Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning.
Speaker 2: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
Speaker 2: tip is to make your holiday fun list this week.
Speaker 2: This is a great time to think about any festivities
Speaker 2: you would like to experience between now and the new year.
Speaker 2: By making a list now, you will make a plan
Speaker 2: for the things you want to do, and, just as important,
Speaker 2: know what doesn't really matter as much during what is
Speaker 2: often a busy season.
Speaker 1: I love the holidays. I love the festivities. Every year
Speaker 1: I make a list of the things I want to
Speaker 1: experience and that my family wants to experience. I don't
Speaker 1: want to get to January and realize that we didn't
Speaker 1: do something that we would have genuinely looked forward to.
Speaker 1: Of course, after thirteen Christmases in the same location, I
Speaker 1: have found a lot of different activities and locations that
Speaker 1: are fun to visit. We know of about half a
Speaker 1: dozen holiday train exhibits. There are tons of Christmas shows
Speaker 1: and concerts and holiday light displays too. We have sampled
Speaker 1: three different Breakfast with Santa options.
Speaker 2: The first few.
Speaker 1: Years, I made a holiday fund list to make sure
Speaker 1: we were making holiday memories. The past year or two
Speaker 1: I've made a list mostly to winnow things down. What
Speaker 1: do my kids actually care about doing? What do they
Speaker 1: not care quite so much about? When something makes it
Speaker 1: on the list, I will do my best to make
Speaker 1: it happen. I bought Breakfast with Santa tickets for the
Speaker 1: good one, the one my daughter really wants us to
Speaker 1: go to back in October or this. It's a lot
Speaker 1: of bother to take seven people to the Roquettes in
Speaker 1: New York City. But the Christmas Spectacular is indeed spectacular.
Speaker 1: People said they wanted to go, so we will. But
Speaker 1: not all of the train displays are quite as exciting.
Speaker 1: Not all of the holiday light displays are worth driving
Speaker 1: an hour for. If we've got a lot going on,
Speaker 1: which we will with everyone's holiday concerts and such. The
Speaker 1: upside of making a holiday fun list is that I
Speaker 1: don't feel bad about not going to a particular light display.
Speaker 1: We have looked at all the things we would do,
Speaker 1: and we have said, given that there are only three
Speaker 1: weekends in December before Christmas, that this didn't make the
Speaker 1: top dozen or so it is okay to let it
Speaker 1: go if you've got a lot of holiday options. I
Speaker 1: think making a holiday fun list can help you feel
Speaker 1: more organized. You are not considering all the things in
Speaker 1: the world every time time you're looking for something to
Speaker 1: do on the weekend. You spend some time now in
Speaker 1: mid November thinking about what you have liked over the
Speaker 1: past few years and what your family enjoyed, and you
Speaker 1: choose what you enjoy most. You can certainly do additional
Speaker 1: stuff as it comes up, if it makes sense, or
Speaker 1: if you get some great new opportunity, but the good
Speaker 1: stuff you know will happen. So take some time this
Speaker 1: weekend to make a holiday fun list. Talk to the
Speaker 1: people in your life that you spend time with and
Speaker 1: ask what they most enjoyed over the past few holiday seasons.
Speaker 1: What was special, what was fun? What would they like
Speaker 1: to see repeated? You might start creating a rough plan
Speaker 1: for executing on this list. Start with scheduling the things
Speaker 1: that only happen at a certain time. The Christmas Eve
Speaker 1: service only happens on December twenty fourth. Our particular breakfast
Speaker 1: was Santa is only offered one time, so we have
Speaker 1: to build around that. But the Rockets put on multiple
Speaker 1: shows a day through the holiday season. We will need
Speaker 1: to buy tickets and plan to go to New York
Speaker 1: but we have lots of options. And then there are
Speaker 1: the things that can be more flexible, like baking cookies
Speaker 1: that could happen during any open stretch of two hours
Speaker 1: or so. But it is good to know that you
Speaker 1: want to do it so you can slot it in.
Speaker 1: If you make a holiday fun list this week, I
Speaker 1: would love to hear what's on it. You can let
Speaker 1: me know at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com. In
Speaker 1: the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's
Speaker 1: to making the most of our time. Thanks for listening
Speaker 1: to Before Breakfast. If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback,
Speaker 1: you can reach me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com.
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