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This week we're sharing our holiday seasonal bucket list and how to make your own.

If you're like us and you get a little overwhelmed by the long to-do list this time of year,

we definitely recommend creating a bucket list to keep the magic in your

schedule during the busiest season. Whoa. Okay, before we jump in, can you even believe that it is

November? No. November. That's crazy. Every single month. I do feel like you just did the autumn list. But we do have such. I think that Christmas gets its own bucket list because it's only, I mean, it's two months. Yeah. November, December. But I think it gets its own list because the activities are so specific. You know. Well, and I do little things for Thanksgiving and like we do Thanksgiving, but I don't really make a whole list for it. In my mind, I do like an autumn list and then a Christmas list. Yes. And so autumn is like Halloween and Thanksgiving, like a few things roll over. You know, so Christmas has its own time. Yes. So anyway, yeah. But no, I can't

believe it because it feels like every single month sneaks up on me. It's usually like the third

or the fourth before I even realize it's a new month. And then I'm like, oh my gosh, you know,

life is either on light speed or like a snail's pace.

Those are like the only two paces in my life.

That's hilarious.

It's just, yeah, insane.

But anyway, let's get in the Christmas spirit, everyone.

Yeah.

And let's talk about some holiday bucket list stuff.

I'm ready.

And I know you're all longtime listeners and you're our friends already. But if you don't know, we do bucket list every season. It's not because we're planning to die. It's because we want to make sure we enjoy the season before the season's gone for the year. So this is our list of things we want to do before Christmas is over. Yeah. And if you need a bucket list, you can make your own. You can print one from our site. There's also some really cute ones on childhood magic.com. Yeah. Yeah. Honestly, like, I know it bothers a couple of people that we use, like, the term bucket list, but it's just what we do. It's just what we do. It's just how we say it, you know. Carmel caramel. No, I'm just explaining it. Yeah. I don't care what you think.

I'm still going to do it.

No.

But I'm just explaining. She cares. She cares. Yeah. No, I think ever, we started doing it right as soon as we adopted Nova and it did change my life. It does make life more magical. and it does it makes you stuff the magic in when you're busy, which sometimes is good.

You know what I mean? Because a lot of times, like, there's nothing worse than getting to like, you know, it's the week after Christmas, the weird week.

And you like, look in your drawer and you're like, oh, I forgot to do all the, I bought all this baking stuff and I didn't use it or I bought all these craft things and I didn't use them. And now it's like, I have to wait till next year. And then next year you won't remember they're there. This is to prevent that. This is to like keep the magic steadily flowing the entire season. But it's kind of like on autopilot and you don't have to stress about it.

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