Holidays Archives - Christina Tiplea

Savor the Holidays Mini Course is back!

November 16 by Christina Tiplea Filed Under: Holidays, Simple Living

I am beyond excited to officially announce that my Savor the Holidays mini course is back for its second holiday season!

So many of you said you enjoyed participating last year that I decided to offer the course again this year for those of you who haven’t had the opportunity to take it yet 🙂

As much as we all wish the holidays were purely relaxing, the truth is that this time of year has a way of making us feel frenzied and unable to appreciate how wonderful the holiday season can be.

Last year I had enough of the stress and busyness that accompanies the holiday season and decided to finally do something about it! I wanted the holidays to be different for not only my family and I, but for you and your families as well. I want us all to be able to have a rich holiday season filled with mindfulness and creating meaningful memories!

In the spirit of making sure that happens, I created a wonderful mini course called Savor the Holidays. I would love for you to join me in this 21 day mini course that is designed to guide you through slowing down and soaking up all of the joy this holiday season. [Read more…]

How to Give the Gift of Relaxation

December 22 by Christina Tiplea Filed Under: Clutter-Free Gift Ideas, Holidays

A big thank you to Nature’s Bounty® Earthly Elements™ for sponsoring this post! Their products were gifted to me for review. As always, all opinions are 100% my own.

While we all experience stress throughout the year, the holidays really seem to put us all into a frenzy.

Between the parties, buying and wrapping presents, decorating, cooking, and baking….it leaves many of us feeling a bit frazzled. So often I see my friends and family members stressed to the brink this time of year, and I’m always trying to think of how I can help them to relax a bit more and enjoy the holiday season to the fullest.

While it’s always wonderful to offer your time and lend a hand to help those who are struggling to get everything done, I also think it’s nice to gift them with items that will help remind them to take some time for themselves to just relax and be at peace. [Read more…]

Easy Ways to Give Back this Holiday Season

December 18 by Christina Tiplea Filed Under: Holidays

While many of us have the desire to give back in some way or other during the holiday season especially, it can be overwhelming to figure out where to begin or find out what opportunities are available to us.

The holidays will be over before we know it, but there are still so many easy ways you can give back this holiday season! There are many opportunities to give throughout the entire year, but there are truly more chances to give during December than any other month. [Read more…]

5 Tips for Self-Care During the Holidays

December 16 by Christina Tiplea Filed Under: Health, Holidays

A big thank you to Nature’s Bounty® Earthly Elements™ for sponsoring this post! Their products were gifted to me for review. As always, all opinions are 100% my own.

The holidays have a tendency to put us on the brink of exhaustion at all times.

We worry ourselves into a frenzy trying to be everything to everyone and can easily get to a point where we completely forget to take care of ourselves.

How can you keep giving to others if you don’t have anything left to give?

The answer is simple: you can’t. [Read more…]

Ideas to Create Meaningful Holiday Memories

December 12 by Christina Tiplea Filed Under: Family, Holidays

For those of us who have small children, it can feel like a big responsibility to make sure the holiday season is a magical time for our kids.

We want them to look back on their childhood and have fond memories of the family activities we participated in together, and have those memories mean something special to them.

We don’t want them to look back and only remember the gifts that were opened on Christmas morning, but instead how the importance of the holiday season lies in giving and the time spent with our loved ones.

The great beauty of kids is that they can find magic in the most simple of activities 🙂 Gotta love ’em for that! Today I’m sharing some simple ideas for your family to do together that will help to create meaningful holiday memories for all involved. [Read more…]

5 Creative Ways to Enjoy a Date Night at Home During the Holidays

November 30 by Christina Tiplea Filed Under: Holidays, Saving Money

The holidays can be a time of angst and stress for many couples.

Between the never-ending shopping lists to tackle and parties galore to attend, it can leave even the best of us feeling stressed out to the maxed and not being as kind to our spouses as we usually are. It’s so important to make quality time with your significant other a priority during this busy time of year, to make sure you don’t lose sight of how much you actually do enjoy each others’ company.

While date nights out can be a lot of fun, I find myself wanting to hunker down with my hubby at home during the holidays and enjoy just relaxing together in our cozy little house. Spending a lot of money on going out together also doesn’t really appeal to us at a time of year when we are spending more on gifts, etc.

In the spirit of that, I wanted to share some creative ways to enjoy a date night at home during the holidays, and hope these at-home holiday themed date ideas will inspire you to enjoy more time with your spouse in the coming weeks! 🙂 [Read more…]

7 Ways to Simplify the Holiday Season

November 16 by Christina Tiplea Filed Under: Holidays, Simple Living

Are you feeling stressed out by the holidays already? Perhaps feeling like you want to run and hide until it’s all over so you can just relax?

The holidays can be a huge time of anxiety and dread, but it truly does not have to be that way!

There are a few simple changes you can make to help simplify the holiday season so you can enjoy it to the fullest, and I’m excited to share them with you today. [Read more…]

9 Fun Christmas Traditions for Families

November 11 by Christina Tiplea Filed Under: Family, Holidays

Do you feel the pressure to come up with fun and creative activities for your family to enjoy together every holiday season?

I think that any parent can relate to feeling like you need to be doing the million adorable “Elf on the Shelf” or Pinterest-perfect ideas that you might see other parents doing with their kids. We have traditions for all the seasons, for example, in summer we all go to have some new york tennis lessons, it’s super fun and gets us all active.

But Christmas traditions don’t have to take up a crazy amount of time and effort on your part to be magical for your child. That’s the beauty of kids – pretty much every simple experience you share with them ends up being a magical one, especially during the holiday season 🙂 [Read more…]

11 Gift Ideas for Minimalists

November 5 by Christina Tiplea Filed Under: Clutter-Free Gift Ideas, Holidays

The holiday season is officially upon us and today I’m back with even more gift ideas for the holiday season in addition to the Ultimate Clutter-Free Gift Guide I shared last week 🙂

As much as we all really look forward to this time of year, I think there can also be a sense of dread that comes with it as well. For those of us who purposefully try to keep our homes clutter-free throughout the year, the impending gift exchanges that accompany Christmas can sometimes leave us feeling a little panicked with all of the excess that finds a way to creep into our homes.

Today I’m sharing 11 fabulous gift ideas that are as clutter-free as gifts get, and are items that anyone would love to receive! [Read more…]

Our Halloween + Savor the Holidays Course is Now Available

November 2 by Christina Tiplea Filed Under: Holidays, Simple Living

I hope you all had a wonderful Halloween weekend!

It was rainy and a bit on the cold side in Chicago, but we made the most of it and had a blast visiting with all of Little Miss’s Grandparents and my brother who was in town for the weekend.

Her flamingo costume was a hit, and she loved that she could see the beak peeking out from above her head. I ended up ditching the idea of gluing feathers to her costume because I ultimately decided it would be a hot mess to attempt, but she was still the cutest little flamingo I ever did see 🙂 [Read more…]