Welcome to the end of this year, and the beginning of a new year!

During the last few days of each year, we like to prepare for the new year by cleaning up from Christmas, cleaning the house, putting away the decorations, and such.

We also like to take time this week to reflect on the past year, and look on the year ahead. Make a list of things you were thankful for over the past year (looking at the calendar may jog your memory), look at last year’s goals and think about how you accomplished them, and make a list of goals for the coming year.

You can also write a letter to your future self that is designed to be read a year from now. There are websites like FutureMe.org, which will email you on the date you set. Brett likes to write a letter to herself each New Year’s Eve and send it to herself on New Year’s Day the next year. It’s a fun way to reflect on how things have changed in a year.

Prepare for any New Year’s Eve traditions you have. Our family eats junk food like pizza rolls, pizza bites, pigs in a blanket, wings, and such from the frozen food section, and bangs pots and pans together outside at midnight, singing “Happy New Year” to the tune of the Happy Birthday song. So we’ll go shopping for our food a few days before (since the cases tend to all be empty on New Year’s Eve) and make sure our pots and pans are all clean before midnight.

We would love to hear what your New Year traditions are. Do you make lists? Scream like a banshee at midnight? Watch the ball drop on TV? Drop by the Facebook Group and let us know.

We hope that this Holiday Course was valuable for you, and helped you to reduce your stress levels! If you have any feedback for us, or any ideas for how we can improve it next year, please let us know by emailing us at soap@goatmilkstuff.com. We would love to hear from you.

Thank you so much for joining us, and we hope that you have a wonderful New Year!

Signing off for the last time,
PJ and Brett