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One Hundred Dollars a Month

I am your typical housewife living in high maintenance suburbia. I have a handsome husband, 2 kids and a flock of pet chickens. I try and feed my family with $100 a month. With the help of coupons, gardening and bartering I am able to squeeze the most out of our grocery budget and still manage to have a little fun along the way.

Mavis’ 24 Days of Christmas Giveaways – Day 2

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mavis-butterfield-one-hundred-dollars-a-monthSometimes when the weather outside is frightful, The Girl and I like to spend her Christmas break in bed, warm and cozy under our down comforters. We’ll watch movies, drink cocoa and avoid getting out of bed for as long as possible. The down comforter I’m giving away today will help you copy our “lazy days of Christmas” plan!

Chezmoi Collection White Goose Down Alternative Comforter

One lucky reader will win a Chezmoi Collection White Goose Down Alternative Comforter {you’ll have to choose between a Queen or King sized}.

For a chance to win, leave a comment below letting me know how you plan to spend your Christmas break {if you have one} or your holiday. 

Just answer that one question and you’re entered to win. Life’s pretty complicated sometimes, so I like to keep things simple around here.

Rules

1 entry per person/ip address. If you cheat, you will totally be disqualified.

This giveaway ends Monday, December 2th, 2013 @6 pm PST and the winners will be announced in the Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013 edition of Mornings with Mavis. You will be notified via email and have 24 hours to claim your prize. If you do not claim your prize within 24 hours, the prize will be forfeited.

Due to shipping costs, this giveaway is open to US residents only. I do have a few giveaways planned that are open to everyone on the planet earth, so keep checking back. 🙂

Good Luck! I hope you win!

♥ Mavis

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    • Since this is my daughters last Christmas before she leaves for college, we have been taking lots of pictures of the zany things that happen, such as carrots flying from the Thanksgiving Table, the dogs staring at the Christmas tree, wrapping presents, and baking sweets. Anything to slow down time and capture the memories in a still photo.

  8. For the first time ever, my husband has off for the entire two weeks that my kids have off. Lots of family time! Board games and movies are the plan!

  9. I’ll spend my break with my kids .. with a little down time from school we will have plenty of quality time

  11. I am looking forward to turning off the phone and the computer and spending time playing games, cooking up comfort food, reading books, snuggling and taking it all in. I might do some dishes if the mood strikes! 😉

  13. I have been away from PNW for a year now. tickets are bought and I am coming to spend Christmas and new years !!

  14. We are planning a staycation. Everyone if off for almost 2 weeks. We going to go to local historical site, view the holiday displays, paint 2 rooms, and have a chili cook off.

  16. I plan to spend the holiday with my 3 kids and for the first time with my new boyfriend! 🙂 Hoping there will be lots of snuggling under the covers here!

  17. I will totally be spending lots of time at home (AWAY FROM WORK) and loving every minute of family time!

  18. I plan on spending Christmas break relaxing, spending time with the family, watching movies, and sleeping…lots of sleeping!

  22. I plan to spend it with my family! My husband is getting out of the army, and my kindergartener will be on break! I am also on a break from college. Lots of time doing holiday activities: parade, tree lighting, fantasy lights, zoo lights, and EATING! 🙂

  25. My daughter’s birthday is 9 days before Christmas, so between friends and family, birthday and Christmas, we end up having 3 weeks worth of parties! Whew!

  29. For the first time ever, neither of our parents will be spending Christmas with us. Instead, both kids and the 16 month old Grandson will be here. We’re SO excited!

  32. I plan to spend the Christmas holiday surrounded by family and watching their faces as they open presents and eat the food I make!

  33. We’ll be spending Christmas break doing fun stuff with the kids. My hubby and I work opposite days so this will be much needed family time 🙂

  34. I will spend Christmas with my daughter, granddaughters and my Mother. Can’t wait to start cooking food from my freezer that was put up this summer!! It will make a wonderful Christmas feast.

  35. Spending time with my family…especially with my parents whom have had a very trying year health-wise

  38. I plan on enjoying my tiny boys playing (just 1 & 2). This is the fisrt Christmas without my mother inlaw so we will be keeping my Husband’s spirits up as much as possible.

  39. We are just going to attend church and enjoy each other’s company! Saving up for a wedding in April so our gift budget is pretty small.

  41. We spend it getting ready for Christmas and enjoying the Season – and relaxing once Christmas is over – movies, time with friends, trips to the library to load up on books, etc. 🙂

  43. I’m a SAHM, so I don’t get a break…lol…I’ll be home with my toddler watching her experience the holiday magic!

    • I was a SAHM for 14 years, and I never worked harder, so I hear what you’re saying. I also homeschooled my kids when they got to school age which added even more. I wouldn’t have traded it, even though the insults would certainly come my way for “not working.” The funny thing was that when a school break would come around, I looked forward to just having fun with my kids, while some of the other parents dreaded having to keep their kids busy. I think it is wonderful that you are spending this time with your little one!

  49. For the first time in what seems like forever, I don’t have to work. I plan on sleeping in and doing as little as possible. 🙂

  50. We will be doing activities with our oldest child while welcoming another baby! So we will pretty much be staying home this holiday. 🙂

  51. I started a tradition when my kids were very young to kick off their break with Christmas Bingo on Christmas Eve, complete with prizes. They are 18 and 21 now, but we will still play. Then it’s always, food, family, movies, music and good ol’ relaxing!

  52. Catching up, on what I am not sure yet. We celebrate Christ during this time of year which means family, giving, and few gifts.

  53. I want to visit my sister in Oregon. If the plane fare is to high, I will stay home with my husband and our children and grandkids and enjoy Christmas together.

  54. I will be spending Christmas Break by watching my daughter have fun working on her science fair project. (It involves cinnamon applesauce ornaments)

  55. My husband will be home for the first time in 5 months, so we are just having family time for the 4 days he is home. Just the kids and us hanging out. Cant wait!

  56. I’ll be spending the holidays baking and decorating with my 4 year old daughter and fiance. My favorite thing about the holidays is seeing my daughter’s face on Christmas morning!

  58. I will be spending Christmas with my kids and their families. I can’ wait to see them all.

  59. I’ll spend most of my time catching up on homeschool with my littles. Then Christmas day, we’ll be with family at my grandparents house. Havent missed a Christmas there in 32 yrs. 🙂

  60. My husband and I always spend time with friends and family from Christmas Eve to New Years Eve.

  63. Plan to spend time with family and friends. We’ll bake cookies, work on a Christmas puzzle, play games, and enjoy each others company.

  64. I plan to get some rest, do some volunteer work, spend time with my family and grandchildren, bake for
    them and hopefully not gain too much weight!

  68. I will be spending time with my family. My husband and I will be putting together a puzzle over Christmas.

  71. Plan spending Christmas with my younger n naughtier brother reminiscing old times spent together..

  72. I will spend it with my two sons who believe in the magic of the holidays still! Cookies, crafts, laughter and fun..

  74. Rearranging rooms in our recently emptied empty nest. Re-purposing, recycling stuff. De-cluttering. Simplifying. Garden planning for 2014.

  78. I plan on spending my break from school baking cookies and other Christmas treats for my hubby and son. Also, I hope to get together with friends and our family.

