Finding Balance: Reducing Holiday Stress
We are in the final quarter of the year, and I find myself wanting to have a plan. I like going into the new year refreshed and ready.
Here are some of the things that are on my mind:
- I want to go through our budget and refresh it for the upcoming year. We absolutely need to get better about sticking to the budget we have set for ourselves. Life is always changing and evolving, so we have to intentionally set aside time to update our budget to match our life and then track our spending against it.
- I want to go through our home to remove, recycle, and donate anything that we don’t really need. It’s so easy for stuff to accumulate that we don’t really use, especially since the boys grow so quickly. (Living room, kitchen, boys’ bathroom, boy’s room, boys’ closet, hallway, office closet, rest of office, master closet, master bedroom, master bathroom, outdoor closet, backyard). It feels like I need to carve out 13 different chunks of time to knock these off the list.
- Make our holiday card.
- Make personalized gifts.
- Finish our back deck. We are installing a shade sail and trying to create the feel of a little room on our deck. The project has been going on for way too long. I would love to get it finished!
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