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Issue #123 - December 1,2008
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Welcome all newcomers and faithful readers!
Are you all immersed in holiday crazies? Take a deep breath and try to relax. We
still have almost a month to go and the finish line is so close. No sense
beating ourselves into the ground and not be able to enjoy the holidays, too.
Delegate tasks as much as you can. The kids would love to be in charge of
decorating the tree and setting out stockings. Be sure to see the wonderful
Christmas stocking holders on this page:
Christmas Stocking
Hooks
Finish up your Christmas shopping online and take a necessary breather. A hot,
soothing bubble bath works wonders for putting life back into perspective and
it's a real treat on a cold winter night. Pamper yourselves. You've earned it!
Our parenting article this month, A Beautiful Life, by my fiend Boogie Jack,
will help you understand the importance of being good to yourselves.
Happy holidays and Merry Christmas everyone! I'm wishing you all a perfectly
wonderful holiday and the very best of the season. See you in 2009!
One more time for good measure:
Rexanne's Christmas - Everything Christmas online.
And last chance to finish up all your Christmas shopping with a few clicks.
Rexanne's Christmas Mall
Seems it's a lot safer to shop online these days. *sigh*
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Reader's Comments:
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Beth wrote:
"Your
Thanksgiving recipes made me look like a kitchen Goddess. Thank you!"
LOL Beth - Glad you found them and made them your own. :-)
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It's been otherwise quiet in my inbox this past month. Guess you're all busy.
:-)
OK, here's the scoop:
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Quote of the Month: Youth is happy because it has the
ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows
old. - Franz Kafka
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Parenting & Family Topic of the Month: A Beautiful Life
by Boogie Jack
A Beautiful Life
The vast majority of our life is not filled with glorious events, it's made up
of ordinary moments. Doesn't it make sense then, that if we can find little ways
to make the ordinary just a little extraordinary, our lives would be more
pleasing to us?
How do we do that?
The answers surround you every day. Where do you spend the most time? In your
yard, inside your home, at work, driving in your car? Would you rather spend
your day surrounded by beauty and things that have meaning to you, or by visual
noise?
These days, with the financial crisis sweeping the world and crime on the rise,
the media delivers darkness and gloom at a fever pitch. Here in the US, winter
is coming and the days are growing shorter. It's more important than ever to
counter all the ugliness that hammers us each day if we are to keep a positive
outlook.
Our sense of pleasure is stimulated when we encounter beauty. By adorning our
everyday world with beautiful and meaningful things, our daily experiences will
be more pleasurable.
Of course, beauty and meaning are in the eye of the beholder. What's beautiful
or meaningful to me may not be to you. You must be true to your own sense of
beauty regardless of what others think. What can you do to make your
surroundings more beautiful and meaningful to you?
For me, I find great beauty and inspiration in nature. A walk in the woods, or a
casual stroll by the river, a starry night, leaving a little early and taking
the scenic route to my destination are all things that add beauty and wonderment
to my days and nights.
At home, I have two beautiful watercolor paintings I love that were created for
me by AAN subscriber Marge Heilman hanging in my office that add beauty to my
work surroundings. I also have exotic plants on my desk, hand crafted candles
with my favorite scents, and polished stones for paperweights. Even my desk is a
work of art to me with it's intricate wood grain and warm, rich color. Because I
spend so much time there, I've made my work space an oasis of things I love.
Alison and I both prefer handicrafts over mass produced home accents. Alison is
great at putting diverse crafts together in pleasing arrangements, so every room
of our home is decorated with these home made objects d'art made by creative
locals. Whichever room we're in, there are wonderful home crafted objects for
our eyes to rest on.
Adding beauty to our lives by setting our familiar stages with more appeal for
all five of our senses doesn't have to cost much at all. Craft work is
reasonably priced in the right places, scented candles aren't expensive (very
inexpensive on sale!), good music is readily available, and so forth.
Creating beauty in our lives is more than surrounding ourselves with things that
appeal to the senses. Simple things like having a clean and organized home adds
a sense of order and correctness to our lives that is lacking when we live in
disorder and uncleanliness. Taking care of your world is also a form of beauty.
As we start looking for beauty every day, our sense of the beautiful is refined
and enhanced and we start seeing beauty in places where we never noticed it
before. In nuances of color, in a the graceful shapes of ordinary objects, in
kind gestures, in faces that glow with an inner beauty, in musical styles
outside of our main tastes . . . it's all a part of learning to live a beautiful
life.
It doesn't even end there. The people you're around frequently, your family and
friends, your neighbors and co-workers, all represent an opportunity to bring
more beauty into your life and theirs. By looking for the best in them, by
brightening their day with random acts of kindness, you create beauty for them.
That little extra you do for them will reflect back to you, making your day more
beautiful as well.
There is the beauty that delights our senses, and as important as that is, there
is a deeper, universal beauty that we all hunger to give and to receive.
Universal beauty is found in the quiet, unsung gestures of kindness and
compassion we are able to share with others.
Albert Einstein put it like this: "The ideals that have lighted my way, and time
after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been
Kindness, Beauty, and Truth."
Indeed, these are the ideals that lead to a beautiful life. These are the ideals
that touch others in ways they appreciate and remember. These are the ideals
that would bring about a better world if everyone made them a part of their
life's credo.
These are the ideals that are calling out to a world in trouble.
Is anyone listening?
Visit the author at: Boogie Jack
Know of a good parenting or family site your fellow readers might enjoy or do
you have a topic you'd like to see covered in this section? Please send your
ideas in for possible publication in an upcoming issue:
Parenting Site
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Food & Cooking Site of the Month:
Christmas Food & Cooking
Everything from main meals to desserts with a separate section for Christmas
cookie recipes and decorating tips. Fill your kitchen with the smell of the
holidays and love will waft through your home. These are what childhood memories
are made of!
Bon Appetit!
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Kid's Site of the Month:
Christmas for Kids
All the goodies online that kids love. Coloring pages, crafts, games and fun
Christmas and holiday sites. Perfect entertainment for bored kids on vacation.
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Freebie of the Month:
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Print these adorable gift toppers to attach to bagged holiday gifts. Very cute
and looks much better than a plain sealed bag top.
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Tip or Trick of the Month: Cleaning Silver
If you've decided to use your gorgeous silver serving utensils for holiday meals
and they are brown and tarnished, make a paste of vinegar (white or wine vinegar
works) and salt. Rub on silver pieces and watch the tarnish turn to gleaming
silver.
Have a tip or trick your fellow readers would enjoy or could use? Please send it
in for possible publication in one of the next issues:
Tips
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Time Waster of the Month:
Silly Solitaire
(Because life is supposed to be fun!)
This is a classic game of solitaire with a twist ... each time you place a card
on the top row, an audio track of movie quotes palys. They are silly and obscure
and it'll get you giggling and hankering to get as many cards in play as
possible to keep the silly audio quotes coming. A good, mindless time waster for
busy times. :-)
Feed the kids first ...
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Featured Site of the Month:
Christmas
Checklists
Printable Christmas checklists. You'll find a Christmas card list, gift list,
holiday baking planner and many more excellent organizers to help make your
holiday less crazy.
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