Nearly There Week
We're nearly there! Holiday parties, cooking and a growing sense of excitement mark this week before Christmas.
Around the house, only minimum maintenance is needed this week.
The week's holiday prep checklist includes the last few chores to get ready for the big day.
Are you ready? A clean and organized home for the holiday season!
This Week's Houseworks Focus: Nearly There
Reading Assignments from Houseworks
- Minimum maintenance - page 69
Rock-bottom essential chore schedule for busy times.
Inspiration from the Web:
This Week's Holiday Prep Checklist:
- Decorate and wrap baked goods. Ice the sugar cookies, assemble the goodie trays and wrap for giving.
- Record a special holiday message for the answering machine.
- Start or add to an ornament journal. Many families give children collections of holiday ornaments; add meaning to the gift with a simple journal page recording who-what-where of each ornament.
- Make a Christmas morning box. Think ahead: what will you need when opening gifts? Include a notepad, pen, scissors, box cutter and plastic garbage bags.
- Put together any "assembly required" toys.
- Check and organize stocking stuffers. Place each family member's gifts in a separate grocery sack so Santa can get a good night's rest on the 24th. Hang sacks on clotheshangers in the back of a closet to keep stuffers from prying eyes.
- Write letters to Santa. (And keep them. Misspellings and all, you'll treasure them in later years).
This Week's Forms to Print:
This Week On the Message Boards:
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