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Artwork by: Aline Figueroa

I collaborated with Aline so we could bring you a super cute Christmas Bucket list of ideas for your enjoyment this season but also your self-care. This season can really be something. It’s both SUPER fun and SUPER challenging for so many reasons. You are worthy of taking care of and these are little ideas for you to take your Christmas and your self-care to a new level for 2022! Listen to your body, mind and soul and if you need to SLOW DOWN. Do that. If you need to go FAST. Do that. But make sure to stay present.

Christmas Bucket List Ideas for You and Your Family

• Pray for family and friends (you have no idea what people are going through!)

• Outdoor activity (You can go on a leaf walk with tea, a penny walk with your family, can take a bike ride through some pretty decorated neighborhoods with Christmas lights.

• Wrap Gifts (without rushing and with some fun tea or hot drink).

• Decorate Your Christmas Tree (You can even make this an opportunity to make it a tradition with a special song or hot cocoa)!

• Christmas Movie night (Our favorite Christmas movies to watch are, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, 1994’s Miracle On 34th Street, Noelle, Elf, and Home Alone.

• Make hot Chocolate or Eggnog. 4 hot chocolate recipes to try from my fav food blogger!

• Make DIY ornaments; Here are 60 ideas in this YouTube Video I found!

• Be still and do nothing. Seriously. Try this. It’s uncomfortable but so worth it.

• Donate to a food bank.

• Read a Christmas Bible story: You can check out (Luke 2: 1-2 + Matthew 2: 1-12)

• Make and decorate a gingerbread house. Or an Oreo-Gingerbread house!

• Write letters to Santa no matter your age!

• Sponsor a child like with Operation Christmas Child.

• Bake Cookies. Here are a few of my fav bloggers’ recipes; Easy Hot Chocolate Lace Cookies, Easy Vanilla Bean Christmas Light Cookies, and Christmas Monster Cookies.

• Have a Christmas-themed game night. You can make the games Christmasy or make people wear ugly Christmas sweaters or you can have the food be a Christmas Potluck!

• Do a random act of kindness every week.

• Look and delight at Christmas lights with child-like WONDER!

• Take a family photo.

• Have a special slumber party (Make it an only Christmas Pajamas Theme!)

• Hang stockings and sit by the fire to read a book.

• Sing Christmas carols (you can always do a youtube karaoke) or sing on your own if you know how to play an instrument. Or even better, learn a new skill of playing something you wanted to learn!

You can have an intentional season of love and joy even IF or even WHEN you are going through a super hard time. You can decide how this month goes for you based on what you allow to happen in your time. Life is all about our attitude and trust me; if anyone understands wanting to be Bah humbug, it’s ME! I know my life has been super painful at times and it seems like, “what’s the point of celebrating?” The point is that our joy isn’t contingent on things that are outside of us. Our hope and joy are celebrating what Jesus did on the cross for you and me. And that is the ultimate gift we can all receive!

By accepting Jesus as our Lord and savior we can have the freedom of salvation and love of self because the price was paid on the cross for us at Jesus’s death and resurrection for all the mistakes we’ve done, and have been done to us. And that we will do in the future. Jesus is the bridge to our WHOLENESS and it’s by faith that we can experience the fullness of what Christ died to give us.

Access to an almighty and all-powerful God who is holy and has no darkness within himself. That is worth celebrating! Merry December to you and may you choose to fill your home and your mind with thoughts of cheer and hope and joy! The best is yet to come.