Holiday Journal
Most of Christmas I packed away on December 27th. But there are a few items that didn't make it back into the Holiday Closet until today. One is our Christmas journal. I have no memory where the idea came from, but Ben and I started it our first Christmas and we use it each year to write a couple of pages of summary about Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. If I have any ideas for next year, like a new Christmas book I'd like to add to our collection, I'll include those as well. Sometimes the kids add drawings or their own notes. As with all my grand ideas, I'm not always consistent — last year the Christmas journal never even made it out of the box.
Anyway. Writing my notes this year made me think about how I measure and evaluate Christmas:
-Stress level
-Success of the Recital
-How Christmasy the house smelled
-Christmas tree decorations
-Quantity of peppermint bark & wassail consumed
-Kids faces on Christmas morning
This year will go down as happy on all measures. I especially loved our tree — knowing I had lots of vintage wrapping at my disposal, Kathryn C hooked me up with boxes and boxes of vintage glass balls from Denise's newly acquired, very old house. The pure vintageness was totally awesome.
How do you measure the Holidays?
posted by Gabrielle of Design Mom at Tuesday, January 02, 2007
4 Comments:
What a great idea!
That is cute. My MIL does this too and she has the kids write their Christmas list's in it (or she tapes it in) so now she has all the years of the list's in one place. I love that idea and we do it too... we also have a book that is just our families Christmas cards...we put it in the Christams box too.... :-)
I love the idea of the holiday journal! I'll have to start doing that in my home.
Thats my kathryn...the super shopper! Also Greg was so happy that he could eat fish and was doubly flattered that he made it on your christmas memory happy moments!
We Love You Gabby!
p.s. the singing time with the chimes was wonderful. Bravo to your MOTHER who is obviously every bit as talented as her daughter!
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