Christmas Bucket List Update #1
December is in full swing! Let's see how we've done so far this month.
Completed 6/28
- Go see Santa!
- Got to Fantasy of Lights at Franke Park
- Watch Christmas Movies
- Elf
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas
- Charlie Brown Christmas
- The Polar Express
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
- Christmas Vacation
- Love Actually
- A Christmas Story
- Holiday Inn
- White Christmas
- Christmas in the Smokies ✓
- Christmas Crush/Holiday High School Reunion ✓
- A Dogwalker's Christmas Tale ✓
- A Christmas Crush ✓
- My Santa ✓
- Christmas in the City ✓
- Merry Kissmas ✓
- Naughty & Nice ✓
- How Sarah Got Her Wings ✓
- Make Christmas Cookies
- Ride the Christmas train (New Haven)
- Visit Oakland Zoo lights
- Go ice skating
- Make Christmas cocktails
- Send Christmas cards -- Over 50 already sent out. Just need to finish the last 30 or so.
- Make peppermint bark
- Load computer/phone with Christmas music
- Make a Christmas craft
- Check out and read 25 Christmas books
- Bear Stays Up for Christmas by Karma Wilson
- Jingle-Jingle by Nicola Smee
- What Santa Can't Do by Douglas Wood
- A New Improved Santa by Patricia Rae Wolff
- How Many Sleeps 'til Christmas? by Mark Sperring
- Make Christmas ornaments
- Make paper snowflakes
- Write a letter to Santa
- Decorate a gingerbread house
- Host/attend Christmas cookie exchange -- I made my Ginger Molasses Cookies and in return we got Cardamon Shortbread, Iced Sugar Cookies, and Stem Ginger Cookies. Oh so good!
- Read a Christmas-themed book (or two)
- Participate in Secret Santa -- Arthur and Quentin had their Secret Snowflake exchange through the parent group. And I sent off my book-related Secret Santa gift. Hopefully mine will be waiting in Indiana when I get there.
- Find a new Christmas album -- Done! I found two actually: Leslie Odom Jr.'s Simply Christmas and Lindsey Stirling's Warmer in the Winter. Both have been on repeat.
- Make Hot Chocolate
- Drive around to see the Christmas lights
- Make Christmas albums
- Make a snowglobe
- Have a Christmas dance party
- Call Santa
- Have a candy cane hunt
Next up on the TBR pile: