2015 Day 17 - Still To Do

Still to do on Dec 17...YIKES!

On December 17, I spent most of the day at PJ's school helping with their 'amazing race' project...which was a total gong show.  It was a Thursday and the following day was THE LAST day to do stuff without PJ underfoot...so I had better things to do than do this event at school.

Anyway, by the end of that day, I had all Christmas cards written and ready to mail so officially what I had still to do by the end of that day is:

Mail Christmas cards
Wrap and mail gifts to locations in Canada
Wrap my mother's Birthday gifts
Finish wrapping gifts (which I would do in the evenings after PJ was in bed sleeping)
Purchase a few extra gifts
Clean house
Purchase food for Christmas Eve & Christmas Day
Final decorating
Pre-make Christmas day Lunch 
Purchase Panettone for Christmas morning breakfast
Setup pewter ornament tree
Find Santa's cookie plate & milk cup as well as stockings
Attend Christmas Symphony
Attend Jocelynne's cocktail party

Panettone ready to eat!

Setting up a few more decorations

2014 Day 17 - Still To Do

Hmmm....there were still lots to do by Dec 17:

Today's TO DO:
Mail parcels
More stocking stuffers
Make Candy Cane reindeers for grade 3 class's party
Start wrapping gifts during Survivor finale

MAIN to do's:
All wrapping
Cleaning
Final decorating
Pre-make Christmas day Lunch 
Purchase food for Christmas Eve dinner
Purchase Panettone for Christmas morning breakfast
Setup pewter ornament tree (never got done)
Find Santa's cookie plate & milk cup
Attend Singing Christmas tree
Attend Christmas Symphony
Bake Diamonds
Go to Oiler game


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This year, on Dec 17, I mailed parcels (yay), purchased final stocking stuffers, make Candy Cane reindeers for the Grade 3 Christmas party AND started wrapping gifts!  YAY me!

2013 Day 17 - Still To Do

I woke up this morning with many things to do - get stuff ready for the school Christmas concert morning rehearsal (cameras, nice clothes, tickets, etc); grocery shopping; mailing last Christmas gift (yay); purchasing last Christmas gift (yay); tidying up house before parents come over tomorrow; wrap gifts; have quick supper ready for concert; go to evening concert...and go to car dealership to get a new windshield wiper blade.  PHEW!

As I was wrapping that last gift to mail I thought, gee, I've got so much on my plate today that I might not be able to do my JYC today and after all that work to get caught up, I'll be behind again.  I sure LAUGHED when I saw today's topic!  Perfect timing!

Still To Do by Friday:
Mail last gift
Tidy up before parents come to babysit kid all day tomorrow!
Go to accounting class all day Wednesday
Buy last gift
Wrap gifts
Mail last few Christmas cards
Clean house
Volunteer at kiddo's Christmas party Thursday afternoon

Can be done on weekend, but would prefer to be done earlier:
Bake cookies
Purchase food for Christmas Eve dinner
Purchase Panettone for Christmas morning breakfast
Setup pewter ornament tree
Find Santa's cookie plate & milk cup
Pre-make Christmas day Lunch 

To do on weekend:
Go to Hockey game
Go to Symphony & celebrate Mom's birthday


I think that's it....and putting it like that it looks like a small list...except for I need most of it done by the end of the day Friday (once kiddo is at home, all activity grind to a hault...other than picking up after him) AND the house is a pig stye...so that one task alone is a biggie!

The only thing on this list that is negotiable (aka...don't have to do) is baking cookies.  I've made the 2 kinds of stuff I normally make, but thought it might be nice to have something that DOESN'T have chocolate as the main feature...lol!