Spending Your November: A To-Do List for Adventuring Through the Month.

Happy November! November is such a magical month because at the beginning of it, we get full-blown fall, and by the end of it, it's time to celebrate Christmas. If that isn't a good month, I don't know what is.

There are 30 amazing days in November, and you get to decide how to spend them. Here are my suggestions:

1. Drink a Caramel Apple Spice Cider.

2. Participate in NaNoWriMo. 

3. Swing by Trader Joe's and pick up some fall goodness. I especially recommend the pumpkin butter, the pumpkin chai latte mix, and the pumpkin roobios tea.

5. Make a list of soups, hot drinks, and other November goodness you want to make. If there was ever a month to make soup for almost every meal, it's November.

6. Practice Thankfulness all month long. It's not just for Thanksgiving!

7. Remember that sometimes, the best part of the holidays is just being. We can get so caught up in making holiday plans and wanting to make sure we get to do everything we love about a certain season, but sometimes the best part is just relaxing, soaking up all the best parts of fall and Thanksgiving.

8. Get a fall picnic blanket. I realize that in some places, it's starting to get too cold for picnics, but here in Florida, we're just hitting prime picnic blanket weather. Even if it's too cold where you are, get a picnic blanket, light some candles, and have an indoor picnic--it's just as fun!

9. Make apple-cider sangria. Perfect for your picnic! Also, please drink a glass for me. I love this baby, but I miss fall drinks.

10. Plan a Thanksgiving date. A thanksgiving celebration for just you and your boo!

11. Plan your Thanksgiving. Are you traveling? Having company? Cooking something? Make your game plan!

12. Take some time for yourself and reflect on everything you're thankful for about 2015. Every November, I sit outside with a cup of pumpkin coffee and my journal, and write down the biggest things I'm thankful for since last Thanksgiving.

13. Watch A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.

14. Light some fall candles in the morning before turning all the lights on. I've been doing this in the mornings while I drink my coffee and it is so cozy. Second best thing to having a fire place!

15. Check your fall list-anything you really wanted to do that didn't happen? Don't pressure yourself to get everything done, but was there something you were really looking forward to that just hasn't happened yet? Do it!

16. Make a list of everyone you need to buy Christmas gifts for. 

17. Pick up a winter candy apple lotion from Bath & Body Works. 

18. Make a Thanksgiving craft. Place cards for Thanksgiving dinner, or a banner that says thankful, or whatever you want!

19. Bundle up and go for a walk. Walks during chilly weather just make you feel alive.

20. Go crazy and really clean your house before the holidays. You'll be so happy you did!

21. Make a list of Black Friday things to be on the lookout for. 

22. Write Thanksgiving letters or cards to the people you love. 

23. Spend an afternoon with your significant other and talk about what you're thankful for. Go to a park or a coffee shop and talk about why you're thankful for each other.

24. Start a Thanksgiving tradition. 

25. Watch the Macy's Day Parade. 

26. Celebrate Thanksgiving! 

27. Watch Elf! My family always watched this Thanksgiving night to celebrate the start of Christmas!

28. Break out the Christmas decorations! The day after Thanksgiving, of course.

29. Get your first red cup of the season! White chocolate peppermint mocha! It's Christmastime, people!

30. Catch up on the sleep you lost over Black Friday by laying in bed, drinking hot chocolate, and watching Christmas movies. Hello, perfect day.

How will you be spending your November?

Spending Your November: A To-Do List

Halloween is over and November is here! 

Isn't it crazy that Thanksgiving is this month?! There are 30 days in November, and they are going to fly by. How are you going to spend them? I have some suggestions.

1. Make Thanksgiving plans! 

2. Go on a walk while the sun is setting. 

3. Practice thankfulness. November is a month that makes it easy to remember to be thankful. Take a minute every day this month to write down something you're thankful for.

4. Write something. It's National Novel Writing Month! Even if you're not doing NaNoWriMo, take advantage of November and write a little more than you normally would, whatever that looks like for you.

5. Pick something new to make for Thanksgiving, then have a trial run. Thanksgiving food early? Yes, please.

6. Take advantage of the cooler weather. Have a picnic, go for a walk, or eat dinner outside. Just bundle up and enjoy the cold.

7. Start planning out your Christmas list. Who all do you need to get gifts for?

8. In honor of Thanksgiving, write letters to the people you love, telling them why you're thankful for them. 

9. Take a night off and rent a comedy you've been meaning to see. 

10. Read a C.S. Lewis book. 

11. Set one goal that you want to have completed by 2015. Not a whole set of goals, because that's overwhelming. You have two months left in 2014--one goal is definitely doable.

12. Buy the new Taylor Swift Album. Listen to it approximately 87 times on repeat, then tell me what your favorite song is so we can discuss.

13. Get crafty. You know all those DIY projects you keep pinning? Do one of them!

14. Read a whole book. If cooler weather doesn't make you want to cozy up and read a good book...well, I don't know what to say to you.

15. Throw stuff away. You're probably going to accumulate a bunch of stuff over the holiday season. Get a head start on that and throw away junk that's just taking up space.

16. Spend an afternoon in the library. Check out a book you've never even heard of before.

17. Watch A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.

18. Make homemade soup. Find a soup you love, and your winter months just got ten times better.

19. Think of a Thanksgiving tradition you'd like to start. Last Thanksgiving was my first married one, and it was so much fun starting our own traditions.

20. Make hot chocolate. Not the kind in a packet, either. Get fancy.

21. Have an Audrey Hepburn movie marathon. 

22. Think about what you most disliked about your life in 2014. Was it your job? Your attitude about life? The lack of time spent on certain things? How can you change that in 2015?

23. Plan a surprise date. The holiday season can get super busy super fast. Take the time to make your man feel special.

24. Make a list of Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals you want to try and get. 

25. Make apple cider mimosas. Substitute orange juice for apple cider and you've got a festive way to toast!

26. Watch the Macy's Day Parade.

27. Get dressed up for no reason. Who says a normal night at home isn't a good reason to break out the curling iron?

28. Watch Elf to kick off the start of the Christmas season!

29. Get your first red cup of the season at Starbucks. White chocolate peppermint mocha, please.

30. Add to (or start!) your Christmas decoration collection. I may or may not have some really pretty things going up in my shop tomorrow that fall into this category. 

What are you most excited about this month?