Christmas Challenge Check-In #2
Well, I’ve been plugging along at my 12 Days of Christmas Challenge, inspired by Kae. The first several days were… interesting… but the next three days perked up a little. Tuesday- The activity for today was more cookie baking! I made my annual orange-chocolate chip biscotti… They came out great, and I was able to include some with my daughter’s guitar teacher’s present. But when I looked back on my original post, I noticed I said I was also going to make the dough for gingerbread cookies and sugar cookies. Oops. Wednesday- Long run with a Christmas playlist! This was GREAT. The weather was amazing (60s, cloudy, breezy) and my playlist was fun. The only weird glitch was that I hurt my ARM. Yes, I managed to injure my arm while running- this is a new one. More on that coming up in the Weekly Rundown. But overall I considered it a success. Thursday-Wrap Christmas presents with kids while watching Christmas movies. Well- we watched an old favorite from when my daughter was little, the Curious George Christmas Movie. And we wrapped the presents we had, which wasn’t a lot. It turns out that their presents to each other and to my husband and me, are all arriving tomorrow and Saturday. Coming up: Friday- By an amazing twist of fate, my daughter AND son will be out of the house for a few hours this evening, so I’m going to finish wrapping the Santa presents! The activity for this day was to watch a Christmas movie I’ve never seen so I’ll see if my husband wants to watch Love, Actually with me. And, I DEFINITELY have to make the dough for the cutout cookies this day. That leaves Festivus and Christmas Eve, and those days a chock-full of activities. Oh, I want time to slow down! I love the days leading up to Christmas so much, and I don’t want it to be over. How’s your Christmas prep going? Have you made cookies this week? Are you done wrapping presents? Header photo by Deidre Schlabs on Unsplash