikki VanSickle

  • It’s Christmas by Tracey Corderoy

  • Clark the Shark Loves Christmas by Bruce Hale

  • Was That Christmas? by Hilary McKay

  • Bears Stays Up for Christmas by Karma Wilson

  • The Christmas Eve Tree by Delia Huddy

  • Who’ll Pull Santa’s Sleigh Tonight? by Laura Rader

  • The Christmas Tree Who Loved Trains by Annie Silvestro

  • The Polar Express by Chris van Allsburg

  • Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree by Robert Barry

  • The Gingerbread Man Loose at Christmas by Laura Murray

  • The Christmas Magic by Lauren Thompson

  • The Littlest Elf by Brandi Dougherty

  • The Littlest Reindeer by Brandi Dougherty

  • If You Take a Mouse to the Movies by Laura Numeroff

  • How to Catch an Elf by Adam Wallace & Andy Elkerton

  • One Snowy Morning by Kevin Tseng

  • I’m Going to Build a Snowman by Jashar Swan

Find a New Christmas Album

Have a Candy Cane Hunt

Go Sledding

Send out Christmas cards

Try a new holiday drink

Make a snowglobe

Make Christmas cocktails

Create my December Daily base pages

Read A Christmas Carol

Bonus: We checked out the very large Christmas tree at the Durham.

Bonus: We had to stop at Albanese on our way to Indiana. This year they had a whole moose on a ski mountain display. Loved it!

Bonus: The Fort Wayne Zoo did a whole Christmas daytime thing and we had to check it out. Years ago, they used to have lights at night. This year, they just had some special displays and certain animals were out. Plus free carousel and train rides.

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