Do you do December Daily when your holidays aren't special?

Even if the events weren't 'spectacular' I think you would still appreciate looking back at them in future years. Maybe you will see it as a year of calmness mixed in with busier years...? I'd say go for it! Maybe try a 4x6 album? Those look so cute! I have too much stuff I want to put in my album to do it as a 4x6, since I have 2 little kids, but I definitely want to try a 4x6 album for something else soon!

Just working on the pages makes me feel more "Christmas-y". We had a few hectic years and those pages helped me feel like I was participating in the season, not just driving past it.

I have a young child, so for me it's all special even if it's mundane. These years have already blown by so fast, it feels like yesterday and we were celebrating her first Christmas. It's so great now because she finally gets it and it's all fun and exciting for her, and her joy is contagious. I remember being a kid and that feeling of anticipation that was so thick in the air at this time of year. The days went by so painfully slowly back then, and now it seems like I barely blink and the whole thing is over!

I do a lot of the same things every year too. But I still document those things. It's been fun to look back over the years and still see how things were.

Hum, how about the christmas lights you see every year? That special house, the town lights, the inside of Target when it is packed, pics of your fav holiday food packages, a pic of you in the full length mirror when you are dressed up for that holiday party. Keep in mind your holiday party may be much like mine. A cozy pj set, a bowl of popcorn and a holiday movie, alone. ( yes i have to wait for my kids to go to bed)

Yes, some of them, maybe most of them will be repeats. BUT! It will not be in vain. That favorite home decorated? It might not be there next year. Those home owners could move! The town lights? They will have changed in 10 years. Holiday food packages? Rip gingerbread marshmellows, you were one of my favorites.

Lets say in 10 years, you have whipped up 10 albums. Take them and consolidate them. Take out the 9 of the ten pics of your favorite decorated house.

And boring? Who is going to care 100 years from now what barbie my kid got for christmas, but your album? What a snapshot of what the real holidays were during this time frame. Why you could be the next Laura Ingalls. All she wrote about was every day happenings. Those things were happening to everyone. The difference was she documented them.

I also want to add I plan on my daily december to be 25-31ish pages of holiday memories. Daily? Ummmm, my brain doesn't work that way. I will add the numbers later.

I'm as boring as they come. We do nothing special at all but I'm doing my first DD this year. Also go on Pinterest and type in "December Daily Prompts" you will get tons of topics to cover for people who don't have a lot of things going on.

You think your album will be too samey but you may be surprised at how different some stuff and rituals have changed in the last year!

I don't do December Daily bcz it seems like it would be too hectic for me, and I need to put my efforts towards baking and things like that. But this year I am attempting to journal daily and pull a few important stories out of the season to scrap.

I sorta did this in 2012 with a paper bag album and just scrapped specific days based on events.

I think making it work for you makes total sense. I don't have kids, so there's not always a whole lot going on related to Christmas for me.

I am going to try to post my stories on my blog and for now I think I will just use a small notebook to record things. I also journal in a phone app called Day One. Then I will decide how to make layouts. I had an idea to make a two page layout and just put one little line about each day, so may still try that.

Seriously, I'm a grown adult with no kids and I love doing this every year.

I don't do a DD, but I've wanted to do a holiday album highlighting are memories. This year is CRAAA-ZZY! to say the least. Everything is so different. If working on pages making you feel more Christmas-y, I'm thinking this would be good for our family. Thanks!

I did my first DD in 2013 with every intention of doing one last year. I don't know if last year had been especially busy, hectic or what, but I didn't do it. I have no small children at home, my grandchildren aren't small anymore and December is ALWAYS so hectic....yet I have to remind myself that despite all that, I enjoyed making the 2013 DD.
Since there isn't Christmas activities every day, I created pages documenting my favorite movies, favorite carols, took pictures of gift wrapping. Since I make some of the gifts, I took pictures of that, too. I also love to save personalized Christmas cards that I receive; i.e., the ones with letters and the photo cards, so I created a pocket page in my DD that year and put those in it. All in all, it turned out really well and I love it...but I just can't bring myself to start another one.

Go figure.