Christmas All Year Blog

Ughh - okay I’ve dropped the ball completely here.  Now to get back on track.

Week 5 (August 10 - 16) has us tackling Decorations, Advent, and Traditions sections of our Notebook.

Week 6 (August 17 - 23) we are working on the sections of Crafts, Food, and Holiday Media.

I’m quite excited about the Holiday Media section.  I told my hubby all about it and he told me he started an inventory of our Christmas movies last year.  This is great a lot of my work is already done there - I just have to put it into my notebook.  Now I can concentrate on all my Christmas books and music.

I spent a whole day this past Wednesday and totally caught up with my Christmas Notebook. All my sections are in place so when it comes time to do them in the “plan” I’ll be ready.

Oops - sorry I’m quite late in posting this one.  Had a bit of a mini-vacation to Bronner’s CHRISTmas Wonderland (will post about it later, hopefully) and have been catching up since we got back.

I did get my lists all printed off and now I’m looking for page protectors, (I know we have them somewhere in our spare room/storage area) so I can keep everything tidy.  I think it’s easier to use the page protectors than do all that hole punching ;).

This week’s challenge (August 3 - 9) has us working on developing our Cards & Gifts section, as well as the Celebration section.  I’ve got a bit of catch-up to do, so haven’t really started getting this part together.  It’s a rainy day here, so the kids and I will have to stay indoors today which means, I might be able some time to do this.  Wish me luck!

The Challenge is up on the forum (July 27-August 2). This week is we will be working on cleaning checklist, Rudolph Club, and notes sections.

I haven’t been able to print off my checklists yet, because I’m having trouble connecting to a printer. I have hubby (my computer expert) working on it though. I have decided to incorporate a few plans (Holiday Grand Plan, Houseworks & Holidays, and Christmas Countdown), as well as some of my own ideas into my Christmas Notebook.

The Rudolph Club sounds interesting - basically every 25th of the month you do something that focuses on Christmas planning and preparation. I’ll post more about it later.

The Christmas All Year Website is now live online. There is still more to add and probably some more tweaking to do, but I figured I could still spend years working on it and still not publish it, so now it is up.  Would love to have some feedback, feel free to comment here or on the CAY Forum.

Wow!  Only 5 more months till Christmas!!!  Not sure where the year has gone; it’s just seemed to fly by.

What plans do you have to celebrate Christmas in July?

I was going to have a turkey dinner, but I don’t have air conditioning and today is going to be a bit of a hot day.  Oh well, maybe next year.  I’m now going to try to watch a bit a shopping on TV; they always have Christmas items on today.

From the folks at CAY - here’s wishing you and yours a very Merry Christmas — in July!