I love journaling! And I love Christmas! So I chose 5 journal prompts for me to do, and I wanted to share them in case you wanted to do them too.
What are some journal prompts you are doing?
What are some of your must have Christmas songs on your playlist?
I love Christmas time, and I almost love Christmas movies even more. I probably actually do because I watch them year around! Especially the hallmark ones. These are just 10 of the movies that are on my to watch list this year.
The first 2 are superior. After they changed the actors it just wasn’t the same. I will still watch them! But the first 2 are a MUST watch.
Tim Allen as Santa Clause is AMAZING. I do like the first and third one way better than the second one. Just something about it. Some don’t like the third one, but I love Jack Frost.
Something about this movie is just so nostalgic. I like watching this the day before or day of Christmas.
There are other grinch movies that are also acceptable. They’re all good.
I discovered this years ago, and I love it even more than the regular Christmas Carol. It’s a kid movie, but it makes me laugh.
This one is so good if you really want to laugh!!
This movie is so sad, but it is a must watch every Christmas. It makes you remember what is most important in life.
I have actually NEVER seen this movie, but people say it’s a Christmas movie so I want to finally see for myself.
Who doesn’t love Madea?
This one is definitely different than the other ones! Sometimes I like a little thriller.
What are some of your favorite movies to watch around Christmas time?
My mornings usually consist of me staying in bed until I need to get up, change, let the dogs out and then head out the door.
I want to have a slower, more productive morning so I sat down and made myself a short list of things I want to do when I wake up in the mornings.
Typically the first thing I drink is coffee, but I really want to start drinking a glass of water when I first wake up.
I used to do this often before going to work and it would always make me feel refreshed.
I’ve recently started jumping up and down. I want to try to pair 50 of those with a short leg, arm or ab workout.
Journaling out my feelings help, and I do not do it enough. I’ve been wanting to try to start doing morning pages where you wake up and write 3 pages in your journal. I don’t know if I want to do 3 pages, but at least 1 big page.
I love doing this before I start my day! It helps me get more things done quicker instead of doing it all right before bed.
These are 5 things I want to start doing in the morning time before I start my day.
What’s part of your morning routine?
During this festive time of year, I mostly just want to read Christmas books! I have been in such a mood for it here lately. I have already read several, but there are plenty more I want to read that are mostly on kindle unlimited.
Hot Chocolate & Hitmen — Persephone Steele
This was a spicy book containing 3 men & 1 woman. It was well-written in my opinion. I rated it 4 ⭐️.
Christmas at Fox Ridge — Bailey Hannah
I thought this was so cute! It was definitely a hallmark-like book. Perfect for this time of year. I rated it 4 ⭐️.
Vixen’s Guide to Christmas — Chelle Sloan
Another hallmark-like book, but I rated this one 5 ⭐️. It was written so well!
Holiday Hideaway — Mary Kay Andrews
The Naughty List — Jade West
As I was scrolling through KU books, I seen this one and couldn’t resist.
25 Days — Per Jacobsen
This is one of those advent books where you read a chapter a day. I have started this as of December 1st! I’m loving it so far. I first found out about these kind of books through tik tok during October.
King of Christmas — J. E. Rowney
The Christmas Tree Farm — Laurie Gilmore
Stuck at Christmas — Georgia Coffman
Currently reading this one!
The Christmas List — Maren Moore
The Santa Rules — Mya More
Merry Christmas, You Filthy Animal — Meghan Quinn
I put this on my regular TBR MONTHS ago!
Spirit of the Season — Fern Michaels
This is one book I have the physical copy of. I got it through blind date with a book a couple weeks ago.
I know I probably won’t get through all these Christmas books, but I am going to try my best!! They all caught my interest as I was scrolling through what kindle unlimited books there were available to read.
It’s the first day of blogmas, and the first thing I like to do is set my goals and intentions for the month. I love making lists. It makes me feel more put together and with this being the last month of the year, I want to go into 2026 getting things done.
