Good morning! I hope you all had a very merry Christmas!
I just wanted share my recap of this year’s 24 Days of Togetherness. I did a pretty good job of documenting each activity that we did together (the corresponding posts are linked below), but there were a number of moments that never made it onto the blog, so I included them below so Mal and I can better remember those times in the future.
- December 1: Bake sugar cookies
- December 2: Give each other 10-minute massages
- December 3: Dress Murphy in holiday garb and snap a photo of him
- December 4: Get Lime Leaf for dinner
- December 5: Listen to โA Christmas Togetherโย (John Denver & The Muppets)
- December 6: Drink hot cocoa
- December 7: Make a snowman
- December 8: Make holiday-shaped pancakes
- December 9: Perform an anonymous good dead
- December 10: Watch a holiday movie together (we watched Love Actually)
- December 11: Buy a holiday decoration for our house
- December 12: Buy each other $5 gifts
- December 13: Buy a Christmas present for Murphy
- December 14: Play Words with Friends
- December 15: Buy a tree topper for our Christmas tree <— we never did this one because we’re bums
- December 16: Drink eggnog
- December 17: Two truths and a lie
- December 18: Buy a Christmas tree
- December 19: Tell each other 3 things we’re excited about
- December 20: Have a fire
- December 21: Write Christmas poems for each other
- December 22: Wear red and green all day
- December 23: Make a Christmas drawing
- December 24: Buy something for Baby H
And here are the ones from the days leading up to Christmas:
December 17: Two truths and a lie
I can’t remember what all of our truths and lies were, but I tricked Mal with one of mine, which included a lie about โalmost crying because he beat me at Words with Friends.โย (We’re still playing.)ย Haha!
December 18: Buy a Christmas tree
Um, I have no idea why this one was in there, but we did itโยฆ back on December 3rd.
December 19: Tell each other 3 things are excited about
- Mine: Baby Haupert, Christmas, and our Babymoon in February (we’re going to Savannah).
- Mal’s: Baby Haupert, his school vacation, and seeing ONCE next month.
December 20: Have a fire
It was like 50 degrees outside on Friday, so we never had a fire, but we had plenty of them this holiday season!
December 21: Write Christmas poems
December 22: Wear red and green all day
I’m so happy we picked this one on Sunday morning because it worked out perfectly with the Jingle Bell 5K! (My sports bra was lime green!)
December 23: Make a Christmas drawing
On occasion (such as long plane rides or waiting at the doctor’s office), Mal and I play this drawing game where one of us draws a crazy shape and the other person makes it into something with their drawing skills. We decided to play this game for โMake a Christmas drawingโย on our kitchen chalk board while cooking dinner. (My shape is on the top and Mal’s is on the bottom. Doesn’t his look a lot like mine? What a copy cat.)
The final product:
Mal is quite the little artist, isn’t he? My gingerbread man is just weird. Haha!
December 24: Buy something for Baby H
(I’ll show you guys next week!)
Questions of the Day
Did you and your family do 24 Days of Togetherness this year? If so, what were some of your favorite days?
32 Comments
What a fun game and both pictures turned out great! I hope you had a wonderful Christmas!!
Merry Christmas! You guys are both pretty clever, I don’t think I would have come up with that, let alone draw it so well. I am impressed.
I love this tradition I can’t wait to do it one day!!!!!
Merry Christmas! Love the togetherness idea. I have been seeing this a lot lately and love it. Congrats on baby Haupert! Our daughter is due on June 3!
Wow cute chalkboard pics! lol
Too fun! I want to talk hubs into doing this next year!
Your drawings are awesome! That game sounds really fun :).
You guys are awesome artists!! That’s such a fun idea too.
I’m really liking this 24 Days of Togethernessโโ I’m going to have to try it one year!
How exciting that y’all are coming to Savannah! I live there ๐ You should try out The Green Truck Pub. Lots of craft beer (for mal of course) and local produce and beef burgers. Includes homemade pickles and ketchup too! Y’all should stop by Crossfit Shear force too if y’all are looking to get a workout in during (I know y’all like trying out boxes in other cities/states).
Thanks for the recommendations!
Oooh a babymoon!!! What a great idea ๐ And I love your game of drawing while waiting for an appointment or on a plane… I’m totally taking it for the next time I’m sitting somewhere bored!
I just got to town on Monday but we’ve done a family movie and are doing a nice downtown chicago adventure tonight.
Love this tradition! Next Christmas, Christian and I will be spending our 1st Christmas as a married couple together and I think this would be such a fun tradition to start! PS- WOW Mal is a great artist!
I just wanted to let you know I got a few junk headbands for Christmas, and I’m obsessed already. Thank you for posting about them! Excited to use one in a WOD today ๐
Yay!!! So glad you like them! รฐลธหโ
That is an awesome game!
I really wanted to participate but our schedules got the best of us! We did fit in a few things like baking cookies, christmas shopping, and enjoy the holiday lights! ๐
Thanks for some fresh ideas for the advent calendar. Love the red and green day!
You and Mal look so happy! I just started blogging and couldn’t stop myself from telling you that! P.S. I like your drawing sooo much. Gotta thing for gingerbread men… So cute!
We made a good effort but some days we missed. My favorite was a planned evening, but we went to see It’s a Wonderful Life at an old theater that plays it for free one day during the season, even the concessions were free (my bf’s fav part). Seeing that movie made me really remember what we should be focusing on, I’m sure I’ve seen bits and pieces of it before but never really sat through the entire movie. The whole night was magical ๐
I think this is such a cute idea!
Awesome drawings from you both!!! Did you write Christmas Poems?
Yep! ๐
There is a show in Australia called Mr squiggle which is basically the game you were playing. I also really like that game
Tina, you kindly gave me recommendations when I had a trip to Boston so I’d love to share my favorite spots from my former hometown, Savannah. Forsyth Park is a must and a great place to run/stroll. There’s an excellent natural foods market at the end of the park, called Brighter Day, next to it is a great coffee shop, The Sentient Bean. My favorite restaurants are Green Truck (just saw someone else recommended it above) and Cafe Florie (both use local foods). You might enjoy a trip to Back in the Day Bakery for something sweet or lunch. Fancy restaurants that are great: local11ten, noble fare or alligator soul. Some folks like Mrs. Wilkes dining hall for a southern food experience. Most of the restaurants near the river are to be avoided. Hope you all have a great time!
Thank you!! รฐลธหโ
those were really cute drawings! I need to play that game!
This was an awesome idea and I think I’d love to do that next year. I love the chalkboard drawings!
Yay for Baby Haupert! I’m with Mal, I love ONCE. I really would like to see it on Broadway. ๐
We got married on November 15th, so before we left for our honeymoon I made my own jar. We had so so so much fun doing each of our little things (I think we spent way to much at Walgreens though!) As a pretty new blogger I also had a blast writing about all of it! Thanks for the idea!!!!