  79. I am a teacher so I will spend a whole lot of quality time with my family at home and abroad since I don’t get very much time with them when we are not on break! We will make cookies and homemade presents and bake bread, listen to Christmas music and just enjoy each others company!

  81. I plan to spend Christmas holiday trying to slow down and play play play, baking cookies, playing outside in the snow and just be a kid again with my kiddos!

  82. Ill be spending the holidays in the hospital most likely….im due with our first baby December 23rd! 🙂

  84. I plan to spend my Christmas break, Christmas Eve and Day, with my husband, our kids (german shepherd and 3 cats) calling family and friends. Money is tight and spreading love is really what it’s all about so we will have warm hearts for the holidays! Merry Christmas!

  89. We’ve recently moved across the country, courtesy of the Air Force, so no family nearby. I’ll be spending it keeping all four boys busy for two weeks. Hubby should get some time off, so lots of family time on the horizon for us.

  90. I will spend my Christmas break remember that Jesus is the reason for season! With my family and loved ones.

  91. We have no family in the country so it will once again be a quiet Christmas with the four of us. 🙂

  93. I plan on spending the holidays adjusting to my new home in Memphis, since I just moved from Federal Way, WA adjusting is goingto take time. I also plan on cooking and sspending time with my husbands family.

  95. I plan to spend my holiday with my son and his family, snuggled up on the couch with my two Chihuahuas watching the gift-opening festivities!

  96. I plan to travel to two daughts homes so we can spend the Christmas season together….that’s what counts!

  97. Most of our family lives near us so we will be spending lots of time with family and friends. We will be hosting Christmas Eve and Christmas day this year.

  99. My husband’s new company he works for shuts down for 2 weeks over Christmas. He intends on getting our new kitchen installed in that first week. Hopefully this will happen!! Me and my kids will probably have to make ourselves scarce for a bit.( We actually will probably want to!!) It all will come together and we have invited all the Strays (No I’m not talking cats, although, we are fostering 3 kittens that were born on our porch, feeding and trying to trap, nueter/spay and release, the many that live around our home, all in the next 2 weeks) Well, The strays are the wonderful people looking for a place to go. We have invited several people, who have no family, and have no where to be, to enjoy Christmas day with us. That second week is going to be enjoyed by all of us, relaxing and having fun with each other and visiting family members and celebrating my five years, cancer free!! Should be magical! Feeling blessed!!

  101. The first half will be spent at home, enjoying time as a family. The 2nd half will be visiting grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins.

  102. I get two glorious weeks off and I am going to spend some of that time planning my garden for next year…figuring when to get seeds started under the grow lights and all that good stuff.

  104. I’m taking the kids and hubby to my hometown for a visit…it’s been way too long since I’ve been home for Christmas!

  105. We’re going to spend Christmas break baking our little hearts out and delivering goodies to our friends and neighbors. So fun!

  110. My only plans so far involve chasing my kids around, drinking lots of hot chocolate, and viewing as many Christmas lights as possible!

  111. Spending it at home with my honey. Part of it will also be spent with my brother and his family, Eating, playing and being loud I am sure are in the future.

  112. The kids and I will be baking gifts for family, friends, and neighbors. We will also be making and eating more than our fair share of lefse.

  113. I’ll be at home with family!! Hoping for a white Christmas, but that’s pretty rare in south Texas!

  114. My Christmas break will be spent frolicking with my five sons… it’s one of the few times they are all home at once!

  116. I plan on spending it with my family.. Cooking, cleaning and trying to relax.. LOL I am hosting Christmas this year..
    Merry Christmas!

  117. Happy Sunday! I’m a teacher so I am fortunate enough to be able to spend the holiday break with my 4 kids! Looking forward to the Christmas music, baking, and the smiling faces of my kids on Christmas day!

  118. We’ll be relaxing during break. Plus making cookies and goodies for neighbors and friends 🙂

  119. My son’s first birthday is near the holidays so we are celebrating that with family. We live in a different state than my family so I’m super excited to get to spend the holidays and a birthday wit
    h them.

  124. I teach kindergarten and am looking forward to spending some time hanging out with my own kids.

  125. I don’t have a break. The only day off is Christmas. But I have fun at work:-) My youngest likes to watch Supernatural, so I will spend some time under a fuzzy blankie watching her favorite show (not mine, but I love the time with her).

  126. I plan to spend my holiday knitting and making other gifts. Then, spending lots of time with family and resting.

  127. I plan on baking cookies and crafting ornaments while my two boys build and destroy Lego worlds!

  130. I will be almost 9 months pregnant…so my hubby and I are going to just hang out at home…spending time together before the baby arrives…. 🙂

  136. I plan on spending time this holiday break, handing out 1000’s of Christmas gifts collected for the gig harbor community to families in need. And have for the past 8 years. 🙂

  138. I plan to spend some much-needed quality time with friends and family this holiday! Thank you for the opportunity to enter your giveaway contest!!!

  140. Doesn’t get any better than spending time with my family! We’ll cook, eat, play games and watch movies. I love the slowed down pace of the holidays – I look forward to it all year long!

  143. We will be spending our Christmas break visiting with my new niece (coming Tuesday!) and adjusting to less tv time! Working on getting back to basics this coming year.

  148. I plan on spending my days off with my girlies: baking, playing board games, and drinking hot cocoa!!

  149. I’m hoping to pass down some traditions and teach them how to enjoy the holidays. Hopefully!

  151. I don’t really get a break…being a full-time mom means that I am on call ALL the time. But my husband will be home from work for about two weeks – Yay! I think we will make many many cookies.

  153. No break for this gal. I get my tonsils out 12/6 so will have fun healing up and then back to work right before Christmas!!

  154. I will spend winter break….working…sigh :(. But I’d love to come home after a 12 hour shift and snuggle under that comforter 🙂

  155. After being overseas for the past two years, we’ll be spending our Christmas with my in-laws. We’ve missed family togetherness! We don’t do a lot of gifts. Instead, we place importance on family and being grateful for what we have. It’s a little difficult with so many commercials, but we’re doing it somehow!

  156. Since I work in retail, I only have 3 days off until Christmas Day. So, on Christmas Day, which will be my first true relaxation day/break of the holiday season, I will sleep in, get up and open presents, and then truly relax and wither the day away in my pajamas.

  157. planing on spending my Christmas break… vising family, doing Christmassy things and maybe go for nice long hike in the woods.

  158. Spending the Christmas holiday with family and friends and hoping to catch up on knitting projects!

  161. Crafting, baking, cooking and game playing with my family when I am not working! I love this time of year!

  163. I just happen to have a week off for Christmas. Besides having a big dinner with my son, his girlfriend and my dad I have a lot I’d like to do to this house we bought this spring. I need to paint walls, hang new blinds, buy new curtains and hang them and clean the carpets. I don’t know if there will be enough time to get it all done. And then there’s the inside of the barn that needs repairs. I might need a vacation from my vacation or a day in bed to not do anything at all.

  164. I’ll spend the time chasing my kids as usual, but maybe I’ll keep lazy pants on and skip getting dressed 😉 I have been lusting after a white down alternative comforter for a loooong time, fingers crossed!

  166. No break for me I work from home. I’ll be spending every min I can steal to relax & shove cookies in my mouth.

  169. With my family!!! My brother moved to Florida in August and he and his family are coming home for the holidays!!!

  170. I plan on using this time to redo our pig run and move their pig. Insulating the chicken and goat house. Bake cookies for many friends and family. Go to the Oregon coast it is always nicer there then it is where we live(45 minute inland). Sheetrock my daughters room and enjoy life in our little mountain home. Oh and I almost forgot to mention the obvious 🙂 Celebrate Christ birth and enjoy the reason for the season,

  171. I will most likely only have one day off. I will be spending it with My hubby and kids.

  172. I work at a college, so get the entire looong break that our students do! I’m planning to enjoy the time off with family and my wonderful little granddaughter.

  177. I plan to spend Christmas at home with my husband and kids. We’ll bake a lot of cookies play games and Christmas crafts. Along with several cups of hot chocolate. My kids will also take the toys that they don’t want anymore (they are very good condition and clean) and give to another family. Merry Christmas everyone!!

  181. I’ll be spending part of it with my folks, and part of it chilling out and/or catching up on projext…like planning next spring’s garden!!

  182. I am praying that my granddaughter decides to make an appearance a week early so I can spend my xmas break with her!!

  183. I set a goal to complete 52 projects and read 52 books this year. I’ve got 2 projects and 5 books to do, and I think Christmas break will find me deep in a book.

  185. I plan on going to church with my husband…..then we’ll spend our Christmas with our children and grandchildren

  188. Unfortunately my husband only has Christmas day off this year…so we will be enjoying our holiday by uncomplicating our Christmas with our two little boys by limiting ourselves to only visiting one house on Christmas day (instead of three)

  190. Enjoying baking as well as sooo looking forward to my daughter, son in law and 2 grandbabies coming up from Texas to spend the holidays with us. That is the reason for the season!! Spending time with loved ones!

  193. My husband and I don’t get much of a Christmas break. But the little that we do, will be spent with family. So looking forward to it!

  194. The Christmas holidays are all about family — actually seeing some of them, talking on the phone and exchanging pictures with the ones we can’t be with this time. Some silly time, some sacred time, lots of good food, and — I hope! –minimal family drama!

  195. I am excited to spend Christmas break with my three kids. Baking with the kids, sleeping in and sledding are top on the list!

  197. Humm… staying in bed watching movies with hot cocoa sounds good. I’ll be running around with my two boys keeping our fingers crossed for so snow!

  200. We will be spending most of break at work, but we will be sledding and spending time with our of town relatives

  201. I will be spending time on maternity leave!! Enjoying baking our traditional Christmas cookies with my 7 year old son and twin newborn boys ohh any my amazing spouse of course.

  202. My only plan for the Holidays is to spend it with the people I love, Starting tomorrow I will be making snowflakes with my 4 year old Grand Daughter to decorate our windows and for her to decorate her families windows. 🙂

  203. I’m going to visit my Mom, Dad, Brother and Sisters and their Families in Chicago with my little family! Wee!

  204. I plan to spend as much time with my family as possible– playing board games, watching movies, baking, drinking lots of peppermint hot chocolate, and visiting local Christmas attractions.

  205. Unfortunately, I work a lot over the holidays but still plan on spending as much time as I can with my family. Enjoying the simple things.

  206. I plan on hopefully finding an EMT job this holiday season and spending time with my family. 🙂

  207. My son and I will spend the holidays with my late husband’s family. After Christmas, maybe go on a road trip to see my family.

  208. Celebrating the season by taking care of myself and my family. I have a cousin coming to visit this month and we are traveling to Mexico for my in-laws 50th wedding anniversary. Happy Winter and Holiday and Christmas season!

  209. we plan on making glow in the dark tree ornaments, tons of cookies, fudge, and making home made gifts. we have very little money, so everything is home made. i am making rice bags for bed warmers (its cold up here). i bought the grandkids cheap gifts at the christmas tree store clearance bin (17 cents each!) and markers and crayons at walmart during back to school sales. we are using craft paper to wrap gifts and using recycled crafts to keep the little ones busy. 🙂 hope you have a great christmas!

  210. After catching up on some cleaning, I expect to be sewing up a storm. I have some backpacking gear to make for myself, and baby clothes to make for my neice overseas and a local gal who can use some help clothing her twins. There are some amazing free patterns on line and ideas for repurposing T-shirts, including for making diapers.

  211. We’re spending the holidays in Oahu. First time ever in Hawaii. Can’t wait, but I hope it doesn’t snow while we’re gone!

  212. We will be spending time with my in-laws. Contrary to popular belief….I love my in-laws more than my own family. They complete me!!

  214. I spend the holidays with my family. We have extended family close by and love to spend Christmas and Christmas Eve with them.

  215. The kids will be off school but I work for a caterer so that means Christmas parties and lunches aplenty!

  216. Since the grandparents will be in town, I plan to stay in bed as long as I can until one of my kids comes looking for me. It’s the only time of year I can get away with it so I intend to take full advantage.

  218. I plan on spending as much time with family as possible–playing board games, watching movies, drinking lots of peppermint hot chocolate, baking, and visiting local Christmas attractions.

  219. Spending two weeks at our house in Vermont hopefully snowmobiling if the snow gods cooperate!!

  223. My husband will be off work for almost the whole week of Christmas, so excited to be able to spend time with him. We also celebrate my brother’s birthday, he was born the day after Christmas

  224. i plan on spending my time crafting, baking, listen to christmas music and watching christmas movies with my little fella.

  225. In bed, watching movies and reading good books and occasionally visiting with family and friends, 🙂 at least that’s my ideal of a grand Christmas. Oh yes, must have cookies, so maybe I’ll bake a little before the holiday.

  226. Christmas is my favorite time of year! I start by putting the tree up with my hubby and then a couple of weeks before Christmas a friend and I always bake cookies and make fudge to give away as presents. Then on the actual day we spend at home cooking a big dinner and just enjoy being around our family.

  228. No Christmas break for me but I deliver packages for Fedex and always make sure I get them all delivered Christmas Eve.

  229. Helping my boss retire from work after nearly 35 years. Learned so much from him and hope the new year brings continued patience and learning.

  230. Hi Mavis. I’ll spend the time working around my home, walking, playing with my cats, reading, and playing on my computer.

  233. Hopefully going to be catching up on sleep! Quiet time with the pup, too… This would be perfect zzzzzzzzzz…

  234. I’m a nurse, and we’re short staffed on my unit, so I’ll spend most of December at work, healing hurts and easing suffering 😉

  235. I have a pine china cabinet I’ve been wanting to paint, so I’m planning on finally getting it done.

  237. My holiday break will be with my newborn due 12/24/13! Hopefully snuggling under this cozy comforter!

  238. I plan on spending time with my family getting caught up with the ones that live far away.

  239. Since we’re alone for the holidays, my husband and I are going to go around to our local stores and drop off small gifts of cheer to the employees that are stuck working on Christmas.

  241. I am going to spend my vacation with my daughters and my husband. We spend a lot of time baking, playing in the snow and drinking hot chocolate.

  243. We will visit various family members. My husband and I celebrate our 9th wedding anniversary the 27th. My in-laws are watching the kiddos while we have an over night at a hotel in down town Holland, MI. Snowball fights, sledding, hot cocoa, board games….ect. 🙂

  244. I will spend Christmas break with my 5 kids and 2 kid-in-law and my mom. Sounds like heaven!

  245. We will be going to SC to see the daughter and her family, which includes newest grandchild!!

  246. My husband decided at the beginning of November that he wanted a divorce. So in two weeks I will be heading back to our old house in FL with our 18 year old son. We will be trying to find the happy, the jolly, and the merry this year. As long as I have my boy, I have everything!

  251. Our family will spend Christmas together, we have a huge family gathering every year with lots of food and play White Elephant. So much fun 🙂

  252. I will be home with family. My oldest is graduating this year and my fear is this will be the last holiday we are all together so we will be enjoying each other for sure!

  257. My fiance and I plan to spend a rare day off with one another and our little dog Yoda, snuggling together!

  259. My husband is a full time student who also works. I will be spending his Christmas break letting him do all the dad duties he has been missing out on lately!

  261. I will have to work most days, but I am looking forward to spending time with family and friends throughout the holiday period. I may even try out a new craft project – unless I win that comforter. In which case, I’ll be under the covers watching old movies and doing some reading. I love that in the winter.

  262. We plan on spending the holiday with a house guest from out of town and with family as much as possible.

  265. We have friends coming in from out of town that we haven’t seen in 3 years. I am so looking forward to their visit!!

  269. Christmas is going to be all over the place for my guy and i. He has to work but the best part is he will be coming home even if its late every night and crawling into a nice warm bed to me. Have to love our police, fire and ems people

  270. Both my oldest, Mia, and my youngest, Trent, will be celebrating birthdays in Dec. My daughter’s birthday is on Christmas Day. Lots of things to celebrate and lots of family to see.

  272. I am spending the first week with parents and in-laws and the second week recovering 🙂

  276. Christmas is the only break I will get from school, so I plan on taking my boys to San Francisco state park and go to the science museum, see the butterflies and the Bison!!!! How cool in the city to see Bison!

  277. I am planning on spending Christmas with my family. My son is coming home on leave before he goes overseas with the military. We won’t see him for at least a year so we must make the most of it. All my children live at home or locally except him so we are all excited.

  279. We are looking forward to going to the (live) butterfly museum in Colorado while visiting family!

  280. I am awaiting a surgery date, that I figure will put my holiday break stuck in bed with my leg elevated:(

  283. Being retired, my husband and I get to hang out together every day! However, the rest of our families and friends are still going to school or working full time jobs. So we are going to use this time to reconnect with as many of them as we can while they are off! Blessed holidays!!!

    • I love this idea! When we first moved to the Midwest a family included us in their get-together, and I still tear up thinking of their kindness. Right now we live very out-of-the-way in a little bitty house, but this is definitely one of the things I want to do when we move elsewhere.

  286. Leaving the house as little as possible while spending time in the kitchen creating, and time in the family room playing with my girls.

  287. I plan on working hard at my new job & saving vacation days for when my grandbaby is born in June.

  290. Christmas Eve will be spent with Mah Hubz family, doing our annual “White Elephant” gift exchange. Christmas Day, this year, will be spent visiting a very good long time friend of Mah Hubz that has been in the hospital the past 2 months. He is only now starting to recover from a-yet-still-undiagnosed brain injury.

  291. I plan to spend my holiday with my newlywed husband in our renovated airstream in Joshua Tree, CA! This comforter will sure come in handy for the cold desert winter nights!

  292. I’ll be spending the holidays with all my kids and grandkids that live nearby, and skyping my son and family in Las Vegas and my daughter and family in Okinawa, Japan.

  294. Listening to Christmas music, making goodie baskets for kids, grandkids, hairdresser(god love her, shes EARNED it!), mail person, in laws, outlaws 😉 and whoever else says MERRRRRRRYY CHRISTMAS! My favorite time of the year 🙂

  295. I am a first year special education teacher, so I will be at home with my two girls enjoying my first real teacher break!!

  296. I always spend time at Christmas participating in the National Audubon Society’s Christmas Bird Counts. Birdwatchers of all skill levels are welcome to join in and there is probably a count close to you. It is a lot of fun and it helps track winter bird distribution. http://birds.audubon.org/christmas-bird-count

  297. Christmas break? That is a good one, I have a 17 year old and 6 year old……planning to have lots of fun watching christmas shows, crafts and lots of baking! Plus cuddling under that new comforter!! Lol

  298. With 16 consecutive days off work for Christmas I plan on spending as much time as possible in my pajamas either under the covers or under a comfy blanket on the couch. I want to see how many days I can go without getting dressed and leaving the house.

  302. I normally don’t get a Christmas break but I’m currently on maternity leave so I’m planning on doing the same thing I’ve done the past three weeks: change diapers, nurse, sleep, repeat interspersed with running interference between a 4 and 2 year old.

  304. We are driving to Montana and Wyoming this Christmas break. My husband has not had Christmas with his brothers since we were married 16 years ago, so we are going to spend the holiday break with them this year! So excited!

  308. We just bought a new house so we will be taking time off during the Christmas holiday to move!!!

  309. We all have a week off together and plan to do a staycation traveling to different areas and playing together. Family time <3

  310. I was kinda bummed, ok, REALLY bummed that my son and his new wife were not going to be able to come home and I still am, but my inlaws are coming now, so we are super excited. My mil is THE BEST, all my friends are jealous, she is the greatest and I cannot wait.

  317. Let’s see . . . first, I shall forget all memories of the semester behind me (student grades, begone!). Then, I shall finish sewing the blankets and pajamas I have promised (and thank my lucky stars that my son decided that a bought-from-store fort is better than a fort-made-by-mom, as I seriously don’t know HOW that would have turned out). The day itself we will spend at our house with our extended family: 16 people and counting. And before and during and after, I will be reading a LOT and watching TV a LOT and surfing the web a LOT and running on trails, as I do when not busy teaching. Can’t wait! Oh, and I will be trolling the Web for recipes and advice from Mavis!

  319. That sounds lovely and cozy!
    I will be spending my break frantically trying to get my teaching credential paperwork finished so I will be elligble for the job I’ve found that starts in January. It will be so nice to have a warm cozy comforter to snuggle down under when I finally finish and I am allowed to sleep in again!

  322. Recuperating. I’m in school, hubby is in school and we have 4 kids. Busy is an understatement.

  326. Holidays are all about family….the morning with my family and the evening with the in-laws. Thankfully no one lives too far away.

  328. HI! I will be spending my Christmas vacation with my kids, since they are at the ages where they wont want to hang with me much longer. Merry Christmas!

  329. I’m a SAHM so no break for me but we’ll spend the month doing Christmas activities and projects and spend time with family!

  330. I’ll be spending my break with my family, possibly participating in some new experiences with my kids.

  331. Baking, visiting friends for Christmas Eve and other friends Christmas Day and hosting a soup luncheon for a ladies get together. A group of friends and I are going to view the Christmas Bazaar and night time light display in the forest at the Oregon Gardens.

  333. I am a theatrical makeup artist and I get to paint the faces of ballet dancers in Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Nutcracker! I start the day before Thanksgiving and go until the very end of December. I have been doing it for 13 years and it nevers get old or boring. It’s magical and the holidays would not be the same without it!

  334. I plan to bake cookies with the kiddos and when the family rolls into town some Zoo lights and other fun events… maybe some sledding.

  338. A quiet day at home with our sons. Snacking and talking. Laughing and just enjoying and being grateful.

  341. Looks like the older kids will be home from college and the youngest ones will be out of school so we’ll have a houseful.

  342. I will be spending the holiday break with my family and especially my mom, My dad just passed away and their 60th wedding anniversary was just in Nov and she didn’t handle it very well so we are going to be doing lots of extra things with her and my family coming in from Chicago. We really are in need of family time and praying for healing and grace from god almighty through this Christmas season.. God Bless you.

  344. I don’t have a break or vacation time, but all month I do crafts, baking, and winter themed activities with my sons who are now teens and still allow me the indulgence of hanging out with them.

  345. No plans other than to spend it with family. Might take a last minute trip to Mammoth Mtn…have some fun in the snow.

  347. Our little one is not in school yet so we dont have an official break but we are spending the week before Christmas with family =)

  350. I plan on spending Christmas break recovering from knee revision surgery (next week). My 4 year old total knee replacement has failed..

  351. For Christmas break I’ll be baking cookies, building a gingerbread house and watching fun Christmas movies w/my kids and grand daughters. Can’t wait!

  352. The kids are out of school and we are going to play! Sledding, skating, making cookies, just some good together time is all I want.

  353. Spending time with the extended family, watching football games and sleeping off the tryptophan…

  358. I don’t have a Christmas break, since there’s nothing to take a break from. I am looking for a job. The only break will be taking a couple weeks off from my son’s homeschooling.

  359. I have a total of 2 days off 🙂 I will hopefully stay snuggled up in bed with my husband and my two kids can jump in and watch movies all day long!!!

  362. i have no break from work but plan to spend as much time with friends, family and my puppies on evenings and weekends as i can!

  363. My husband and I plan to spend Christmas in Las Vegas with our favorite nephew and his wife who also is our favorite.

  364. Christmas Eve service at church and Christmas Day at home with our kids. We will probably go skiing during the break.

  365. I plan on spending christmas with my family but we haven’t decide in which city yet. It keeps it fun!

  366. Spend Christmas break home with the kids. Playing in the snow, drinking hot cocoa, maybe finally having a fire in our newly fixed fireplace.

  368. We have several local fun things picked out to do over Christmas Break. We are also going to see Elf the Musical with the whole family!

  370. I want to spend Christmas break not driving anywhere. I spend all week driving three kids to three different schools and I think I spend most of my days in my van. I need that time to take a break from the driving and just chill for a while.

  373. Visiting family in chilly Portland, OR. It’s become a Christmas tradition, and it’s a nice change from sunny So. Cal!

  375. Hanging out with my kiddos! I live for winter, spring and summer break- I am a teacher, but being a mom is priority one.

  382. I plan to celebrate with family and friends, perhaps go down to Downtown Disney enjoy the evening and also the Christmas lights where ever I am. 🙂

  384. I’m planning on spending the time with my son and husband, playing games, eating yummy food and relaxing.

  385. I just got married and subsequently moved into a new house, so lots of nesting, decorating, and snuggling! 😉

  386. oh I so need this! My husband was just saying yesterday how desperately we need a new one! Hmm, no Christmas break this year, unfortunately it’s busier than we’ve been in years with new jobs, but I WILL find a way to squeeze in my regular holiday baking of about a dozen varieties of cookies and treats to bring to co-workers, friends, and family 🙂

  387. I plan to do lots of cuddle/snuggle time with the kiddos under piles of blankets watching Christmas movies!

  388. Our holiday will be spent with family, playing games, eating good food, and welcoming my first nephew into the world!

  395. This year we are having a quiet Christmas! My husband is having surgery. We are going to have several close family members over for dinner and relax.

  397. I do not get much of a break this year, but the son’s will be home and helping with the cookie baking. It is hard to get it all done when you work full time!

  399. I’m a nurse, so what christmas break?! 🙂 My oldest child will be home from college for their christmas break though so with all my kiddos under the same roof we will be baking and decorating and spending lots of quality time together whenever I’m not at work.

  401. I will spend Christmas break with my hubby & our two little girls!
    We will probably watch lots of movies, go sledding & spend lots of time putting new toys together!

  402. My husband only has 2 days off for Christmas, so we’re probably going to spend it by the firepit in the backyard, roasting homemade marshmallows!

  404. Sledding with my baby girls followed by hot cocoa watching the glow of the wood stove…..

  406. My husband and I will go to our youngest daughter’s house before the sun rises on Christmas morning to watch 3 of our little grandsons open their gifts. After we leave their house, we will be visiting our oldest daughter and her 2 boys to watch them open their gifts (should be fun since one of the boys is only 2 and has just started to know about Santa). We’ll probably leave there around 11:00 and come home to a quiet house where we will prepare dinner and take a nap……….

  408. Our Christmas break will consist of lots of fun with the family — going places, playing games, watching movies.

  409. At home with my children and grandchildren, cooking, playing games, watching The Christmas Story, and National Lampoons Christmas Vacation.

  410. I have extra vacation days so I’ve been taking Mondays off to do NOTHING, It’s fabulous!

  417. The construction on our new little farmhouse will be completed in two weeks….SO we will be moving over the Christmas Break. We have already made all of our teacher gifts and almost all of our neighbor gifts so we don’t miss out on the giving season, and we are very excited to begin our new farm life on six acres! Best Christmas present EVER! (after Jesus).

  418. Ooh, I’ve been complaining that ours has lost it’s fluff for months now, perfect timing! We plan on spending our Christmas break cuddled up with our kids, playing in the snow (hopefully) and visiting family. Thank you for the chance to win!

  423. I plan to clean out my husband’s TV room over Christmas break. It’s not his fault it’s such a mess because I’m the one that keeps throwing everything in there that doesn’t have a place anywhere else. I painted my daughter’s bedroom last summer and plan to paint his TV room next summer, so I’m going to get a start on it now. Sleeping in, working out ( I just ordered T25) and spending time with our “adopted” grandkids is also on the to-do list.

  424. I love spending Christmas break with my family drinking hot cocoa and snuggled up under a sofa throw watching Miracle on 34th Street.

  425. We will spend Christmas morning at home with kids, then visit my mom at nursing home in afternoon!

  426. Well, my Husband only gets Christmas Day off, so the kids and I will try to find some fun activities to do without him. We also usually do a fun puzzle over the break.

  427. I’ll be painting the interior of my new house then moving all my stuff in. After that I’m spending the holiday with my in laws.

  429. I plan on spending it at home with my family. Snuggling up, drinking tea & cocoa, counting my blessings!

  431. I’m spending Christmas with my husband at home in front of the tree watching Christmas movies and eating Honey Baked Ham!

  433. The holidays give me time off work to spend with love ones. We have lost several people who are dear to us this year. It made me realize that every minute with someone you love is special. I absolutely love this blog and would like to wish everyone here a very Merry Christmas with their family!

  434. We only get a very small break this year, but I hope to have at least a day to spend playing board game and drinking hot chocolate. 🙂

  437. Spending it with my family, missing my mom. She became a snowbird this winter and went to a sunbelt state. This would be an awesome 80th birthday gift for her when she come home!

  438. I plan on spending the week just vegging out! I’ll prepare enough Christmas food so I don’t have to cook for the rest of the week. We’ll just hang and do anything or nothing with no guilt.

  439. First Christmas I will have off in years. Watching A Christmas Story and eating all day is my plan.

  441. I plan to spend Christmas Break (or at least my husband’s break), resting and visiting family we couldn’t see on Christmas.

  442. We are spending in at our new home on the East Coast in Philly. The weather is far colder here than back home in Vancouver, Canada!

  443. Not much traditional happening this year. We just moved & will be unpacking like crazy!

  447. I plan on staying a few extra days at my parents farm learning a few skills. This will shock everyone in the family. Growing up the neighbors didn’t know there were two children in our family because I was always locked away in my room reading. My personal goals are
    1) kill something, learn to dress it, cook it, and eat it- this will probably be a wild hog or a deer
    2) learn to catch and clean fish- then learn to cook it
    3) learn to chop and split firewood
    4) learn to start a fire in the fireplace
    5) CAN SOMETHING! I am getting a pressure canner for Christmas from my parents
    A few ideas I have for the family are
    1) learning how to use the magnesium fire starters I am giving as stocking stuffers
    2) camp (even if it’s in our yard) using only the supplies in our emergency bags
    3) go a day without electricity- this should give the kids time to enjoy the board games and books they are getting and get off the X-Box

  449. i plan to spend christmas break trying not to kill my husband. ha. he’s a professor and has the whole month off.

  451. My holidays will be spent with family of course! This will be the first year with son-in-laws- I have 2 now. I miss cooking for a big family, so lots of cooking, cleaning, cooking, movies, and hopefully some fun in the snow.

  452. I will be spending my holiday which is Dec 21st at a Yule Ball in Richmond as a part of our Medieval Recreation, the Society for Creative Anachronism. One creates a persona who might have lived in the Middle Ages, and mine is a Kievan Gypsy from @ 1217 AD

  453. I plan on relaxing and relishing my last few days living full time in our RV with my 4 kids and husband. (‘m slightly crazy)

  457. We’re going to spend our Christmas drinking Irn-Bru and trying to put together noisy toys for our kiddos! 🙂

  458. I plan to spend the holidays with friends and family anxiously awaiting the arrival of a new baby – due any time now.

  461. i’m lucky to have a live-in daughter and grandkids, so we’ll all prepare for and share the holiday together.

  467. Its my holiday and weekend to work so not a lot of snuggling with hubby and kiddos will be going on here 🙁

  468. I will spend Christmas break cranking up the Christmas tunes and making gifts for family and friends with my daughter.

  470. Taking a break from running around and just being at home with no school and no agenda. (is that possible)

  471. I will spend my holiday break baking cookies with my nieces who will fly in from Puerto Rico can’t wait!

  472. I only get Christmas off this year, but I plan to spend it with my kids and my fiance in our new place!

  473. I’ll be driving all over Texas! But that’s okay because I’ll be visiting all of my awesome family members!

  476. I have the week off so I plan to spend a few days lounging around with my girls, and then hopefully a few winter camping!

  478. i plan to spend christmas with family. thankful that my husband gets a lot of time off around the holidays.

  479. Going to daughters (who is preg. and will be due around or after that time) help out and add to the memories with other family memories and friends.

  481. My in-laws are coming down and staying with us through the holidays! It’s always a joy to have them here since we don’t have family near us the rest of the year.

  483. I have 2 weeks off so I am planning on enjoying my family and not doing a whole lot of anything!

  485. Hopefully…..making hot chocolate for my boys as they slide down our hill and skate on our “pond”!

  486. I plan to spend my Christmas break with my Honey sipping hot chocolate by the fireplace watching old movies and playing video games and I plan to spend Christmas with all of my crazy Family members!

  487. Traveling through Arizona, Nevada, and California visiting as many relatives as possible in ten days!

  491. I plan to spend the entire week between Christmas and New Years making memories with my kiddos and my hubby.

  492. I will be spending christmas with my husband and son since this will be his last xmas home he is joining the military…this will be a special one….:)

  493. I’m spending Christmas break working on my student teaching materials, cleaning up the house, and freezing crock pot meals!

  496. We plan to go to the beach with our loved ones and spend a few days catching up and playing…..

  500. I’m a SAHM so I don’t really get breaks but since my hubs will be off work for two weeks, we’ll definitely be having lots of family time. Also, I plan to sleep in at least once (I’m hopeful, but it probably won’t happen!), go out for coffee by myself and see Catching Fire 🙂

  501. Flying ‘home’ to spend the Holidays with my family. As the only one who lives out of town we miss all the ‘little’ moments so we are looking to jam pack them in a week! Thanks for all the great advice and links – I love them!

  504. I plan to spend this Christmas visiting family in Oregon and then having our children and grandchildren here for a few days : ) .

  505. I plan on catching up with relatives and our daughters. With one in college and another a sr. in high school…you can lose touch real fast. Love the slower days with NO SCHOOL!

  506. I love hearing how you are still close with your children even though they are teenagers. My children are 7 & 8 and it gives me hope that they will still want to be around during those teenage years. We are traveling with our children to go visit relatives of my husband that they and I have never met. We are trying to show them that they need to know who their family is, even if they live far away.

  509. One daughter home from college, another daughter flying in from out of state, son and his wife live locally, my husband takes vacation in December 🙂 and my younger kids out of school = family group hug! Can’t wait.

  513. I have the week of Christmas off work and will be spending time at home with my littles. I have 8-month old twins and an 8 year old. This will be my girls first Christmas and I cant wait to just be present and enjoy the week with them.

  514. We have three weeks off for Christmas break. We are planning to see as many Christmas lights as we can and make as many crafts as we have supplies for – which is a LOT ’cause Mama LOVES being crafty!

  520. If I have the time, I usually spend my Christmas break with family. But if I don’t get the time, it will most probably be on a locomotive moving freight.

  521. We live in Wisconsin and will be going to Southern California to visit my mom and brothers. I have not seen my brothers for about 3 years.

  522. I plan on traveling from Oregon to Rhode Island with my hubby and 3 and 1 year old boys. We don’t get to see grammy and grandpa nearly enough. We are also planning a NYC trip while we are in that neck of the woods. Let it snow!

  523. Hello! I am planning to spend my Holidays frugally, by curling up on my couch and reading! Listening to a little Christmas music, and watching some old black and white movies.

  524. This year will be a quiet Christmas at home, on an almost non existent budget. Hoping to focus on togetherness and Christ rather than presents.

  525. I will be with my family reading Grinch and other Christmas stories to my kiddos and at 7pm go to my
    family away from my family – ER crew I work with.

  527. With my mother’s side of the family….all 83 of them. 🙂 Having a big family is the most wonderful blessing all year long, but even more so at this time of the year b/c everyone comes home!! We all go to church to celebrate the real Reason for the season, then sing Christmas carols, play games, etc.

  529. We’ll be hosting and visiting family over the Christmas break, so a lot of cooking and dishwashing for me. I enjoy most of it … and a calm January is nice too!

  531. We will be going up north for Christmas to spend it with the side of my family that loves cold weather. Will be nice to see snow.

  533. We’re spending Christmas with family. There will be a candlelight church service, good food and skating on the lake.

  535. Plan on letting the kids sleep in and relaxing days around the house. And maybe make a few frozen dinners to add to the stock pile!

  536. Spend time with my fiance and our puppy! It’s been a hectic, but wonderful year. We will only have a day and half as our “break”, but it’s time for us to get back to the basics before we get hitched next year!

  537. I’ll be working, taking care of sick dogs and cats, during the days, and sleeping like the dead at night. I’m looking forward to taking a break in January to act like a tourist in my hometown!

  539. We are going to Yosemite with the family to experience the beauty of the winter Valley. I am really looking forward to trying snowshoeing for the first time!

  540. I plan to spend my Christmas with my family and teaching my kids about the holidays. I will be happy to have my kids home.

  541. We plan on spending the Holidays together .. we will celebrate the 5 days between Winter Solstice and Christmas 12/21-12/25 eating together( from our canned summer ) cooking together, Special Gluten free food since my daughter is sick and cannot eat flour cookies) sharing those silly holiday movies like the Grinch and charlie brown. We share a small gift each night and love and enjoy each others company. each gift has to be small, and purchased for the persons needs.. not just big ticket items.. we have limited the price to $10 or less…

    Hope your family enjoys the Holidays as much as we do.. Blessed Be and Holiday greetings…

  542. I plan to spend the holidays creating new traditions with our husband and 7 month old daughter. We’ve always traveled for the holidays and now our family is coming to visit us. Looking forward to snuggles, giggles and way too much food.

  544. I will be at home or at my dads with family. He is one and a half hours from me, so no real traveling.

  545. Spending extra quality time with my two little kiddos – Daddy’s in Afghanistan this Christmas, so they need all the extra attention they can get!

  546. I plan on taking Christmas Break off from work and spending it with family and friends. I will also be catching up on my quilting while watching old Christmas movies.

  551. I plan an enjoying having my husband around since his University classes will be over for the semester! Yay! Having an extra set of hands around for toddler wrangling sure is great.

  553. I am planning on reading a bunch of books, and one small trip to see family if the weather is nice that weekend.

  554. Hopefully spending time with my 13 year old daughter that will be as enjoyable as Thanksgiving! Absolutely LOVED this last weekend.

  555. I am going to be with most of my brothers, my parents, husband, and kids at my folks house. I’m hoping for snow!

  557. I plan on doing lots of reading,baking watching” It’s a Wonderful Life” with my family. Staying warm under blankets watching lots of Disney movies from my kids childhood,popping popcorn,drinking lots of hot chocolate and pouring over as much gardening info as i can!

  558. Home and baking with my boy. We are making pumpkin bread and cookies to give for gifts plus finishing up some fun ‘newspaper baskets’.

  562. We are planning on making gingerbread houses from scratch for the first time this year, and baking our regular favorite Christmas cookies, including pecan tassels…yum! I also dream of catching up on some reading; I have a stack of books waiting for me on my bedside table.

  564. This is the first year in a long time that I’ve saved up enough vacation to actually have a Christmas break. I am really excited to stay in my pj’s all day, hang out on the couch with my cat in my lap reading and drinking tea, bake a few goodies, and work on planning for next year’s growing season!

  565. I have to work christmas night (i’m a nurse afterall…it’s a given) but before that we are going to swoop down to Salt Lake for a day with the family! The rest of the holiday will be spent wrestling with the new gifts and learning how they work!

  573. I will spend the Christmas break with my kids and husband. Since it is already snowing here, I also see sledding in our future!

  574. I don’t have Christmas break, but if I did, I would totally snuggle under this comforter! 🙂
    Thank you for a chance to win!

  576. Bake cookies, make candies, watch Christmas movies with my kids and read our favorite Christmas books, along with celebrating the birth of Our Savior!

  577. I plan to travel to St. Louis to visit my brother and his wife. We will spend Christmas Eve and Christmas Day together. They have to work the rest of the week so I will do site seeing around St. Louis on my own for one day. Looking forward to it since St. Louie is usually warmer than Chicagoland this time of year.

  580. I am from the Pacific Northwest as well and my dad is coming up from New Mexico. He rented a wonderful beach house in Oregon and my hubby chef, awesome Italian MIL, dad and two siblings will hang out and do a 3-D puzzle of Paris. And food…….lots of food……

  581. I had to work Christmas day last year, but THIS year I get the whole week off! I will probably spend it making presents and enjoying my family! 🙂

  582. I plan on spendin’ my Christmas season lovin’ on all the people in my life – craftin’, cookin’, bakin’, etc. Gifts will be homemade from the heart.

  583. Break? No break for me, I hope to heaven I’ll be done shopping for our 7 kids, but not optimistic.

  584. I plan to spend my holiday with our kids..big and small. Also getting to know my Aunt who just moved back to the area after being gone for 40+ years!

  585. Hi Mavis, I am looking forward to this holiday because my 22 year old son will be sober for the first Christmas since 2010. He is doing so well and I am really proud of him! Happy Holidays!

  587. Christmas break with my amazing kiddos and husband. Lots of hot cocoa, Christmas movies, cookie baking, and some old fashioned home made gingerbread house construction are on our list!

  588. I’m a teacher of Middle School and a mom of a 5 year old boy, so on my break I plan on spending lots of time with my little guy (probably doing crafts, playing games, and putting together a puzzle or two), catching up my little guy’s scrapbook, visiting my family who lives a couple of hours away, and of course watching a few sappy movies and reading a good book or two!

  591. I plan to spend my Christmas Break at home with my husband and my 3 sons. Hopefully I will be under a new comforter 🙂

  594. I could so use a new comforter. Money’s been ridiculously tight since being laid off a year ago. Fingers crossed! Thanks for all you do, Mavis!

  595. Sometimes we are lucky and get the week between Christmas and New Years off at my office. If this happens this year I plan to spend as much time as possible hanging with my kiddos and doing fun things around the house. Maybe even get in some extra baking!

  597. I plan on spending my Christmas Break…doing homework. And snagging some holiday treats while I’m at it:).
    Thank you for all you do!
    Good luck with your garden! It looks beautiful so far.

  600. I plan on spending the holidays baking, decorating, wrapping and eating lots of yummy food with my family.

  601. I plan on going to a friend’s house, bringing my puppy, and COOKING (that edible arrangement will be working its way onto the table…. thanks for that awesome post, btw)! This way, she can spend more valuable time with her little ones and I will get to be “Auntie Lisa” for the day!

  602. I’ll be spending it with the grandkids, awaiting the arrival of their new baby brother!

  603. I plan to spend the holiday with my big family and preparing myself to go back to school after the first of the year.

  605. Organizing the house, (it’s gotten a bit out of control lately…HA!) and cuddling with my kids.

  606. I will spend the holiday taking care of my children and all of their activities. They both do scouting year-round and sports.

  607. We’re hoping to have lots of lazy days (hopefully under a new down comforter 😉 and my little girls and I are planning our first cookie exchange!

