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Monthly Musings: December 2025

 Happy Wednesday! Posting a day early, but I will link up on Thursday with Holly and Patty for the LAST Monthly Musings of 2025!!

1. What holidays do you celebrate? Advent/Christmas!

2. Scale of 1-10-- how into the holidays are you this year? Be honest.

I love the "be honest" aspect....I really do LOVE the holidays, though! I'm going with 10/10!

3. Favorite things to make/bake during the holidays? Fudge, cookies, sausage balls, dips.....all the yummy foods!

4. Favorite holiday movies?

I shared this a couple years ago, and it's still pretty spot on!

5. Most random holiday tradition? I have several children's Christmas books from years past, and I always sit and read a couple after I put out my decor. Just me, to myself. Kind of random, I guess!

6. Are you hosting for the holidays? NYE or day? Nope. Nope. Nope. Ha!

7. Favorite way to ring in the new year? 

With good apps, drinks, and I like to stay up until midnight!

8. Any new year's resolutions or word of the year? Read more! I think I may try to read the "Read With Jenna" pick every month. *Try*. As for a word, I usually pick a few at random, but I haven't done that quite yet.

9. Favorite holiday songs? A mix of classic and new. Anything from "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" (has to be Andy Williams!) to "A Nonsense Christmas" by Sabrina Carpenter! 

10. Favorite holiday memory?

When I was a kid and still believed....My favorite thing to do was track Santa on Norad. That is something I always think about each Christmas! (I will always believe in Santa Claus, for the record😉....and praise Jesus for braces😂)

Well, that was fun! I hope you all have a very MERRY day!!

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  1. Kim CarberryDecember 18, 2025 at 6:04 AM

    Christmas really does have the yummiest food! I love your list of Christmas movies, they are a lot of my favourites too.
    Aww! What a sweet photo of you when you were little. My girls used to love tracking Santa on Norad.

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    1. Everyday MaddieDecember 18, 2025 at 6:57 PM

      Aw, thank you Kim! I hope your family has a wonderful holiday season!

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  2. HollyDecember 25, 2025 at 8:48 AM

    Love the throwback pic of you and your sister and I also love your random tradition of reading those books-so sweet!

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    1. Everyday MaddieJanuary 3, 2026 at 2:01 PM

      Thank you Holly! I hope you had a wonderful holiday!

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