November was a blur for me. I am looking forward to a slower paced December!
Review of Key Tasks For November
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- Start and Finish My Christmas Shopping I have started my shopping but have only be made it through about 75% of my list. I really need to work on this as, I dislike shopping in the last couple of weeks of December.
- Big Boy Birthday Party
- Christmas Giving We have completed the toy donations component of this task, but we didn’t fit in volunteering this year unfortunately which I wrote about here last week.
- Christmas Craft Stall The craft stall was a huge success and dramatically exceeded my expectations. So many of my friends helped and worked very hard to pull this off. I was grateful to be surrounded by these clever ladies – thanks a bunch!
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This was last weekend and he and his mates had a great time. I will post more about what they did next week.
Key Tasks For December
- Play! As I mentioned at the start of this post, November was just too frantic and I did not play with the kids anywhere near as much as I usually do. To prevent this from happening again, I am going to be adding “play” to my to do list each day and making sure that I give it the priority it deserves.
- Finish My Christmas Shopping I would really like to have this completed by Friday week (11th).
- Daughter’s Birthday Party
- Celebrate The End Of The School Year It has been a pretty big year for our family, and the kids have worked hard at school, so I want to find some way to celebrate together the end of the school year and recognise their efforts.
- Christmas Craft Stall Feedback This was the first year that I have been involved with craft stall at the kids school. It was a steep learning curve for me, and I want to document the process that I went through and provide general feedback on how it went.
My only daughter turns 6 this month and as it is her first year at school, she will also be having a party. I have not organised a thing yet and the party is ten days away, so I have quite a bit of work to do!
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I love how you have play at the top of your list!
We have our tree up, which is exciting. IT sets the Christmas feel in the house. This Year is pretty busy for us, but not too bad activity wise. I have a lot of ‘making’ to do! I am aiming to finish all home made gifts in the first week or so of December. Then I can make the baking gifts.
But I have all the rest of my Christmas shopping done except of a couple of items on my list. Buying/making gifts throughout the year definitely relieves the stress/business in December.It will be good to be able to relax and enjoy some Christmas events and parties in the a week or two. We have planned to see the Myer Windows/drive or walk to see local Christmas lights/Go to local carols concert and spend casual times with friends. All the best with your plans!