Hey there! And welcome to another humble post of my thoughts and ideas. So officially today November hit and I cannot be more excited. I love Holiday season all of it and everything. From Halloween night to Thanksgiving to Christmas and not to forget for my fellow islanders Three Kings Days. And just so you know in PR we celebrate Christmas all the way up to almost the end of January! including celebration of the Octavitas and Fiestas de la Calle San Sebastian, we love our parties!
So November has become a critical month for me; working in the retail business and being this the busiest time of the year for this sector I have to be very careful in planning holiday activities. Adding to all this celebration my child was born in December, so I have had to learn to plan my December in my November and this year I am taking a step further!
This year I decided to fill my agenda today with everything: School calendars, parties, holiday events, family time and work events; and yes ladies and gentlemen I am scheduling my cleaning, decoration, shopping and wrapping schedules! This planning will help me enjoy these festivities and keep up with my work schedule
First I started by downloading school schedule, it is really important to keep up when my child has school or not and also be a part of the school activities which are a lot.
Second I wrote down any important dates for my work like day's where the store closes early and days we were closed
Next up birthdays this includes family and friends. You may also write it at this point any parties ahead like for example we always have a holy night get together on the 24th of December so this automatically goes into my calendar
At this point you can just start adding gift shopping deadlines, cleaning schedules, decorating days, etc. Write down all of your ideas in a blank paper just to make this easier to pass them on to your calendar.
You may also utilize a binder to keep any other planning tools like meal plans, tradition activity log, wrapping supply inventory and many more. I like to go on Pinterest and search for printable which help my imagination flow for my own creations or just utilize any that I find
Hope that me sharing my method helps you plan ahead for this holiday season and be creative, not everything we see out there works for us make it you're own and enjoy this holiday season!
