What I would like to do in December ☕🍪🤎📜🧸

Good morning everyone and happy December! I hope your month is filled with festive delights and many, many delicious joys. I opened the first window of my tea advent calendar this morning – a gorgeous praline and hazelnut black tea from La Compagnie des Thés, a brand I’d never tried before (I think an advent calendar is the perfect way to taste their offerings!) – and I felt like chatting about what I would like to do this month, the last of the year.

When it comes to solid plans, I know I’m going to be visiting London over the Christmas period and then enjoy a string of free days at home with my sweetheart – the best part of the whole year – but to be perfectly honest with you, I’ve been feeling restless for a little while. I pick up books and don’t finish them (one I finished and loved was The Muse of Maiden Lane by Mimi Matthews, a historical romance between a wheelchair-bound artist and his muse, gorgeous writing), I start video games and never play more than an hour (I wanted to play Hogwarts Legacy all over again and suddenly didn’t) and the one thing that kept me riveted this weekend was binge watching the Netflix documentary about the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders which I thoroughly enjoyed (I’m thrilled it’s coming back for a second season, I’m rooting for all those girls and the dancing is incredible!). I honestly don’t know what I’m in the mood for right now. I think I feel just a little bit drained from this year and need the most comforting things that’ll require nothing of me but to just be.

Here’s what I think I’ll end up doing this month –

Read Harry Potter in bed while sipping hot chocolate and enjoying some panettone – just reading this sentence makes me so happy. I did a little bit of this Friday night and it was blissful. Harry Potter has been the only constant in my life since I started reading the series in 1999 – I’ve read it almost daily for the past 15 years and these stories and characters have been my home almost my entire life. It feels like a cocoon to have this in my life and I’m so incredibly grateful for it.

Watch a lot of Disney princess films and shows. I’ve always been a huge fan of Disney princesses but making it a point to focus on them this year has brought me so much happiness. I want more of that right now, I can see myself watching ten episodes of Sofia the First today and be so happy and fulfilled, ready to start a new week.

Settle into the Christmas season. I don’t know what that will look like – watching Christmas films, watching Hallmark films, read Christmassy books, decorate the house or a combination of all of these – but I’m so happy we’ve reached the Christmas season, it’s my favourite time after Autumn (which forever has my heart) and I’d like to immerse myself in it and enjoy it to the full.

Whatever you do, I hope you have a fantastic time and I’ll speak to you very soon. All my love. ⋆꙳•❅🎄❆•꙳⋆