5 Ways to Slow Down and Enjoy Christmas
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As soon as December hits, the holidays can come and go in a blink of an eye if you don’t take a moment to slow down and enjoy Christmas! Here are five easy ways to make the most of your holidays.
1. Drive Around to see Christmas Lights – Take a detour, drive the long way, or take special drive just to look at the lights. This doesn’t have to be a one time event!
2. Decorate for the Holidays – Hang the lights, put up the tree, and make some homemade ornaments. The earlier you decorate, the sooner it will feel like the Christmas season has begun. Continue to add decorations throughout the holidays by stringing up holiday cards.
3. Make Hot Cocoa – End the evening with a warm mug of hot cocoa! It’s easy to make and will warm your belly for a good night’s sleep.
Hot Cocoa: Combine 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder, 1/2 cup sugar, and 1/3 cup hot water. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Boil for 1 minute. Stir in 4 cups DairyPure milk and heat, do not boil. Remove from the heat and serve!
4. Read Christmas Stories – Take 15 minutes each day to read a Christmas story as a family, sharing all the classics.
5. Bake Christmas Cookie – Mix, roll, cut, bake, frost, and decorate sugar cookies! You’ll spend a few quality hours together and end with a yummy treat you can enjoy as you countdown to Christmas.
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Driving around to see the Christmas lights is always a huge hit with our family! It really helps you get into the holiday spirit and helps you relax. It’s the perfect family activity!
We make sure our kids consume the best we can. Many people do not think that food can vary, but it does.
The Christmas season goes by so quick. It’s nice to just enjoy it and make long lasting memories with your family.
These are great tips to slow down and enjoy the holidays. I am suddenly craving for a cup of hot chocolate right now.
These are all great ideas. This can be such a chaotic time of year and it is great to slow down and enjoy it.
We love enjoying hot cocoa made with warm milk too! Tis the season for hot chocolate and cookies!
We love to look at all of the holiday lights for Christmas. Baking would probably be the second best way we enjoy the holidays.
We love to drive around and look at all the great Christmas light displays. These are great tips for slowing down during the holidays.
These are great tips for enjoying your holidays. I like to prep as much as i can ahead of time so i can relax and enjoy my friends and family.
This is a great way to improve your holiday season. I am sure that everyone would appreciate your post.
These are all fun ways to be able to relax and enjoy Christmas. I will have to go see some Christmas lights soon.
Slowing down during the holidays really is important to enjoying it more. What a better way to relax with your kids than to enjoy hot chocolates together.
every night in the fall/winter I have a cup of hot cocoa before bed. It’s my little tradition! I don’t really drink milk but I love that this brand doesn’t use artificial growth hormones, that’s super important
We sure do need to learn and slow down . I love all the fabulous ways you listed !
These are great tips! We did everything on this list this year. 🙂
I’ll definitely be baking some cookies. I wouldn’t mind settling down for a nice cup of cocoa on Christmas either.
Sounds like a great plan to me! This looks really good, and let me just say I’ve never had acutal Hot Cocoa so I’d love some!
So many great tips! We tend to hurry through the holidays, at least in my house. I need to take a breath and enjoy them.
We are planning on driving around the neighborhood and look at the lights I can’t wait to look at them. It is always good to slow down and just enjoy family because otherwise it’s too busy.
Baking cookies is a wonderful way to slow down and enjoy the holidays. We bake cookies every year as gifts.
Everything is better with hot cocoa! I love making cocoa when we decorate the tree.
It is so much fun to decorate and bake for Christmas!! We have a tradition of decorating sugar cookies for Santa.
We go all out and decorate for Christmas. We do tons of lights and people stop by every night. We love it… it is all set to music too. So, I tend to have home-made cookies on hand to hand out to those who come by 🙂
Yummy! This looks awesome. The milk sounds pretty great too :))) Thanks for sharing this!