Comments on: I’m feeling festive…so here’s the 2022 Holiday Fun List https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/11/im-feeling-festive-so-heres-the-2022-holiday-fun-list/ Writer, Author, Speaker Tue, 22 Nov 2022 05:08:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Jenny https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/11/im-feeling-festive-so-heres-the-2022-holiday-fun-list/#comment-419719 Tue, 22 Nov 2022 05:08:18 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18857#comment-419719 I was feeling overwhelmed at the thought of all the organising and purchasing I have to do before Christmas but now I’ve made a holiday fun list I’m looking forward to doing some fun activities too!

]]> By: Beth Watson https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/11/im-feeling-festive-so-heres-the-2022-holiday-fun-list/#comment-419085 Fri, 18 Nov 2022 17:20:58 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18857#comment-419085 Our family of 4, including the 6 and 8 year old, are doing a Frosty 5k night run/walk. We will do it up with the lighted necklaces etc. Also, ice skating and a lighted parade. Breakfast with Santa is a possibility. We always play music and drive around to look at lights.

]]> By: Cb https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/11/im-feeling-festive-so-heres-the-2022-holiday-fun-list/#comment-418058 Mon, 14 Nov 2022 10:42:54 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18857#comment-418058 We spend Christmas in Portugal with my parents (2 weeks of some sun helps me slipping into a pit of despair in February) but are trying to make sure we have fun at home too.
1. Get a tree – we don’t fly until the 23rd so if we get it the first week of december, we’ll enjoy it.
2. See my son in the nativity play – did not expect a Scottish state school to have quite so much Jesus in it, but alas. He’s narrator 24 and he’s got his line down
3. Birthday extravaganza: My husband has to work on my birthday which is after school gets out so my 5 year old and I are going to go into the city for the cool earth sciences museum, conveyer belt sushi restaurant, and vegan cake (I also can’t have dairy). We’ll meet my husband after work to go to the market with the ferris wheel and carousel.
4. Some sort of festive light fun
5. Get out all our Christmas books for the season
6. Into January but still…have a “everyone is skint and sad, let’s have an open house…” Theme TBC, ideas welcome.

]]> By: Laura Vanderkam https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/11/im-feeling-festive-so-heres-the-2022-holiday-fun-list/#comment-417984 Mon, 14 Nov 2022 01:23:01 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18857#comment-417984 In reply to Beth C..

@Beth C- great list – I love this!

]]> By: Victoria https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/11/im-feeling-festive-so-heres-the-2022-holiday-fun-list/#comment-417939 Sun, 13 Nov 2022 13:18:47 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18857#comment-417939 Thanks for this! My kids are college-age so they have sadly outgrown many of these, but we started one last year: watch a new (to us) holiday movie with a bingo card. We will have hot cocoa, popcorn and cookies to accompany it and I’m even considering a special cocktail. There are many places online where you can create and customize the cards for free or there are physical sets.

I lobbied for a Hallmark movie but was told they are too cheesy, so last year we watched The Family Stone. It was a lot of fun and included some light-hearted squabbles over some of the the squares such as “is that really a Christmas sweater”?

]]> By: Nadine https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/11/im-feeling-festive-so-heres-the-2022-holiday-fun-list/#comment-417910 Sun, 13 Nov 2022 05:20:09 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18857#comment-417910 Naturli vegan butter works great as a dairy free substitute in baking. I just sub it in a regular recipe and can barely tell the difference.

]]> By: Jody Robbins https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/11/im-feeling-festive-so-heres-the-2022-holiday-fun-list/#comment-417879 Sun, 13 Nov 2022 01:29:08 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18857#comment-417879 Some excellent dairy-free holiday cookies can be found in the cookbook BabyCakes by Erin McKenna. Their gingerbread recipe is so good you won’t notice it’s vegan and gluten-free. The sugar cookie recipe is good, too. While you’re in New York you might want to stop by that bakery, now renamed Erin McKenna Bakery in the Lower East Side.

]]> By: AW https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/11/im-feeling-festive-so-heres-the-2022-holiday-fun-list/#comment-417804 Sat, 12 Nov 2022 18:32:00 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18857#comment-417804 I’d love to know what you do with matching pajamas. Pictures and wear them Christmas Eve night? I just bought some for my kids + grownups (Old Navy’s are relatively reasonable) and am trying to figure out if it’s worth it to keep them!

]]> By: Barb https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/11/im-feeling-festive-so-heres-the-2022-holiday-fun-list/#comment-417768 Sat, 12 Nov 2022 15:24:06 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18857#comment-417768 A few years ago I accompanied my husband on a business trip to NYC. My first time to NYC! While he worked, I visited the Met and had a light lunch, then walked through Central Park to Radio City Music Hall for the Christmas Spectacular. Have you seen it? It is truly spectacular!

My husband also took me on his self-made tour of “Elf” sites: Empire State Building, Macy’s, some pizza place he swore was Ray’s, the skating rink, and we had “the world’s best cup of coffee” while we watched the skaters. Earlier this month our son went with his dad/employer to NYC, so we watched Elf the night before and they went on “the tour” between client visits.

]]> By: Saturday Seven 259: Lifestyle & More - A Quilting Life https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/11/im-feeling-festive-so-heres-the-2022-holiday-fun-list/#comment-417722 Sat, 12 Nov 2022 11:00:36 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18857#comment-417722 […] also love the idea of a seasonal bucket list approach. Laura Vanderkam recently shared her upcoming Holiday Fun List–it’s a great start if you’re looking for ideas for the […]

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