CREATE CL ASSIC MEMORIES. Play hooky from holiday prep for the day and go ice-skating
with your kids. Drink hot chocolate. Take lots of family photos. Build a fire. Goof off. Enjoy the grins.
SAVE IT FOR A HEAT WAVE. If you are really feeling a time crunch, don’t donate time to
help the less fortunate during holiday time. Give time later during a less hectic time of year. There are people in
need throughout every season, after all.
SOCK IT TO ʻEM. Don’t wait until the temperature hits zero to stock up on slippers and socks.
You’ll keep your heating bills down and your kids smiling if everyone in your brood has warm tootsies as the
mercury plunges.
HIT THE HAY HARDER. There’s less light during the winter. Take advantage of it and put the
kids to bed an hour earlier than normal. There’s the extra hour you need to keep some hustle in your holiday
muscle or at least wrap some presents without interruption.
POP PLENT Y OF CORN. Line up holiday movie classics in your movie watching queue. Watch
some with the kids and some with your honey in the wee hours.
DECK THE BATHROOM. Hang up some scented pomanders. Bring in lots of little candles
(beyond the reach of little hands, of course). Look for winter-scented bath indulges in Juniper, Cedar or Musk.
Sink into a bubble bath wonderland. Forget your name for ten minutes.
YOUʼLL FEEL MORE HOLLY-JOLLY IF YOU CAN GET CALM AND STAY
CENTERED ALL HOLIDAY SEASON LONG. HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
Christina Katz is an author, journalist, and writing coach, who adores the holidays. She’ll take the rush, so long as she gets
the hush, too.
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