December To-Do List.

I love Christmas stuff and since I've had a few rough years, we've decided to celebrate large this year. We are kind of non-traditional though... A and I set ourselves a budget to buy things that we want and then we set a budget to buy gifts to surprise each other with. I have most of his surprise shopping done but I have no idea what I want this year. I want new clothes but I've gained 20lbs from all of the fertility meds and I know I'm going to be bloated when I am doing the IVF meds... so I just don't know what I want to do. :(

These are all of the things that I want to do (Christmas and non-Christmas related) in December:

1. Take the horse & carriage ride through our downtown
2. Get all of the Christmas shopping done early
3. Build gingerbread house
4. Make Christmas cookies at least twice
5. Buy Christmas pajamas
6. Put up lights outside of our apartment
7. Finish filling out Christmas cards for my pen pals (Yes, I have a few of those, they're amazing!)
8. See the light show at the Courthouse, the FULL show (we only stayed for 20 minutes of it because it was sooo cold out)
9. Get our apartment in order so I can relax when I'm doing IVF related stuff
10.  Clean out the storage room at my parents house and take all of the stuff I don't use to the Salvation Army for less fortunate people



Also, I've read from all of you ladies that have done or are doing IVF about drinking Gatorade? Do you suggest I stock up soon if I'm going to start my stims in a few weeks? When do you actually start drinking it?

I'm a perfectionist and I NEED to have everything planned out so I'd rather know in advance what I need to get together to make this whole thing go as smooth as possible. :)






ALSO! I've been slacking on the commenting since ICLW ended but Sunday = suuuuper slow day at work, so I am planning on making it up to my readers! :) xoxoxoxo.