Here comes a food coma

    Here comes a food coma

    Right down on your couch!!! (Melody of Here Comes Santa Claus)

Sleeping is one of the most glorious things about any break from school. Christmas break however is different. You have mountains of food and flashbacks to thanksgiving. It’s a lot longer break than Thanksgiving break so you can recover from your self-induced food coma. There are so many possibilities to do on Christmas break!

1. Spend time with family. *gasp* How dare I suggest such a thing?! Yes. I do say go spend time with your crazy family. Being able to see them for a little bit is more than some people get. Having opportunities to just be around them and be yourself because, let’s face it, if you have the same last name then you’re your own crazy addition to the family.
2. Play board game with them. Have you ever heard of the game Pigs, Anomia, Cranium or Farkle? If not, these games are possibly the silliest and strangest games ever. Perfect weird family bonding. In all seriousness if you have the option of board games or electronic games, do the board. games
3. Bake or cook anything and everything. Baking is so much fun, making cookies, pies, pizza, pastas, anything to feed a crowd. Baking also makes the whole house smell good.
4. Go to thrift stores and look at what weird stuff they have. My family is always big on thrift stores and doing DIYs with what we find. Sometimes there are treasures and others its trash, no matter it is always fun to go adventure to a thrift store.
5. Go sledding with your family. Drive around and find the biggest hill with the puffiest snow you can. Sledding is one of the most fun things to do over Christmas break. It gives you an opportunity to exercise and have fun while doing it? How often do you get to say you had fun exercising?
6. According to the web site Auburn Family, watch Christmas movies every day. On Hallmark and Freeform channels they have the 25 days of Christmas and they play different Christmas movies each night. “Build a fire, make some hot chocolate and popcorn and curl up on the couch to watch your favorite Christmas movies.”
7. Decorate your house/room/dwelling. Nothing gets you in the spirit of Christmas than decorating with a bunch of tacky penguins with sweaters and small light up villages adorning every. Single. Wall. Or even making hundreds of paper snowflakes, hanging up hundreds of tiny twinkle lights and tinsel to shiny up the place. The site, SheKnows ‘Bigger kids can help Dad with the lights and electronic decorations while the little ones can be in charge of gel window decals.”
8. Drive around and look at everyone else’s decorations and appreciate them. People spend so much money to show off their house, with the tiny lights to big and bulbous blowup bears. Some people even go so far as to sync their lights to music playing on loud speakers outside their house. It is pretty snazzy.
9. Take photos of everything. The magic, the atmosphere of Christmas seems to linger for a little bit after every old photo you see. The wave of joy from seeing old photos of people smiling together, feeling the bliss emit from the photograph and onto your fingers and up into your heart. Be able to remember that things will always get better.
10. Find gifts for people in advance; nothing sucks more than having to do Christmas shopping during the week of Christmas. People are crazy. ‘Nuff said.
11. This is the time to use your candle stash, make your house smell like every single scent you can think of like: Vanilla Cupcake, Peppermint, Cinnamon Rolls, Sugar Cookies, Marshmallow Fireside and the classic Christmas Morning scent. Having a pleasant aroma in your house when you’re feeling stressed about the holidays is one of the best things to relax.
12. Decorate your tree. Take the time to place each individual ornament with care. Listen to slow Christmas music to inspire your next placement on the tree. Take all day if you want, relax and just enjoy the delicate strings of lights or even popcorn. Then finally the star, the star should be the very last thing to go on. It should be the trees’ gleaming crown.

One final suggestion, there are 12 ideas, my challenge to you is do each one of these 12 days before Christmas. Most importantly, have a very merry Christmas break.

SOURCES: sheknows.com, family.auburn.edu