Holiday
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10 of the Best Meaningful Gifts for Spouses
Dear Friends, Today I am sharing my final gift list for the season. This time I am sharing my list of ten meaningful gifts for spouses. Each one of these ideas is near and dear to my heart, and because time is the most precious gift that I believe can be given, most of these gifts are free but do require you giving your spouse the gift of your time. 1. The first gift idea I have is a love letter scavenger hunt. In this hunt you will write a series of love letters and hide them around your bedroom or perhaps your entire house, it is…
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10 of the Best Meaningful Gifts for Children
Dear Friends, I am so excited to share my next ten meaningful gift ideas with you, this time the gifts I’m recommending are for children. These are all gifts I have either given children myself or received when I was a child, and they are still some of my fondest memories. 1. The first gift idea I have is a story written just for them. This story doesn’t have to be long but a child would love to receive a story written just for them that might have their favorite animal or toy or even them as the main character. For presenting it to them you could write it out…
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10 of the Best Meaningful Gifts for Family and Friends
Dear Friends, I am so excited to share with you some wonderful ideas I have for gifts for family and friends this Christmas season. I know that we should not focus on the gifts but it seems that in this season of giving we feel so generous because of the generosity that God showed to us. One thing that I notice about the holidays is that they come and go and the excitement of the presents fades rather quickly. In an earlier post I emphasized that time is the most precious gift you can give. For the next few blogs I will be sharing some of…
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Why a Tree of Gratitude is the Best Autumn Decoration
My favorite Autumn decoration is our Tree of Gratitude! Dear Friends, I have such a fun tradition to share with you today! Roughly 5 years ago I wrote a paper for one of my courses on the profound impact gratitude can have on a person’s life. What I learned effected me so much that I wanted to put things into motion in my family’s life right away that would focus on gratitude. It happened to be close to November at the time and I love Christmas decorations. My husband will tell you I am notorious for trying to get him to let me put up the Christmas…
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Time is the most precious gift
Time is the most precious gift you can give… Dear Friends, I hope you are as excited about the holidays as I am! We always spend so much time and energy preparing for our guests to arrive and put so much care into how everything is put together for everyone. When it comes time to have our holiday feasts and gatherings of all sorts, we can lose some of our time together by being on our phones. Time is the most precious gift we can give because it is finite. Time’s scarcity makes it truly more valuable than anything else which is why when you give it…
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Gratitude Truly Changes Everything for the Best
Gratitude truly changes everything! Dear Friends, In the spirit of Thanksgiving I thought it would be a great time to talk about gratitude. Gratitude is very commonly spoken about these days and yet it still seems to only be recognized for the surface level improvements it has on your emotions. Keeping a gratitude journal is more of a trendy activity at the moment which is wonderful. It is a great thing to keep a gratitude journal for your overall health and well being so it being a trend is truly a blessing. Did you know that gratitude really does change everything? It not only improves your emotional well being, but…
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How to Actively Listen to Enjoy Time with Others
Active listening to enjoy the holidays to the fullest with family and friends with views different than your own. Dear Friends, We live in such a unique time in history. Everyone is more polarized than they have been in any point in my life, and I’m sure yours as well, and we are being expected to choose a side for any opinion we may have. It is as if there is no room for neutrality anymore. This is just so taxing on our relationships with family and friends and it can feel so devastating and isolating. We do not need to lose friends or disconnect from…
