Journal Your Christmas Giveaway

This is our first Christmas in our new home and some family will be out of town and some coming into town to stay with us. The kids already got their main Christmas gift early - 2 new puppies. So I hope to keep the rest of Christmas pretty low key and just enjoy being in the moment.

this Christmas will be our last as just a couple since I'm 27 weeks pregnant right now.
I'm planning on savoring it. I am also eager to take our photo for our christmas card. A lot of people will find out only then that we're expecting!
Thanks for the chance to win this class.

I'm planning on creating a more sane holiday season by not working full time! I am taking a break from working to be home with my kids more and I hope to establish some new traditions and make the holidays extra special.

Every year I say I am going to be more organised, and every year I find I am not. This year I am going to try to get things listed and actually put dates on my calendar to try to get them done. Wish me luck. Or better yet, put me in Shimelle's class.

My plan for a sane holiday season is to take some time off from work to focus on my family in a way I haven't done in way too long. I also plan on getting some "help" around the house with housework so I can have more fun with my boys instead of the mop and bucket.

I've started my shopping already...looking for sales now and buying the things that i can on sale, so the stress of holiday shopping does not get the best of me.
retty much doing all that i can early, so that i can sit back, relax and enjoy the time with my family.

SIMPLIFY...make some lists in my holiday planner. Try not to be running around the city, but at home more.

By planning my December scrapbooking in advance ... this will be my first year trying a December Daily album!

I plan on really taking the time to slow down, to enjoy, to embrace and experience the holiday season. Our adopted daughter Ava will be spending her 1st holiday season in America this year. I want to show her how beautiful and amazing this time of year is - so I'd love to use the December daily/journal your christmas to record all of my daughter's firsts this year.

I have been following your blog for a long time and I have started my December Daily two years ago. I plan to display them in a basket, like you suggested, this holiday season. Thanks for sharing your ideas with us.

I would love to take this class! I love shimelle's workshops...thanks for the giveaway.

I plan to make this holiday more sane by teaching my kiddos the real reason we celebrate and less of the materialisic tendencies that can creep out! Wish me luck!

I am making holiday ornaments for my staff of 50 out of natural materials collected from trees near our facility. A touch of nature collected from our grounds - meaningful.

I'd like to try doing more activities. Last year, my Dec Daily was hard to finish because I didn't really get to do much because of work. I want to be more creative.

My teenage daughter just completed her first fleece blanket (the kind you tie knots in) so I plan on giving blankets as gifts. Her making them will be a big help.

WOW oh Wow! What a great offer and thank you so much for a chance to win!
It's been pretty peaceful for me lately during the holidays as most of my family and friends live all the way across the country (i'm in so cal, they are in ohio!) and I miss it all a little bit.
I do enjoy the more sane and serene pace though and I get to spend some time with my boyfriend's family so it works out ok I suppose!
Probably going to be fairly quiet this year again, just by virtue of living across the country with no way to get back to Ohio.
Getting away is certainly ONE way to change it up, eh? ;)
Thanks again for the chance to win!
Pam Hoffman
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I'm giving DD ONE present this year. That's it. One thing she realllllllllllly wants. No waste. No excess. No overabundance.

I am hoping to add a little holiday craziness by creating some new traditions with my husband and me. We have been married for three years, and I finally feel like this year we could maybe actually celebrate the season!

I plan to keep myself sane by enjoying it all and accepting what I do not get to do :-)

I am going to plan ahead...make some list and try to follow through...so I can enjoy christmas