I never gave an update on my Holiday Activity Bucket List, so here we go!
- Host my annual Cookie Exchange party (yes, and it was a lot of fun!)
- Drive around and see Christmas lights (Not as much as I wanted to, but yes, I did!)
- Watch as many Holiday movies as I can (Definitely! I still have some taped that I DO plan on watching this Winter)
- Make a holiday themed craft (You know…I’m not sure I made anything holiday themed.)
- Make a Gingerbread house (Yes, I made a small house at my Cookie Exchange Party and then I worked on a couple houses for a village that my mom, sister-in-law, nieces, and nephew all made)
- Mail Christmas cards (Yes, I did!! I still have a few Christmas gifts to send, but hey, who doesn’t like belated presents?)
That’s a 5/6 for my Holiday Activity Bucket List! Not too shabby!
Now let’s move on to the Winter Bucket List: First Update
I didn’t put too much on my Winter Bucket List, so I haven’t really crossed off much, but let’s take a look anyway.
Winter Bucket List: An update #ontheblog! Do you have a Winter Bucket List; how are you doing? #winterbucketlist Click To Tweet- Print out London/Harry Potter pictures and figure out if I’m doing one scrapbook or two. So I’m pretty sure I’m only going to do one scrapbook, but I haven’t actually printed anything off yet, so I’m not crossing any part of this off.
- Go to a Cincinnati Cyclones game. Not yet, but I have tickets for their Wizarding World night (my sister got them for us for my Christmas gift) and I can’t wait!!
- Read 2-3 Christmas/Winter books. Christmas might be over, but that doesn’t mean I can’t still enjoy these Christmas/Winter themed books. So far, I’ve only read Hark the Herald Angels Slay by Vicki Delany, so that’s about half a point for this one!
- Watch Bird Box on Netflix. Yes! I just watched it over the weekend and I really enjoyed it. I’ll have more on the movie later this week.
- Start Losing Weight Again. I see my weight loss doctor later today, so I’m not sure where I’m at right now. Hopefully I’m around the same if I haven’t lost anything, but I’m working on losing!!
My final score is 1 1/2 out of 5! Not too shabby since it’s only been a month of Winter so far. Losing weight is a process, but hopefully by next month I can say I’m doing this. My Cyclones game isn’t until March, but I do hope to start printing photos soon and reading more Christmas/Winter books!
Do you have a Winter Bucket list? How are you doing so far?
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OMG, you have a cookie exchange party? That sounds SO cute and fun! PS — your gingerbread houses are a whole different level of cute!
Not for nothing, but I totally count making a gingerbread cookie house as a holiday craft! ?
I had the same holiday list as you. I find it harder to do some things with a toddler and baby but we did. Our toddler loved the Christmas lights and the Polar Express movie.
I think you are dong great! Good luck with everything else on your list!
Hey lots of good things, and yes one should definitely continue watching Christmas movies all winter long!
I’ll be curious what your weight loss doctor has to say! Good job on your lists!
All the things on your list sound so fun and interesting!!
You did awesome with your holiday list! Winter isn’t over yet, though!! Keep it up! Way to check those lines off!
Sounds like you did pretty darn good! I had wanted to see more Christmas lights than I had the chance to this year too, but there is always next year! I’m anxious to hear your thoughts on Bird Box! I thought it was pretty good, but I know plenty of other people who didn’t enjoy it!
That sounds like so much fun! Omg hosting parties should be amazing. I never got to host a party. Wow. That gingerbread cookie house looks awesome. I love fun activities like that, they are so cute and enjoyable.
I’m always looking for bucket list ideas and you did one for the winter? I love it!
Woah, woah, woah. Harry on the shelf is a thing?!? Lol, I had no idea! Your gingerbread houses are adorable! Also you accomplished so many things this winter. Bird Box is on my must-watch list, too. I hear so many good things!
Driving around and seeing Christmas lights is something I’ve loved doing ever since I was a young girl. Unfortunately over here in the Netherlands people don’t go to all the trouble a lot of Americans do by decorating the entire house on the outside and putting things in the front lawn and things like that. Some do this, but not a lot. Wish I could be in America around Christmas sometime haha!
Making gingerbread houses isn’t something people do a lot over here, but I’ve managed to buy a ‘complete’ set to make one together with my son and he loves doing this so much and afterward eating from it haha. He got to decorate it with candy and such. This is definitely a tradition I want to uphold in the future. We’ve been doing this for some years now.
Good luck with your Winter bucket list, it looks great! Losing weight is something that’s on my own bucket list as well.
