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.
WINTER
CAMP
January 2-4
Kindergarten-3rd Grades
9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Daily
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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