The most wonderful time of the year has started. Christmas is almost upon us, but, as this has been a year unlike any other, the festive season is sure to follow suit.
The virus infections keep increasing… well, we have been good in making up plan B all year… so let’s make our Christmas as festive as we can. At home. It might be the last event in 2020, so let’s eat, have fun and enjoy family & friends. Happy holidays! Be merry! (Next lockdown seems just a matter of time so let’s spoil Christmas…).
That being said, let’s get prepared for the last event this year: don’t consume blind (Lametta stays in dusted boxes as in the last years) but rather let’s get to work and plan along with maximum effort. Don’t only decorate your house as beautifully as usual. This year we all should decorate so it would be ready for a filmset.
How about not getting your ingredients just in the shops around the corner but rather travel some kilometers for a change and explore what’s out there. Get the best. Hopefully local.
Don’t only plan dinner strategically to get the most time with the family. But rather make it a family event. One (or two) glass of wine included.
No time for all of that? Oh, you have plenty of time! Remember, it’s corona time. And lockdown “light” got extended. No Christmas markets… no big parties (social distancing)… actually it’s sad but it’s also great news: you just won time this year. More time than ever before. It’s the plan B!
Time for baking cookies. For hours (one or the other batch will end in the bin anyway). Time for a glass of (Glüh)wine. Time to chill. Time to make own candles from bee wax (and smell it. Sooooo good). Time for thinking of Christmas gifts (sorry out there, this year no excuses for last minute gifts… the goal this year: happy gifted loved ones. So, if you haven’t started gift thinking, now it is the time). Followed by my absolute favorite part of all: listening to Christmas songs while wrapping gifts. Time for enjoying those cold (white) December evenings with candles. Time for Christmas dinner thoughts (I love reading my Christmas recipe book to get inspired… and try one or the other out and make it a festive pre-Christmas dinner). Time to light a fire. Time for long walks. Time to think what to wear. Time to sit back and watch old & new Christmas movies (all time favorite: actually love. Cannot wait… this is when hubby will run away). Time to find a Christmas tree & giving it a festive dress including many many lights. It shall sparkle. (PS: decorating the tree without listening to Maria Carry is a no no. That will be the second time for hubby to run away… you got it: he is the Christmas grinch).
Oh, so much gifted wonderful time. Don’t take it as granted! Make the best out of it! I am looking forward to it!
Happy holidays!
My favorite time of the year has just begun.
And what about now, with the possibility of a lockdown Christmas looming? Let’s not sugar-coat the sadness of missing loved ones, but it does mean that, should the worst happen, you don’t need to think of a reason why you cannot attend your outlaw‘s dinner or you won’t have to suffer a chat with the uncle you haven’t seen in a year. No, instead you can lounge in your, well, loungewear for weeks on end.
Stuttgart547 