Are You Ready?

You might want to make sure your stockings are still hanging up for Santa! 😉

FROM NOW ON OUR TROUBLES WILL BE OUT OF SIGHT . SO HAVE YOUR SELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS  NOW . TO ALL THAT POST HERE.  SENDING LOVE .:heart:

Almost there. Decorations are up. Holiday baking starts next week. Not ready to shovel snow yet! LOL!:womanhappy:

I wish you all a Merry Christmas and blessed New Year!.:womanvery-happy::heart:

I tried to wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays today, but was told that I could not do that anywhere but on TAY.  So, I will wish you all the best here.:heart: 

SANTA BETTER  HURRY DOWN THE CHIMNEY  TONIGHT . DO NT GET STUCK SANTA  :smileyvery-happy:

Great thread FBN!!!  Your intro is so cooooooolllll!  Now, are YOU ready?:womanlol:

Ready or not, Cheers Everyone.

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Not even close :catsurprised:

I’m so ready!  I got all of my shopping done throughout the year.  Everything has been wrapped and sorted for several weeks now.

What really helped me get ready this year was that I made a sheet to track gifts.  I made sections for birthdays, which I put in order of when they occur.  I also made a section for Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, and Christmas.  Then I listed all the names for people I wanted to buy for each occasion.  As I found gifts I recorded what I bought, where I bought it, and how much I paid.  So for next year I have a better budgeting plan based on what I spent this past year.  Now I just keep an eye out whenever I’m shopping for gifts and I already have a few things for next year’s occasions :catvery-happy:

I will say that I no longer worry about doing much decorating.  I used to get all stressed about it, but I’ve discovered it just doesn’t work for our family.  We don’t have much room to store the decorations and there isn’t a good spot to put a full sized tree, and we have 6 pets we have to keep from destrying things, so I kind of gave up.  We put up a little mini tree, a special mouse I loved as a kid, and a little felt tree on the wall that my kids can decorate and move around the little pieces.  I’m learning to enjoy everyone else’s lights and decorations instead and doing things like making extra fancy cocoa to make us feel festive.

Oh, here’s a fun fancy cocoa idea for everyone.  Make your cocoa, top with whipped cream.  Then crush a candy cane in a bag (so as not to make a mess).  Sprinkle the candy cane bits on the whipped cream.  For a finishing touch take a vegetable peeler to a chocolate bar to get pretty little chocolate shavings as a final topping.  Tah Dah!

Luv the sign and clocks it’s very cool fbn 🙂  I’m so ready to take off work for a week and go out of town for vacation Yay! Amusement parks here we come!  Hope you all have a Merry Christmas 🙂