Journal Your Christmas, Day 5

Yesterday was a very long day for me, so rather than press myself, I decided to just curl up with a book & go to bed early. It was a good choice -- I woke up nice & early & after watching the season finale of Heroes, I did my page for December 5th!We were "prompted" by Shimelle to consider how we count down to Christmas ... and about advent calendars. We don't have an advent calendar, but I am constantly aware of "due dates" for various parts of our celebration ... so I wrote my dates down & checked off the stuff that's done!

Here's the text for the page:
Important Dates for 2007

Nov 21: have all “long distance” Christmas gifts shipped

Nov 24 to Dec 14: wrap all other Christmas gifts

Nov 30: have all Christmas cards written, addressed, and stamped

Dec 1: mail Christmas cards, get out holiday decorations

Dec 1 to 15: bake Christmas cookies

Dec 2: see “It’s a Wonderful Life” at the Tivoli Theatre!

Dec 8/9: get Christmas tree

Dec 9: see The Nutcracker (House Theatre version) with Chris

Dec 10-14: decorate Christmas tree

Dec 13: mail package for “Letters to Santa”

Dec 15: Mom & Dad arrive midday

Dec 16: Cookie Day!

Dec 16: Distribute gifts to everyone we won’t see before Christmas

Dec 22/23: possibly celebrate Christmas with Mom & Dad!

Dec 24: Christmas Eve dinner!

Dec 25: celebrate Christmas on our own! (Jason may come over in the afternoon)

Dec 26: celebrate Christmas with Kaye, Dave, Kim, Seldon, Jayne & Larry!

Dec 31: celebrate New Year’s with Barbara & Larry!