It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air. ~ W T Ellis

16 more weeks til December 25th!

I was surfing the web today looking for “Christmas All Year”. Yes, every now and then I need to check to see where we are in the Search Engines. Just making sure we still exist. We do!!! (#1 at Ask.com, Bing, Yahoo, Google, and Startpage) I couldn’t believe it, that just means I’ve got more work ahead of me – the main website needs a lot of fixing and updating.

Anyway it got me to thinking, wouldn’t it be neat idea to see what other Christmas sites are out there. Now I’ve done this before (and I’m sure you have too), but then I had an idea to take it a step further – why not type in the word “Christmas” to every search engine. In the weeks to come I’ll share what I’ve found (the 2nd, 50th, and 100th results, as the 1st result, in all my searches, was Wikipedia Christmas and I already share that in another post). If I get a “page does not exist” type error, or the site is rather inappropriate for all ages, I will go to the next appropriate result.

Come back next week for the first “Christmas” search engine results.

If you do your own search, please feel free to share them with us. Depending on where you live, you may come up with different results.

“Christmas is coming the goose is getting fat.”

17 more weeks til December 25th!

Today the Holiday Grand Plan starts, feel free to share you thoughts and comments about it, either here (in this blog) or at the CAY Community.

Since my holiday plan uses a bit of something from the other Christmas plans (here) with a bit of me thrown in, I figured I would come up with my own name and acronym too – Holiday Organising & Planning or HOP. So I guess I’ll just HOP to it (groan) and briefly tell you my weekly schedules.

Each week, from now until the beginning of December, I’ll focus on a different room and holiday aspect (very similar to the plans). Because I live in a cooler climate and celebrate Thanksgiving in October, I’ve needed to tweak a few of them to better suit my needs.

All my weeks start on a Monday (giving me the whole weekend to finish a week if I get behind). Here’s the first 3 weeks to start (don’t want to make the post too long):

Week 1: August 27 – Preparation
This is the week I review what’s in my notebook (sometimes I get excited and do this earlier) and make lists (cards, gifts, etc). My cleaning focus is my children’s rooms. (I want them to have clean rooms before school starts.)

Week 2: September 3 – Money Week
It’s time to start reviewing what we’ve saved (specifically earmarked for Christmas) and what we still need to save. So it’s Budget Review time. Cleaning focus is on the Storage Areas (including shed and garage).

Week 3: September 10 – Party Planning
Every year we have (what I like to call) a Santa Claus Parade After Party. After watching the parade, we all come back to my house and eat. So I need to start making lists, buying food, etc.. Cleaning is all about appearances, the Front Yard and Foyer.

Christmas is getting closer, only . . .

18 more weeks til December 25th!

Welcome to the Christmas All Year (CAY) Blog!

Here is some of what you can expect to see on here

• my personal thoughts regarding Christmas (as well as other members)
• Christmas Gift Ideas – we’re keeping our eye out for some unique, outrageous gifts as well as some good bargains to suit the more frugal budgets
• Christmas Organizing Tips – what we at CAY do to organize for the season
• Christmas Movies, TV Shows, & Music – reviews of old and new classics as well as what’s coming soon
• Christmas in the News – anything fun & interesting about Christmastime

Please remember we are just getting started. Check back every once in a while to see what’s happening.  Enjoy!