Welcome to the Dashing December Giveaway Hop, hosted by Mama the Fox!
It’s not just that December is dashing by, but that the whole year leading up to it feels like it flashed by in a minute. I know that the older we get, the smaller a percentage of our total life so far is represented by a single year, but WOW! They’re starting to go by at warp speed – even if occasionally an individual day may seem to take eons.
It doesn’t help that I’m ALWAYS surprised when the winter holidays show up. Most of my life – and it’s still most by a wide percentage – and certainly my formative years were lived in places where the holidays that happened in the winter were presaged by actual winter weather. Which just doesn’t happen here.
It’s supposed to be in the high 40s or low 50s today and all next week. That doesn’t really feel like winter – or look like it. We’ll get rain but no snow, not even with that huge storm blowing across the country. (Although Anchorage sure got hammered.)
What I’m saying is that Thanksgiving, Xmas and New Year’s pretty much all manage to sneak up on me – and they did this year as well.
But speaking of the holidays, this is the final giveaway hop for the year, so before this opportunity dashes away I want to take a minute to wish you and yours a safe, happy and healthy holiday season.
Happy Holidays!
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They have snuck up but I am prepared
I guess I am preparing thru the year for the Holidays. There have been some years where I was not ready.
I prepare early in the season.
I’m prepared!
I’m prepared.
I am prepared as well.
I’m prepared. All shopping done and the house decorated. Baking mostly done, just have a couple of things that need to be done the day before.
I am never prepared.
i love the holidays, im ready!
We are usually ready for it! We plan everything on advance! 🙂
Happy Holidays to you & yours! xo
I am never prepared.
I am ready.
we don;t do much for the holidays so we are always prepared
I am prepared! Thanks for the giveaway. 🙂
I prep all year for Christmas so it never sneaks up on me. I’m sure to blow it at some point.
I am prepared.
I’m pretty well set.
always prepared!
I am so not ready for the holidays this year they really creeped up on me.
I always get my shopping done early but then I wrap the presents at the last minute!
The holidays normally are a very busy but happy time for me. This year I am just super stressed and feel like I am trying to do too much. Next year I will be putting on the brakes and limiting my time and energy to things that matter.
I usually have some gifts collected from summer clearance sales.
I’m actually prepared this year lol!
I am prepared.
I’m not ready this year.
I’ve been so busy it’s been had to plan anything- haven’t even got a Christmas tree this year.
I’m not ready this year.
prepared
I’m ready for them
They sneak up on me then cause bad anxiety but works out well in the end
Prepared for now!
I’m somewhat prepared
The holidays always sneak up on me since I moved away from my home town. You never know how long shipping will take. I would feel awful if my mother ‘s gift did not arrive on time. She has never been late for me!
I get my shopping and wrapping done early so I’m prepared.
I am ready on time this year.
I’m always a pantser – the holidays sneak up on me 🙂
I tried to always be ready and prepped for the holidays
The holidays always sneak up on me. No matter what
The holidays always sneak up on me.
They sneak up on me every single year!
I love to plan ahead, so my shopping is always done way before Thanksgiving.
I am always somewhere in between. lol
They always sneak up so fast, especially this year! Wow!
I am prepared
They sneak up!
I’m always ready and prepped for the holidays.
They definitely snuck up on me!
I am all ready!
I am just about prepared for the holidays.
I am usually prepared for the holidays as Halloween kicks off the holiday countdown for me
I always blink and the holidays are here!
I’m almost ready.
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I am prepard
I work in retail so I usually buy things as they come in!
I am ready.
It’s always sneaking up on me! I’m always last minute.
To be honest, its both. I try to get the big stuff done early and then scramble for the little stuff at the end. Thank you
I started decorating the day before Thanksgiving. I have a 7 1/2-foot tree in my Family Room and put up a 10 foot tree in the Living Room. All of my baking is done. All the shopping is done. Just need to wrap a few more presents. Merry Christmas everyone!
Sort of prepped but they still sneaked up on me.
Yes! And I always seem to have no clue what day it is the last couple weeks before Christmas!
I was definitely not ready this year. haha
No matter how prepared I think I am, the holidays always seem to sneak up on me.
we started ours early this year, but that time itself came out of no where.
We don’t run around buying things and decorating, so not really stressful. The important thing is to honour our Lord on His Birthday! Thanks and God bless!
i always think im prepared but then it sneaks up!
I would say that they usually sneak up on me but this year I would say I was prepared.
I was prepared ahead of time but it still came way too quickly this year.
I’m a planner, so I’m prepared. But it does seem like the calendar days sneak up on me and the month of December just goes by super super fast.
This year I was working up until December 23rd so I did not have a lot of time to prepare, but everything worked out just fine.
sneak up
They always sneak up on me
Oh it always sneaks up on me. LOL
They typically sneak up on me.
Prepared.
I try to get a jump on Christmas but I still end up stressed the closer it gets.
Always sneak up on me
The holidays always sneak up on me.
Totally snuck up on me this year. Actually, the whole family.
We didn’t get the tree up and decorated until the morning of the 24th.
And we celebrate Christmas with dinner and presents on the 24th.
Just squeaked by.
They are a sneaky bunch.
I am the world’s biggest procrastinator, so of course I am never ready. Thank you
I’m always all ready and prepped.
They snuck up this year!
The holidays didn’t necessarily sneak up on me this year but I tried to not stress about them as much as I have normally done. It did seem to go alittle smoother than it usually does.
We don’t really do much for the holidays anyway.
They almost never sneak up on me – more like they come barging in with their to do lists in one hand and a megaphone in the other 😉 .
Thanks for the giveaway- and Happy New Year 🙂 !
I prepare ahead of time.
The holidays do seem to sneak up on me, but we moderately plan it all out. I at the very least get the menu for the month pretty set.
The holidays came too quick but I enjoyed them very much
I’m usually ready for the holidays about a week before.