12 Days of Christmas... 2020?

Hello, lovely souls! 

I hope you’re all doing well and hanging in there as we welcome in the holiday season at the close of a long, tiresome, worrisome year. 

This hasn’t been the best year for many of us. Between a pandemic, civil and political unrest, and a wacked-out election (for my US homies, anyway). Due majorly to this fact plus a hectic schedule, I’ve been debating lately whether or not we should have the 12 Days of Christmas blog party again this year. 

And God promptly smacked me upside the head for continuing down this thought-track. 

“You’re not going to celebrate the birth of my Son because it’s inconvenient for you? You’re skipping the Christmas festivities you love so much because you ‘just don’t feel like it’?” 

(Talk about a dose of humility.) 

And then He proceeded to knock all other possible excuses out from under me. Work? The business I work at closes for the season a few days before the party begins. No reasoning there. School? I have finals the first two days of the parties, but that’s not a legitimate excuse. Even professional-procrastinators like me study before the day of the test...usually. 

All that to say... 

We're doing this. I got over myself. It’s happening—assuming at least a few of y’all are game. (Can’t do it all by my lonesome… that would be boring... I asked on Instagram the other day and got an almost 100% positive response, so like... where y'all at...) 

But hey! The party will run December 14th through the 25th, just like it was every year since 2015. (Please don't go back at look at our sad beginnings—I cringe just thinking about it.) Sixth year in a row, woot woot! I'm excited. :P 

If you're interested in joining, we would LOVE to have you. Legit all you've got to do to get involved is 1) email/message/comment and let me know you want to take part and 2) start planning/prepping your posts. This is later than I used to start planning, but we still have like 26 days, so we totally got this. 

Back to what I said about Instagram—if you have social media but not a blog and still want to participate, you're totally welcome. Just message me or something so we can work out details and figure out the best way for me to direct readers to your content.

I'll be posting every morning through the 12 consecutive days, and you're all welcome to post as many or as few times as you like. Remember that this is about Christmas, but beyond that, you can post whatever Christmasyness you want... If you need inspiration, you can find all the previous 12DoC posts here or a list of popular ideas for post topics in the past here. 

So uh,... yeah, I think that's all I need to say right now. Any questions?

who's in?!