Technology is wonderful, isn’t it? We have so many more options to keeping connected over the holidays than ever before! While staying in touch with family and friends is important year-round, we all feel that pull to get a little closer during this season, don’t you agree?
Keeping connected requires a great plan. You don’t want to spend hours chatting with your great-uncle Johnny only to find out that you’ve gone WAY over your minutes! Or worse, receive 500 pictures of your way-to-cute-for-words niece and discover that, WHOA, you’ve obliterated your data plan!
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Kimberly Moffit, a renowned relationship therapist, has some great tips on keeping connected over the holidays, whether you’re heading to relatives houses for the big day or staying at home. Check them out!
Tips for Keeping Connected over the Holidays
Here are three fun and festive tips from Kimberly Moffit to better stay in contact with your loved ones this holiday season:
- Make Board Games Digital – You may have grown up playing board games with your family in front of a fireplace, but what to do when everyone lives across the country? Try different activities that can be done online like putting together a family album over Flickr or playing video “board games” like online Word Feud. You can even play remote games on systems such as Xbox Live. Playing games as a family is fun and can increase your sense of closeness during the holidays.
- Skype, Text and Call to Your Heart’s Content: Just Make Sure You Have a Plan: Nothing’s worse than coming home to an overpriced phone bill in the New Year. Get a great plan this holiday so you can feel comfortable knowing that you’re spending quality time without breaking the bank. For example, WIND Mobile has a Cross-Canada plan that gives you the freedom to use your phone and stay connected anywhere across the country.
- Write Homemade Christmas Cards – In our digital age of phones and email, there’s something to be said about being on the receiving end of a non-digital form of communication. Hand writing a letter or card might take time but makes a lasting and heartfelt impression.
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How do you keep connected with loved ones during the holidays? Tell us in the comments!
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For our relatives that live in Italy, we phone every week. We are so lucky that the telephone rates are so cheap to phone from Canada. Our bill for long distance is only about $2 monthly.
We have recently moved so staying in touch and planning to see each other has been a challenge. These are great ideas!
I moved to Florida and my Mom,Family and Friends are in Maryland so this would work out great!
This is perfect! I like to make handwritten cards the best.
I love this – we have family all over the place and it’s not always so easy to stay in touch!
I like sending hand written Christmas cards. I am not a big fan of the picture cards with no real personalization or the “everybody gets this same Christmas letter” letter.
I would very much like to visit my late husbands relatives on the east coast, and this would be a lovely way to do it
send cards to string up around the walls
Great contest…Would love to return to the West Coast to visit relatives…
What a great contest! I have some family who live rather far away & I’d love to be able to connect with them more.
Wind Mobile sound terrific – it always a must to stay connected to family over the holidays!
My kids always come home for Christmas. This year we’re going to be missing one (his work won’t give him the time) so tips like this are so welcome!
How cool to be able to make board games digital. I think our family would like that option tons.
This sounds like a great contest! And Wind Mobile sounds very affordable! Perfect for those on a budget (and who isn’t this time of year!?)
Wind mobile sounds awesome, I have been looking for a brand new phone lately; such a cool contest!
This sounds like a great contest! I love creative ways to stay in touch with family.
It wouldn’t be the holidays without being connected to family! This sounds great!
I love being connected to family & friends over the holidays! So much love in the air :)
It’s so important to stay connected over the holidays. It’s a magical time of the year.
staying connected can be easy and hard at the same time. I seem to be more connected to family that is on the other side of the country than I am with ones that are like 30 mins away.
I am blessed that all of my relatives are close. My best friend’s family is far away though and I know she would appreciate these tips.
I usually stay connected via social media and Christmas cards! most everyone I know is on Social Media!
I have a few family members who live several states away. We email a lot, but the most fun we have is playing Words with Friends. That’s a blast!
With social media it is so easy to stay connected. My son went off to sea for 9 months and we still FB and Skyped.
My family lives all over the place. It’s not always easy to see them so these are great tips for me!
what a cool contest. it gets us going to see each other!
That sounds like a fun contest. When I lived in Oklahoma the only family I had there was my mom while everyone was up here in Michigan. Not I’m here and I don’t see them near enough! Thankfully none of them live far and hubs was born and raised in the town we live in now. His parents are close as well as the rest of his family.
My parents are in Florida so we facetime so that they can see the kids.
I’m still a big fan of sending and receiving Christmas cards, for sure!
What a cool contest idea! We have family members that are pretty far and some that are close too! It can get difficult to stay in touch for sure!
What a great contest! I live close to the family members that I am close to and we always get together for the holidays.
That’s a fun contest. I am lucky because I am only about 20-25 minutes from most of my family, so I get to see them all the time.