December has always been my time to feel more put together before the new year. I have done Vlogmas for years now, but this is my first time doing blogmas.
What are your goals and intentions for December?
I am a virgo, and a huge fan of lists. Lists help me get things done. Without them, I would never know what I am supposed to be doing. My memory is so bad that I need them on the daily. I have noticed here lately that I have severely been slacking on my self-care. Today I decided to construct a list of daily self-care ideas to follow.
I have been so bad about not doing any of these. I know doing these can help my mental health, and I hope it does. I want to try to do these for a month straight and then give an update about how it has helped me or not. My main priority for 2022 is going to be self-care. I have neglected myself for so long, I need to put myself as a priority. I also have some weekly self-care things that I want to do.
I love Christmas music. It is probably my favorite thing about the winter holidays. Because of this, I decided to let you in on my top 5 favorite Christmas songs – which was really hard to decide, by the way.
I decided to put my Christmas playlist on here while I was at it! These are a playlist of my favorite Christmas songs.
Today I have been feeling really sentimental. I was going through some pictures when I found some from when I was about seven or eight at my birthday party. One picture that really brought tears to my eyes were one that had my Nana and I in it… She died almost 12 years ago, but I still miss her just as much as I did back then.
When I was trying to figure out what I wanted to write for Blogmas day 4, I saw this prompt and immediately thoughts about my nana and my Pa (whom is still alive).
My favorite Christmas tradition is Christmas at their house on Christmas Eve. Every Christmas Eve without fail (at least that I can remember). My aunts, uncles, their children, and their children’s children all gather and my Pa’s house to eat and open gifts. The children all received gifts and the adults play dirty Santa. I love it now, but I loved it even more when my Nana was still alive. She had always been the glue that held this family together.
She knew how to keep everyone from fighting.
But I still look forward to Christmas Eve. After having Christmas Eve with my Pa, I would stay the night at my mom’s house. We bake Christmas cookies and drink milk. When I was younger we would leave some out for Santa. Even now I get up excited for Christmas Day. Christmas is my favorite time of year.
For me, this is the best and worst time of the year. I love Christmas, but I hate how the weather and holidays can make my mood worse. This year I have really trying to take care of my mental health, and while it is still a work in progress, I do have some things I try to do to get out of the slump I am in.
Sing out loud to music
One way I know that I am not feeling the best is when I am not singing out loud to the radio. Here lately I have made a point to have a sing outlaid dance party whenever I am feeling down. “I Am Woman” by Emmy Meli has proven to lift my spirits. That, and “I’m Still Standing” by Elton John.
Meditation
I have to confess that I have been slacking on meditating, but honestly, my headspace is always better when I am consistently meditating. A lot of times I meditate with using a video, but sometimes I just meditate with some affirmations I need to hear in that moment. My most used ones are I am worthy, I am loved, I am more than enough.
DO MY SKIN ROUTINE
I swear just doing my simple skin routine can sometimes make me feel so much better. I have a bad habit, thought, when I feel too crappy and I don’t do it even though I know it would help. It’s weird how we do that. Don’t do something even though we know it could help us.
Socialize in person
I tend to isolate myself when I feel myself slipping into a depression. Sometimes it’s really hard for me to stop doing that. I may not can socialize for too long, but a little bit is way better than nothing.
Exercise
This is the main thing that I think helps me. It especially helps me with anxiety. It has actually been scientifically proven that exercising can help with mental illness. For me, working up a sweat can make me happy actually.
Read
Sometimes it helps to escape to another world for a little while.
It is day 2 of blogmas (and vlogmas)!! I am super excited to do it this year. I decided to make a list of possible blogmas post ideas because I know I am always looking up this exact thing.
Hello everyone! It has been a while since I have posted on here. I’ve mostly been on Tumblr BUT for this December, I have decided to do blogmas!! I don’t know if there are official rules for blogmas, like having to only post Christmas things, but I am not going to do that. I am, however, going to post for at least 25 days in a roll. With that being said, it is only write to start out with my December goals. The last monthly goals for this year.
Story of My Life 