Another year, another Christmas bucket list! This season I’m still embracing the mantra of “Take it easy.” As such, I’m filling our bucket list with all my favorite things and not reaching too far. Sickness at the beginning of the month made me switch a few things around. Hopefully we can get back to all our activities by the end of the month.

Go see Santa! ✓ - We had our yearly visit to Santa at Cabela’s. Of course we had go see the fish afterward.

Decorate the mini tree ✓

Decorate the house ✓ - Being sick pushed this back a few days, but we did it.

See the Christmas tree at the Durham Museum - Never made it…

Visit the Holiday display at Lauritzen Gardens - Didn’t get to it this year. Travel impeded some of our plans.

See A Christmas Story @ The Rose ✓ - We really enjoyed the performance! As a bonus, we got student tickets for very few dollars.

See The Nutcracker @ The Orpheum - We didn’t end up going due to the weather.

Listen to A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens ✓

Make Christmas cookies

Drive through the Santa Rock n Lights ✓

Visit the reindeers Dancer and Dasher ✓

Watch 10 Christmas Movies (8/10)

• Dear Santa

• Uncle Buck (close enough, it’s set in winter)

• Hot Frosty

• Red One

• The Merry Gentlemen

• Carry-on

• Die Hard

• Holiday Inn

Go to Zoolightful at the zoo ✓

Go to Fantasy of Lights at Franke Park ✓

Dinner at Coney Island and see the Santa lights ✓

Read 10 Christmas books (10/10) ✓

• The Holiday Honeymoon Switch by Julia McKay

• All I Want is You by Falon Ballard

• The Kingdom of Sweets by Erika Johansen

• The Best Cowboy Christmas Ever by June Faver

• Jingle All the Way by Sarah Everly

• 26 Ways to Come Home for the Holidays by Jennifer Joy

• Under the Mistletoe Collection

• Kringle Down by Shane Lacy Hensley

• The Revenge by Shane Lacy Hensley

• Krampus by Shane Lacy Hensley

• Snowed in with Benefits by Misha Horne

• The Wedding Witch by Erin Sterling

Make paper snowflakes

Make Christmas cocktails

Hot Chocolate tasting

Finish a Christmas puzzle

Find a new Christmas album

Make a Christmas craft

Decorate a gingerbread house

Take a photo of all four boys together

Finish 2024’s December Daily album

Next up on the TBR pile: