Today we have been packing up the turkeys and the pumpkins and the classy artificial autumn leaf swags — to a non-stop Christmas carol soundtrack courtesy of Pandora.  I drew up a colorful calendar for December with Holiday events cheerfully marked out in green, red, and pink (well, I needed a third color…).  I wrote down a list of my Christmas projects on a page from my newest Holiday notepad and tucked it into my planner.

And so it begins….

This is the moment when it all seems so do-able.  I am organized and prepped.  Heck, most of my Christmas shopping is done!  All that is left is the hands-on work: cleaning, decorating, baking, card-writing, gift-wrapping…and, of course, knitting.

The knitting is underway (well, most of it…) and going well.  It is just a matter of getting in enough knitting time.  I am contemplating strategies:

1) Try to get one thing finished and then move on to another project

or 2) Keep doing a bit on this one and a bit on this one so no one opens a bag of yarn balls on Christmas

1) Figure out how many hours per project and work out a timeline

or 2) Wing it, time-wise, and just keep knitting as much as possible each day

Probably the #2s are going to win out — they are more my style, I'm afraid!

So, we shall see what we shall see.  Meanwhile, I think I will go fire up my needles in front of a good old Christmas movie!