Hello and happy December friends! I hope you had a wonderful November and will forgive me for my absence last month. I'm not exactly sure what happened, but one day I was planning out posts for the whole month, then the next it was November 30th. I hope you had a wonderful month and are looking for some fun things ahead. December is always busy for us, but I am looking forward to everything we have planned.
ON THE AGENDA THIS MONTH
1. Cookie baking with mom. Mom came over today to bake cookies and it was very nice. We baked chocolate chip, peanut butter and spritz cookies. It is a bit of an annual tradition so it worked out that we were able to do it today.
2. Les Misérables with mom. On top of baking cookies today, mom and I are going to see Les Misérables on Thursday. I have never seen it live so it will be a great time and perfect start to the month of December.
3. Book Clubs this month. I have a total of six book clubs this month:
a. The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year - Cocktail Book Club
b. Kingdom of Ash - SJM Book Clubc. Silent Book Club monthly meetingd. A Song to Drown Rivers - Fantasy Book Clube. A Very Bad Things - Mystery/Thriller Book Clubf. Heartless Hunter - A Court of Pong and Literature Book Club
Honestly, I am not sure why I signed up for so many this month, but I am overall very excited to do them all. I'm almost done with The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year for tomorrow's meeting and I think it will be fun.
4. Extended family Christmas. This weekend I am going to my extended family Christmas party with my mom's entire extended family. I haven't seen some of them in a long time so it will be nice to see them.
5. Friendsmas. We're also doing our Friendsmas party on Saturday and it will be super fun. We're going to decorate gingerbread houses, exchange gifts and hopefully play some games.
6. Fantasy Book Club Party. I'm excited because I was invited to the Fantasy Book Club Holiday party. It will be a bunch of us fantasy/SJM readers getting together and spending some time together.
7. Birthday party for my friend's kiddo. My friend's daughter turns 3 this month and I'll be going to her birthday party. I think it will be a lot of fun - even if to just see how cute the kids are.
8. Christmas with our families. We always celebrate Christmas with my family on December 23, so we will be going there on that day. Then we will be celebrating Christmas with his family the Sunday after Christmas. I love our traditions with our families.
9. Ann Arbor day with friends. I am excited because towards the end of the month I will be going to Ann Arbor (Michigan) for a day of book store hopping and coffee shops. It will be such a fun time and I am very much looking forward to going with the ladies.
GOALS FOR DECEMBER
1. Focus on self-care. I say this every month, but this month especially it will be very important I keep up on my self care. This includes skin care, drinking water, taking vitamins, etc. I have been skipping a lot of these and I am suffering for it.
2. Start moving for 30 minutes a day. Along with self-care, I would like to start moving my body for 30 minutes a day. I've been scouting out some videos on YouTube that I'd like to try and I think it will help me with #1.
3. Be deliberate with my time with friends/family. Life is too short to be anything but present and this month I'd like to practice that.
4. Start planning for 2025. I know it seems so far away, but before we know it we will be staring 2025 down and I'd like to have a decent plan for my year before I actually start my year.
Like previous months I will be using a tracker that I created which was inspired by Evermore Paper Co.. Their website is still down, so I am using my version I created for tracking this month. I'm hoping their site will go back up soon, but if you'd like to use mine, just click on the image at the end of this post - to be clear their version was free and this version is free. I will not earn any income from this printable.
Well I think that is everything for today! I hope you have a great month!
Question of the Day: What do you have planned in December?
Have a wonderful day,
Jackie
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