    Megan

  609. We plan on moving from our current house into a bigger one! What a Christmas gift to ourselves!!! Hopefully, it won’t be 40 below when we do this (I live in Fairbanks, AK)>

  610. My son is coming for the week! I haven’t seen him in 6 months! AND he is bringing the girlfriend I haven’t met yet. YIKES!

  611. I have been homeschooling our children for the past 16 years,,,,,,,,,,, so Christmas break I relax!

  612. We do not really have a “Christmas Break” here on our farm but things are a little slower this time of year so we do lots of cooking and watching our favorite Christmas movies plus lots of crafting.

  613. I will be spending the day at home with my husband, our daughter, her husband and my three Grandsons, in front of the fireplace unwrapping gifts while watching “A Christmas Story” it’s been a tradition in our house forever! At some point in the day our son will arrive with his wife and our other three grandchildren…..more unwrapping, and watching the glow on the little ones faces…PRICELESS!!

  614. I only get one day off for Christmas so will be doing baking and wrapping before then but did enjoy 4 whole days in a roww off for Thanksgiving and spent as much time in bed as possible! Read the paper, drank coffee, played with the cat and took naps. Pure bliss!

  617. Between the normal shopping, cooking and decorating for a family of six, I will be helping my husband brush up his resume and scour for employment. He was laid off a week ago from his job he’s had since 1985. It should be an interesting Christmas.

  619. I’m a nurse so I have to work thought the holidays. But I plan on helping the kids make bath salts & cookies for their gifts to give and I will be making candies, bread, jam, cashew butter, and whatever else strikes me for gifts. I just love this season!! The kids love making their gifts too. Thanks Mavis

  620. I plan to spend a lot of quality time with my husband and daughter. We will be traveling right before Christmas to attend a wedding.

  621. I plan to spend it with my family. My husband is off work. And hopefully playing in the snow with our dog!!!

  622. recuperating from a semester of teaching english–did i mention teaching college students the research paper? 😮 getting to play with my little girls again 24/7. 🙂 🙂 🙂

  623. I plan to spend my holiday at a remote Colorado Cabin with my family! Cooking and baking and eating!

  624. I plan to spend Christmas with my god-children – watching holiday movies and shows, doing craft projects, making hot cocoa!

  625. I plan to spend my two weeks off chilling in front of the fire with my doggies and a good book(or two or three).

  626. I plan on spending my Christmas break with family that I don’t see very often. My baby girl moved to South Carolina last year and will be home and so will our son and his wife who live in Tennessee with one of our oldest granddaughters. That time spent with family is the best.

  627. Now that I have a vehicle that is reliable, I hope to see my 7 yr. old grandson for the first time in 2 1/2 years.

  628. My husband is the audio engineer/production manager at a large church, so we don’t see much of him between thanksgiving and Christmas. We stay home together until he’s ready to emerge from the house.

  630. We (my husband & I) spent Thanksgiving in the hospital. I pray that Christmas we will be home with family and enjoy a healthy and blessed Christmas.

  631. I’m heading to the White Mountains for my annual trek up South Doiblehead Mountain. Amazing views of Mount Washinton capped in snow. Breathtaking!!!

  633. Our plans are to drive two states away to be with family the Sunday before Christmas and help my sister prepare for my neice’s wedding on the 28th. Hope to spending it with my 2 yo grandson, as well.

  634. I am going home to my parents for the holidays for a nice long vacation – one month. It is nice to save up leave.

  636. I plan on staying up late and sleeping in with my three teenage girls and hopefully playing in the snow that I’m willing to come and make our winter even that more special!!!

  638. My kids’ Christmas gift is redoing their rooms, so I will be redoing my son’s room! While waiting for the paint/stain/glue/mud to dry, we’ll be playing games and doing a 3D puzzle. 😀

  639. My family will be spending the holidays at home this year…relaxing, playing board games, building puzzles, watching movies, playing outside, and maybe I’ll even have some time to work on some crafts!

  641. We plan to spend Christmas eve with my in-laws and Christmas day at home…lounging around, doing nothing! My favorite. 🙂

  646. I am presently bed-ridden with lots of pain…I would LUV to be warm under this comforter! Blessings to you and your family…

  647. Well, were a military family spending Christmas in Missouri 🙂 I think the biggest plan we have for the holidays is hanging out with each other. We won’t be getting to visit family this year so stay-cation is the best way to go. We’re generally just happy to spend Christmas break together, hanging with the kids, dog walking, and neighborly fun. Of course cooking (hubby), baking (me and the kids), and lots of movies! Best was to go for sure 🙂

  648. This is my husband’s and I first Christmas as a married couple. We don’t ‘technically’ have a Christmas vacation, but we both managed to get a couple of days off to head to the Sunriver Resort near Bend, OR for a quick winter getaway. Can’t wait!

  649. I plan on making gingerbread houses with my granddaughter and spending Christmas with the whole family, eating, laughing and just enjoying being together. If I win the comforter I’m going to give it to a needy family that I know, who will appreciate it.
    Merry Christmas to you and your family, Mavis.

  653. I will have dinner and gifting with my family on Monday, then enjoy the rest of the week. It will be wonderful to relax and just hang!

  656. I have Christma Eve at my house with family and friends. I serve an easy buffet dinner and then we all go to church where one of my daughter’s and I play in the handbell choir. I love the music and candlelight at the Christmas Eve service.
    Christmas Day is for lazing in jammies, watching Christmas movies and eating too much fruitcake.

  658. If the temps are positive, we will cross country ski and maybe do some downhill also. I want to do a big gingerbread house decorating party with the kids and friends, and I would like to have a Christmas tea for just the ladies and sing Christmas carols!

  661. Thanks Mavis for a fun year of new ideas and a chance to visit with you daily. (I don’t know how you do it, the garden gig and then a blog on top of it). I plan on spending the holidays preparing goodies for all my family and then celebrating on the 21st with as many of them as can make it. Since we use wood heat, a nice comforter would be a wonderful way to snuggle up every evening and then not want to get out of bed in the morning.
    Best wishes to you and your family for the holidays.
    Liz

  663. I plan on remembering all the people close to me that are gone and to make my family feel loved

  664. I am a teacher (college and elementary) and I work at my family’s photo studio, and a church choir and handbell director. I look forward to Christmas break every year because I might actually get a couple of days off…. maybe. 🙂

  665. I have 2 weeks off for Christmas break, We are planning a Christmas party/craft party for the children with friends. Christmas day we usually stay home and have our own family gathering, then dinner. The next few days usually cleaning up and playing with the new gifts. We always take time to remember what Christmas really means and thankful for those who taught us and who are no longer with us.

  666. Will be spending Christmas at the lake with the family. Love being with my two small grandchildren as they wait for Santa. Hope to be able to do a little sewing and maybe finish some art work. Merry Christmas everyone!!!!!!

  667. I”ll be cooking and cleaning and making lists and…. kids (31 and 33,) their partners and their dogs are all coming home… it’s going to be wonderful

  668. We will be spending time with family and just resting up from a busy semester for my husband who is a teacher.

  669. Relaxing as much as possible between working (saving lives!) and traveling to the in-laws to visit the saguaros for New Year’s. Yeehaw! Can’t wait!

  670. We like to cuddle up with some hot chocolate in our special Christmas mugs and watch movies as a family. Also plan on going tubing at least one day.

Mavis Butterfield Etsy