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Intentional Holiday Plans?

Kendra Adachi released a great bonus episode today talking about intentional holidays.

Interestingly, just yesterday I sat down and spent some time thinking and journaling about how I want the holidays to feel. More specifically, how do I want that week between Christmas and New Years to feel?

Lay of the land: I’m off, the kids are off, my husband is working.

Kendra lays it out like this: 1. determine your purpose and 2. have some tentative ideas on how to spend the time.

So…

Purpose: I want to rest, spend quality time with family, get caught up on life, have some adventures.

Ideas

Rest: naps, books, winter walks, white space, quiet and alone time. Exercise! Move! Stretch. Visit the coffee shop alone. Reflect, reflect, reflect. Set some intentions. Look back on 2025, let go.

Family: movies, puzzles, local adventures (NYC), hiking the reservation, explore a new place to eat (eat in or take out), read together, and play. Also, put feelers out to whoever is in town that week for a play date.

Catch up on life: declutter more spaces in our house, make cookies, make borscht, make kotlety. My passport and kids’ passports. Make a plan for our summer trip to Russia. Tentatively sketch out big rocks of 2026.

Adventures: a day trip to NYC, hiking, coffee shop, library. Go to a movie with one kid?..

What would be your purpose for that week? What are some ideas how you want to spend that time?

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Mother, teacher, partner, friend. I love coffee, books, and travel with and without kids. I dislike exercise. Nothing glamorous here but do have moments of insight.

3 responses to “Intentional Holiday Plans?”

  1. Melissa Avatar
    Melissa

    That sounds like a good plan for you with lots of good things to choose from. I will be my parents place so mainly I’ll be wanting to spend time with family, rest (Beach hopefully) and read my books.

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  2. J Avatar
    J

    I love this week, it is perhaps my favorite week of the year. I still feel all cozy and happy from Christmas, but I don’t feel any of the pre-holiday stress. My birthday is that week, so we always do something fun. But I’m kind of peopled out, so that something fun is usually low key. Maybe a museum and a restaurant. Usually not a party. I love your plans, I hope you have some good unwinding time.

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  3. Grateful Kae Avatar
    Grateful Kae

    We leave for Ireland tomorrow, but reading J’s comment made me think how nice it would be some year for us to all just be off for the whole break. Usually I use so many PTO days on travel at other times that I have to work the days around Christmas, but the idea of a long stretch off, as J says, to just relax and enjoy the holidays WITHOUT the pre-Christmas stress sounds really lovely. We will be around new years week but of course, I’m working most of those days… hopefully we can still squeeze in some chill time, maybe a movie that week and some other fun.

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