Holiday Word Game

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get the family and guests involved.

It's very easy and other than the word Christmas that's diagonal in red letters, it's all vertical and horizontal words. Most are Christmas related and a few others that got made from surrounding words.

Christmas Word Game, Dona Anderson

 

Have fun and Happy Holidays and New Year!

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What's your Favorite Christmas Decoration

What a hard Question!

My questions even make me have to think!

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I know for me I have had lots of favorite ones.  

Some years I seemed to notice one more than others or if it was in a different spot it got more or less attention.

When the kids were little and a few puppies in the house the decorations were mostly unbreakable and theme based.  

As we all grew older and no other family around due to moving a few times, we decorated but usually thought more about what activities we could do and making those must have goodies to eat.

It was fun to get out with friends to go skating, go to a concert, sleigh ride, caroling, cross country skiing, have fondues or do the occasional big trip to go visit family with presents and food in tow.

For a few years I collected Santa's and it didn't take very long before I had too many.

Later on with downsizing and not wanting so many decorations anymore I had to start giving Santa's and other things away.

When I'm reducing one of my goals is to give something I have treasured to someone else who will treasure it.

I feel better now with what I have left. I can get into the storage area (Empty Space!!) and someone else has new treasures to enjoy. 

 Meet my Will Work for Cookies Santa

I had to think a while to decide what my favorite decoration is that I still have and I picked this one as each year when I get it out ...

It makes me smile and feel good.  

This Santa sits in my kitchen window and reminds me of the dozens of cookies and other baking we did years ago when we were skinny but didn't know it.  It reminds me of  trips to the freezer to get the baking but only finding empty containers. 

It reminds me of all the wonderful meals we had and shared because they always tasted better when we could share with others.

And it reminds me of standing in the kitchen waiting to sample those first cookies to come out of the oven and trying to save some for another day! 

Now with just me, hubby, our current older puppies and no family close by it is again a quiet time of year. The decorations become less important each year which lets us enjoy what we do put out and it gives us more time for relaxing as we settle in for our cozy Winter nap.

I hope your thoughts are now about wonderful memories 

that make you smile and feel good!

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All This With Just 4 Breaths?

Four Breaths

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Wellness Moment

I frequently revisit this guided relaxation titled Four Breaths. 

Whether I go through the whole page to slow down more fully or start half way down the page these four breaths remind me how easy it is to change my breath, change my mood, my thoughts, and change my outlook.

Feel the Power of 4 Breaths

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It goes something like this ...

The first of the Four Breaths on page 109 in Simply, One Breath At a Time starts by asking you to say to yourself, “ With this breath, I offer myself a smile, a smile warms and uplifts my body”

Your next breath to focus on asks you to say “I will get in touch with my inner self, and accept where I am at this moment…”

With your next breath, say “I will blossom like a new flower, I’ll open, unfold, I will find beauty and pleasure in simple, everyday things”  

The last breath to focus on asks you to say to yourself, “I’ve learned that if I bring a smile, I bring my true self, and a new freshness to life, life will allow me to blossom, to find beauty and pleasure … I will find joy in myself …”

Take a few minutes to let each request settle in and open your breath,

body and mind.  

During this process allow them to remind you to let go, to bring new smiles, thoughts and a freshness into your day, interactions and all that you do.

I hope you will return to these whenever you need to!

Info on Simply, One Breath At a Time 
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Josh Groban: Stages Live "All I Ask" (Featuring Kelly Clarkson) | Decemb...

Love It!

Great song Video!

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A real treat with this duet by Josh Groban and Kelly Clarkson 

These two just keep getting better and better.

Enjoy your weekend!

What a Wonderful World | Playing For Change

You'll love this Version

One of my favorite songs!.

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This arrangement has mostly children singing and dancing to the song.

Cheerful. Happy. Colorful. Fun.

It is a wonderful world!

  

Please share so others get to hear and enjoy it as well.

Hear them saying - THANK YOU, it was just what I needed.

Who is Standing next to You?

What a Surprise!

I don't remember how it began ...

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At the Winterfest Craft show last weekend I started chatting with the lady next to me about all the lovely homemade baby things she was making and selling.

I don't remember what started us talking about where we grew up.

 

Well you never know who is beside you.  

It blew me away!

She came from my home town. Born in the same hospital, went to the same public and high school and was only one year ahead of me. 

I don't know why I don't remember her as I would have seen her all the time and she grew up close by and knew everyone I remembered.  

We had great fun saying the do you remember this or that .... and most precious was she had later moved here and knew and worked with our friend of 40 years who passed this summer. 

The icing on the cake was the last day of the show she brought a year book from home and it was wonderful to flip through and see faces I hadn't seen since 1969.  

I moved away a few years later so I'm wondering now if I am one of those lost people they wonder about.

I never went to any reunions and  I'm not good at mingling but I did enjoy finding out where friends went off to and what they were doing.  (Luckily she has a great memory and still keeps in touch with others)

What a treat I had to relive those past memories, and meet someone I will see and talk with more.  

It's funny but I seem to be feeling a deeper sense of comfort and grounding this week.

Don't know what that's about!

 Do you keep in contact with your old school friends?

Going Against the Easy!

I know you have lots of Old Stories to Tell

Here's one of mine from way back in in 1994

Plan B worked out better ....

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IT was our 25th anniversary in March and we had for a few years previous planned to go the mountains a few hours drive from where we lived at the time for a nice winter weekend. 

Well my health wasn't good and we had some other things going on so we didn't go away but we did do something different.

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We decided to pretend we were in a different city and go out to eat all our meals from Friday night to Sunday morning like we would be if we were away.  So, we had to find different restaurants that we had never been to before.

We became Tourists where we live!

Well, that was harder than we thought and by the time when Sunday noon came along and we were treating ourselves to one of those expensive Brunch buffets, we were so full.

The idea was great for when you have to stay at home and still want it to feel special.  It would have been really easy to just make something at home or go to our regular places,  but this made us go against the easy and get out of the house and be tourists where we lived. 

New ideas help us get out of the old patterns and habits we get into and this became a story that we still remember and talk about.  Sometimes we don't want to go somewhere new for fear of it not being good or a number of other excuses, but WHAT IF it is better and you go back again!

Worth It!!!!!!

We found a new place in China town with the best Won Ton soup, a  pizza place that used a wood burning oven. We went to one of the downtown hotels and had a really fancy meal that introduced us to Tokyo turnips, found a bakery that made bread you bought by the weight, and yes the Brunch was fantastic.

Just think  - we could have stayed home!

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