Reading Christmas/Winter books now sounds like a perfect idea! Your Winter bucket list also sounds like all sorts of fun to do, good luck with it! 🙂
Glad to hear that you did so well on your goals and that your cookie exchange party was a success. Those are so much fun!
I love that you have a bucket list for the season! I really need to get better at doing one–especially with my kids. Glad I am not the only one who has a Christmas gift to mail!
Sounds like you’re going to have a busy winter! You have a lot of great goals on the list and some fun things too!!
Our local hockey team had a wizarding night, but it was of course the very last night I had to work at my part time job before I went seasonal. I really wanted to go! Hope you get to go to your game!
I had almost the same exact bucket list for christmas, though you got way more done than I did! I’m blaming it on the move. We moved in September, and we were working like crazy to get the house ready for the family. Which honestly was worth it, because it was a dream having them all here. And OMG, do you do Harry on the Shelf instead of Elf on the Shelf? Because that is absolutely brilliant!
Well done with your holiday list , Lauren! You’ll get your winter list done, too.
Oh, BirdBox was so fun to watch!!! 🙂 I have been watching so much on Netflix lately. Oops! Ha!! Good luck with your meeting with your weight loss DR. I love reading a winter book each Christmas season (or after if it’s still cold!).
Carrie
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Setting goals for winter is a good way to get through it and beat those pesky winter blues. Hang in there you will get there with your weight loss goals!
Sounds like you’ve had a very productive winter so far. I’m curious to see what you thought of Bird Box. I haven’t watched it yet but I plan to.
Yay! I love driving around and seeing Christmas lights, especially if there’s a gentle snow falling. It’s so fun to see all the lights and how people do different things… and a cookie exchange party. What a great idea!
Our seasons are opposite so my winter bucket list will be for later in the year but I do have a few things on the list 🙂
Making a gingerbread house sounds like such fun.
I think you’re doing well so far!!! I really enjoyed Bird Box, too. Definitely not in my top favorites, but it was entertaining!
I keep hearing about Birdbox on Netflix. Let us know if you like it! And I love the idea of a “winter bucket list”. It makes getting things accomplished look doable…even the fun things are hard to get done! If I don’t put them on the calendar they don’t get done!
Congratulations on accomplishing so much of your holiday list and the progress you’ve made on winter’s list. I second Kristen who said count your gingerbread house as a holiday craft–that’s not cheating, it’s efficient! 🙂
You have a good mix of things here, I hope you have fun at the game! I keep hearing about Bird Box but haven’t watched it. Isn’t it based on a book?
Have you read the Bird Box? It’s different than the movie, but so good. I enjoyed both of them. Congrats on marking things off of your list!
I think 5 counts as 4 too! I love this theme idea for Winter. You should do one for February when it’s dark and dreary!
Love, love, love your Harry Potter gingerbread house!!
That’s so gorgeous. Could you actually bring yourself to eat it?
Wow! You checked them all off. *applause, applause* Your gingerbread houses are adorable. I watched a million Hallmark holiday movies, so I definitely had that one covered.
So awesome that you are checking off so many things on your bucket lists! We recently watched Bird Box too and loved it! Your cookie exchange party sounds fun!
Jill – Doused in Pink
Lauren, you put me to shame on two counts; one-I didn’t set a winter bucket list and two-I’ve managed to be very unproductive this month 😛 Good for you for getting so much accomplished. Your Christmas sounds wonderful, too.
Ahh! These all sound like so much fun! And the cookie exchange party? Um, yes please! ??
I never create lists like this but I like the idea of making one! I have lists for everything else! ?
I never mailed any Christmas cards this year. I bought them, put them somewhere safe until I was ready to write them then couldn’t find them! So, oh well. ?
Weight loss is a long and hard process. I lost 14lbs last year, 10 of which was in 6 weeks, the other 4lbs took me 6 months as motivation waned even if desire did not… I’m looking to lose a bit more this year. I wish you luck! I’ll be cheering you on as I try to motivate myself once more.
A cookie exchange sounds like fun! :]! I haven’t mailed Christmas cards in the longest time, but…hopefully this year I will?!
I just watched Bird Box over the weekend too! It kinda reminded me of A Quiet Place, except with sight. :O
Not bad at all! The holiday list sounds like it was a fun one to accomplish 🙂
Great job on both of your lists! I dropped the ball on my mini holiday bucket list when my mom got sick. Feels like Christmas was just a bad dream. I had such high hopes. Boo!! Next year, I want to make a gingerbread house…it will be my first time ever at 61 years! Maybe we could do some kind of gingerbread house link-up where everyone shows off their gingerbread houses!?
Hope you will share pics of your scrapbook as you work on it. Maybe for a Keeping It Together post?