Christmas is right around the corner... even in September 🎄😉

Christmas has started in our house. I went to target the other day and they had started to put their seasonal stock out. Well long story short, I had to buy something so I plotted a way to get the kids thinking about Christmas. I like to make Christmas go for as long as humanly possible haha. As they say, 🎵 "It's the most wonderful time of the year" 🎵. Anyway I made my purchase and managed to leave the shop with one Christmas item and a pack of minions tic tacs (Ivy is crazy about minions, pepper pig and spongebob, oh and nemo/dory). The next day after a family trip to Bunnings everyone fell asleep in the car so I left the engine running and ducked inside to stage my great idea.

'You beta watch out, you beta not cry, you beta not powt, I'm telling you why. 90 days

Til Santa comes. Love jingle and candy xoxo'

 Candy has been our scout elf for the past two years but Lexi had no idea who jingle was."maybe it's candys cousin that belongs to one of our cousins" she suggested. Close Lexi, but no cigar... 

Also in the last week during out library visit I got Ivy two Christmas board books and the wiggles Christmas cd. In the space of three days Ivy has learned 'jingle bells'. Plus Lexi is having a ball reading the lyrics that come on the inside sleeve in a pamphlet. It really is 🎵 "beginning to look a lot like Christmas" 🎵
 

Happy New Year

So with Christmas all but packed away the next “event” in the Reindl house was to ring in the New Year. This included resolutions, party celebrations and preparing for the year ahead. One of my big things for 2016 is that I want to get back on top of is my dear blog. With a baby due in just two months, a very demanding and temperamental toddler that will be turning two in April, my big girl to start 2^nd grade and the Reindl man (hopefully) to return to work in Feb after over two months off mending broken bones, this year is going to be a big one and I’m sure to be pushed to my limits.

My new year’s resolution isn’t “A” resolution but many relating to each aspect of my life so here’s my list;

The 2016 reading challenge I've chosen to do i found on the pop sugar website;

Party Celebrations this year have taken a back seat in comparison to previous years due to a decrease in income over the holiday period as well as an increase in parental ‘cant-be-bothered-ness’. We are celebrating once the New Year is upon us as opposed to doing a big new years eve. Our plans for the New Year include doing some goal setting and reflection with my big Lexx, a midnight kiss with my one and only Reindl man and a family bbq and a dip in the pool at Reindl Nanna’s house on New Year’s Day.

Preparation for the year ahead involves packing away Christmas, sending my big Lexx for a week with my family in Kojonup, getting ready for back to school and then awaiting the arrival of the newest Reindl. I think packing away Christmas will be the cause of a lot of man hours, as I coil and box the 30 odd sets of lights and all the decorations that go with them. The arrival of baby Reindl will consume the next largest portion of my time as I move Ivy into her own room and retrieve all of the baby items from storage, but the one item on my 2016 “To Do” list that I’m looking forward to most is back to school. This is not only because I love the fun that the learning and organisation of a new school year brings but also that my house may be left a little more intact than it is currently with Lexx home from school as well as the Reindl man being off from work.

So tell me what does a new year bring for your household?