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By Tana Marie
10 Traditions that Guarantee Romantic Holidays
1. Write Holiday
Love Letters to each other
Write each other loving notes recounting your previous year
together, including major and minor events. Put the notes
inside Christmas ornaments, hanging stockings or hidden in
places your partner is sure to find. If you've been together
for more than a year, read the previous year's notes and reminisce.
2. Give Secret Gifts
Put up stockings and secretly stuff each other's from Thanksgiving
until Christmas with special gifts you made or bought. Promise
not to peek until that special day when you open your presents
together.
3. Plan a Getaway
So many hotels have wonderful Holiday Get-Away packages available
throughout the country before the Holidays descend. There
are usually unfilled rooms this time of year and they offer
discounts and other fun packages to entice visitors. Treat
yourself to a get away right in your own hometown or someplace
close to home before the craziness of the season hits. You'll
to slow down, get cozy and make a few new memories.
4. Make a Holiday Crafts project together
Select a project you and your lover will enjoy, such as a
Holiday Scrapbook, Photo Album, your own Holiday Calendar
or Holiday cards. If you want something more structured, go
to a Pottery-making store in your area and make a Holiday
Mug or other personal, glazed keepsake. The idea is to do
it together and have fun. The memories it will create will
last for years!
5. Give Expected Gifts
Give a gift your partner would NEVER expect. For instance,
something they have been hinting about but thought they'd
never get. It is so romantic, because you paid attention to
their desires. Continue to surprise each other with fun gifts,
but making a tradition out of giving the really expected gifts
shows that you care abut making one other happy.
6. Soak up the Magic of the Lights
When the tree is finished, turn off all the house lights,
except for the tree. Sit there with your lover watching the
tinkling lights as Carols serenade you in the background.
It's always so magical and amazingly romantic.
7. Make time for Romance on Christmas Eve
On Christmas Eve, turn on the Christmas tree lights, turn
off the house & cell phone, play soft holiday music, and
open a bottle of wine, Champagne or other bubbly. Dance, cuddle
and share your favorite memories of the holidays.
8. Romantic Christmas Breakfast
On Christmas morning, after opening the presents, cook a big,
festive breakfast. Use china, crystal and the good silver.
Bring out the champagne and orange juice and make Mimosas.
The best part? Do it in your PJs!
9. Keep a Holiday Love Journal
Create a "Christmas Book." Every year write an entry in this
holiday-themed blank journal. Be as creative as possible;
decorate it in any manner you choose, because you're making
lifelong memories!
10. Volunteer Together
There are so many groups that help the homeless and needy
during the holidays. Helping out is a wonderful way to contribute
and spend time with your special someone. It also reinforces
how blessed you both are, regardless of all your "bad hair
days."
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