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Find Time to Celebrate

 

My Tip of the Week is to find time to celebrate!  Many of you may find that it’s difficult to feel good about anything this time of year. You are looking back on the year past with a bit of hardship.  You are looking forward towards a period of uncertainty.  Things are really uncomfortable this year.  The heat is being turned up.  And yet, I tell you, FIND TIME TO CELEBRATE!

 

My parents tell the story of their first year of marriage in 1972. They were married at the end of April.  They were freshly out of college and my father was trying to start a career. There wasn’t much money to go around.  They bought a few small things for each other to exchange.  My mom had come from an affluent family.  She looked at their poor little tree their first year out of school.  She wanted more presents!  So, my parents took all the canned goods that they had in their pantry and wrapped them up and put them under the tree. Can you imagine opening creamed corn on Christmas Day?   But it worked! And it is now a cherished family story.

 

This year, I think we should all embrace the Grinch’s moment of discovery.. “Maybe Christmas doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas…  perhaps…  means a little bit more”.   When I went to look up the EXACT phrase from the Grinch on Google, I stumbled across a very interesting site put together by the “Michigan Catholic – Archdiocese of Detroit”.  Please don’t read this as anything religious (I am not Catholic).  It has some great ideas for ways to do things on a budget this Christmas.  If any place across the nation knows what financial hardship feels like it’s Michigan and specifically Detroit.

 

This week I encourage you to love all the time you spend with your family (even your uncle who drinks too many egg nogs). Drive around and look at Christmas Lights. Embellish in TNTs endless reruns of “It’s a Wonderful Life” and “A Christmas Story”.  Continue with old traditions and start some new ones.  But most of all, find moments every day for the next week (and until the end of the year) to celebrate!

 

It’s been a hard fought year.  You have accomplished a lot.  You are weary. Take moments to relax and enjoy the people around you.

 

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

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