Four Tips for Making the Best of a Holiday Move to El Paso

By Julie DeLong, A-1 Freeman Moving Group 

Put Up A Tree. Or 2.

Your home is a wreck with moving supplies anyhow, so why not put up a tree and place stockings by the fireplace and a wreath on the entrance? Should you buy a live tree, so what regarding dropped needles? You are moving anyway. Get the youngsters involved with decorating and go full-scale --leave no branch untouched. In the event you have not been shopping at this point, wrap empty containers with the previous year's excess wrapping paper and take loads of photos. Create a playlist of everyone's most loved Christmas tracks and blast it as you deck the halls.

For those who have young children, wrap some of their items and place them beneath the early tree as a surprise. Older kids and spouses will appreciate this gesture also.

Bonus--you're going to know which lights work when you get to your new residence.

Coordinate a Friendsgiving

Should your Thanksgiving resembles an anonymous dinner at a truck stop on the highway, put together an early celebration. Friendsgiving is a newer trend in which you celebrate along with friends and neighbors, hence what about a bon voyage feast before you go? Ask a close buddy to host for you and put together the dinner together--this is a wonderful possibility to share dishes. Try not to skip any traditions--play tag football, watch a sporting event on TV (there's always on demand, if necessary) go ice skating, or even go shopping at midnight--you'll find quite a lot of 24-hour big box stores to be able to preserve the tradition, and you are less apt to get trampled.

Once more, there is a bonus--the silver's now polished.

Make Embellishing Your New Residence A Top Priority

After arriving to your new house in El Paso, don't pass "Go" with the decorating boxes and bins--have the moving company folks set them right in the living room where you're setting up your tree. After that, get to it--trim the tree, hang the stockings, and light up the night--you could set up your cable TV any time. You've already created the holiday song collection, turn it on and sing along--it provides a good cross over from the old house to the new one.

Launch New Traditions to Keep the Magic Alive for Kids

Moving to El Paso is challenging for the whole family, however it can take a toll on youngsters more than adults. You have had exposure to new places, and a lot of children have not. It's important to retain as many traditions as possible, and also to get started on some new ones. Here are several ideas to get you started.

· Take advantage of a new climate --hike, snowboard, swim, or drive to the seaside. Show your family the advantages of their new hometown with some new adventures.

· Via social media, find out exactly where the best Santa is, the best light displays, and other local traditions, are and make a evening of it.

· Additionally, using google, look for memorable happenings--concerts, plays, live Nativity scenes, parades, and New Year's Eve gatherings. A lot of areas host family-friendly events for New Year's, where the ball drops around nine o'clock and there's a plethora of fun-filled activities for the children.

· Accept your internal tacky--if you've always gone right over the blow-up sleighs and snowmen, regardless of how hard your children beg, this may be the time to let it go and buy whatever yard art your kids desire. If that means light-up angels along with a snow globe and the Grinch, get out your air pump and spotlights and just stop trying to be Martha Stewart this current year. This is a secret--10 years from now you might be sorry if those blow-up figures wear out.

Handling a holiday move to El Paso doesn't need to be the toughest thing ever; give attention to your family, the season and your traditions--it will be a guaranteed method to help you fake it until you make it.