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Preventing Holiday Stress: Holiday To-Do List
As I see it, there are two ways to reduce holiday stress:
- Lower our expectations–literally cross off the number of things on our to-do list.
- Get started earlier.
My personal preference is a combination of both these strategies. Here’s what I want to accomplish this year:Make holiday cards like last year.- I need to draft the text for our holiday cards.
- Ask Matt to select the photos for our holiday card.
- Get the card designed.
- Get the card printed.
- Pick up stamps.
- Get updated addresses from my friends and family.
- Stuff all the envelopes.
- And send!
Purchase all my gifts and get them wrapped before Thanksgiving.… Read More- Make a
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Halloweeeeeeeeen!
We are now entering into All-the-Holidays-Start-Coming-So-Fast territory. Halloween will be here next month. Then Thanksgiving. And then Christmas.I need to have a yearly list of everything that needs to get done around this time. I’ll save that for another post!As for Halloween, it’s one of my favorite holidays. I used to love it more before I had children. I know that sounds weird, but I loved spending a lot of time making an awesome costume for myself. Now that I’m responsible for 3-4 costumes, it’s a lot less fun. I now do a combination of handmade + buy some stuff so I’m not so stressed out.I thought… Read More -
Date Weekend: Things to Do in Steamboat Springs, CO
Matt and I got to sneak away for a whole glorious weekend to
attend a wedding while my mother-in-law watched the boys.We flew into Denver and drove approximately three hours to
Steamboat Springs. On the first day, we went for a hike at Fish Creek Trail, enjoyed
salads on the patio of Freshies, and got pedicures together. That night we went
to the rehearsal dinner.The next day, we enjoyed the Strawberry Park Hot Springs.… Read More
Normally, I find hot springs to be pretty un-enticing and sometimes downright
gross, but this place was beautiful. It had lots of different pools with
varying temperatures, the architecture was beautiful,
