Spending Your December: A To-Do List for the Best Month of the Year.

1. Watch ELF. If you only do one thing on this list, it needs to be watching this movie. It's just the best ever. 

2. Decorate gingerbread men. Or a gingerbread house. Or a village, whatever. 

3. Go on a Christmas light scavenger hunt. 

4. Decorate for Christmas. Whether you go all out with the decorations, or just buy a $3 mini tree from Target, make your house a little more festive!

5. Send a Christmas card. 

6. Master some of these gourmet hot chocolates. 

7. Play Dirty Santa. If you have to throw a Christmas party in order for this to happen, then do so. 

8. Get rid of the things in your house that you don't love. Christmas is way more enjoyable without the clutter. 

9. Take advantage of the inspiration of Christmas and WRITE. If you finished NanNoWriMo, start editing! If you didn't, keep writing what you started.

10. Make a playlist of your favorite Christmas songs and play them until you're absolutely sick of them. Then play them some more, because it's CHRISTMAS. 

11. Take embarrassing Christmas pictures of your pets. And send them to all of your friends. 

12. Buy a gift for someone who probably isn't going to be getting a lot of gifts this year. Give it to them in secret. 

13. Stay up late watching old Christmas movies. 

14. Go ice skating. 

15. Kiss under some mistletoe. 

16. Buy yourself new pajamas to wear on Christmas Eve. And then stay in them all of Christmas morning. 

17. Fill a stocking with silly things from the dollar store. Give it to your best friend or husband or neighbor--it's just fun to buy little trinkets for someone!

18. Look up Christmas shows in your town. A play or a ballet or an old movie--most towns offer something for free this time of year!

19. Make S'mores.

20. Watch The Grinch...

21. ...And The Holiday. 

22. Bundle up and have a late-night picnic. Complete with hot chocolate, of course.

23. Go on a Christmas date with your boo. Whether you go all out and do dinner and drinks, or you just go for a walk with some coffee--I vote you get dressed up in sequins either way.

24. Make cookies for Santa. 

25. Take tons of pictures, but make sure you're staying present. Your phone is great for capturing the memories of Christmas--just make sure you don't get sucked in to focusing more on your phone than the actual moment. 

26. Make a list of your favorite memories of 2014. 

27. Do one thing that you swore you would do this year, but haven't got around to it yet. Haven't gone for a single run all year? Now's your chance. 

28. Buy a new journal for 2015!

29. Go for a walk and enjoy the last of the Christmas decorations. 

30. Write a letter to 2014. A love letter, a thank you note, a hate e-mail...anything goes. 

31. Welcome 2015 with a toast!

What's your favorite part about December?