December Love List

It's the most wonderful time of the year. Despite hardships, tough days and moments, try to see the beauty and magic of the Christmas season. Everyone is kinder, the air feels lighter, Christmas music fills our hearts and homes...decor...lots of food and we don't care about the extra weight. It comes once a year - the birth of Jesus.

Here are a few of our favourite things for December. Make it magical for yourself xxo, Renee

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• Host a cookie decorating and Christmas movie night

• Christmas manicure and pedicure

• Visit a 'live' nativity scene

• Go to a candlelit church service

• Make and decorate a birthday cake for Jesus

• Indulge in Peppermint Lattes

• Fill a shoe box for Good Samaritan : Operations Christmas Child

• ShoeBox Project : deliver to women's shelters

• Visit an elderly home and hand out homemade cookies

• Write a letter to a family friend or some troops stationed overseas

• Donate to the Salvation Army while shopping at the mall

• Serve a meal together as a family at a local homeless shelter

• Seniors Christmas gift at a retirement home

• Clean out your toy boxes and donate good quality items to an opportunity store

• Santa photos

• Attend a Christmas concert

• Make paper snowflakes to hang from the bedroom ceiling

• Write letters to Santa

• Make play dough snowmen

• Mail hand-written Christmas cards to family and friends

• Unwrap and read a new Christmas book

• Have a story night and read all your Christmas storybooks while enjoying a plate of cookies and milk

• Snuggle up and read The Night Before Christmas.

• Send a small Christmas care package to a missionary or priest

• Draw a bubble bath by candlelight with Christmas tunes playing

• Celebrate Saint Nicolas Day (December 6th) by doing a secret act of kindness

• Build a snowman with your little one

• Bundle up and go on a sleigh ride

• Treat yourself to dinner at your favorite restaurant

• Buy yourself a new scarf or cozy socks