This self care bingo has been great- pilates and brunch for my bestie's bday then we went shopping - went to help wrap gifts for toy donation drive

Yellow dots are the new stuff I love family and extended family and having get togethers during the year and all but I really love it when they're all back home and it's back to normal. =P Thanksgiving this year was supposed to be just me, my boyfriend, his kids and one of their significant others; my bestie, her boyfriend and his son, and my boyfriend's older brother. Just 10 of us. 10 unexpectedly turned into 18 a few days before Thanksgiving, mostly his side of the family and that had me panicked at few times. - My boyfriend and his older brother took me axe throwing late one night a couple of days before Thanksgiving to let out some stress from entertaining more people from his side of the family than we originally planned. - Combined "Give yourself permission to ..." and "prioritize myself" - Told my boyfriend ahead of time that I was going to hide out in our room for like 30 minutes on Thanksgiving after the food was out and everyone had gotten their first round of food and drink to have some time by myself before they went out for a post-feast walk and I set up for the games. For my own sanity. LOL. His kids surprised me with a goodie bag for my time alone and they put a bag together with some coloring pages, a bottle of Starbucks nitro cold brew vanilla sweet cream, Reese's pb cups, and a lavendar candle. The two younger ones made me a pillow fort too in the bedroom. I lucked out with them - they are good kids. Grateful for all of them.

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I was trying right up until Friday night!  the pearls were my squares from the last half of the month.-prioritize myself— I said no to a work trip for next week. I normally go on 95% of the trips I’m asked, but with just moving and feeling like I don’t have the house sorted, I felt like I needed to stay in town to get some stuff finished up here before the snow flies.- work on joy. I can not tell you guys how much fun I had handing out candy to trick-or-treaters from my new place. I’m moving into town from a farm in the country. I never got any trick or treaters the last decade or so. Seeing all the little ones dressed up made me so happy!-prioritize sleep— I’ve been working on this with my doc off and on the last two years. I made sure for a solid 5 days to take all of the tips he’s given me and apply them. A lot of them do not fit my lifestyle, but I made it a priority. -practice gratitude— I made up little treats for the team I work with daily for Halloween and to say thanks. A little candy, a little beauty, a little coffee card. They’re all pretty great people who don’t get enough credit. - fall fun— I raked up 16 big bags of leaves last week. That wasn’t fun. But jumping in the pile for a solid half hour… that was fun. - try or do something new - I learned how to change a kitchen faucet last week! I hope I won’t need to again, but I learned how this time instead of just pass it off to my gentleman who already knows all this stuff. looking forward to November with everyone!

That's fantastic that you were able to get a YesStyle advent calendar last year @PrettyPaint - they go quickly! I'm aiming for one big beauty advent calendar as well, big being either in terms of value, or content (24/25 days), ideally one that checks both of those boxes.

You’re very welcome @milanamiss! We also have a wellness bingo board up for the current month if you are interested in taking part - Working Towards Wellness: September 2025

Oh no, I’m sorry @ather. The two weeks will fly by and you’ll have your bath nights back before you know it!

A whole skincare routine includes both an evening (PM) and morning (AM) component, hence there is no such thing as a "morning only" or "evening only" routine. The nightly treatment stresses repair and regeneration as your skin strives to recover and renew itself over night, while the morning routine concentrates on protection and prevention against everyday environmental stressors like pollution and UV rays.

hahahaha @PrettyPaint; I'll just say this - there's probably a square that could work for that, if I were to be cheeky about it. 🤣 I'm not ruling it out ... ummm, me being cheeky, that is. 😝 Ahhhh, an unintentional French pedicure, that would be marvelous! I'm impressed you painted your toe nails white - I try every summer and I make a mess of it every time. Every. Time. Yeah, I didn't expect it to bruise or to still be there. I was trying to do some organizing and decluttering of my makeup stash and I knocked something over that created a domino effect that sent the tumbler tumbling over 😂 onto a bag and then my toe! Ouchy is right! I at least have gotten some wear out of my nail polish. There's that.