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Making Spirits Bright
Sometimes the best gifts we give and receive are those from the heart.
Here are some ideas for sharing your heart and making others’ spirits bright
this holiday season.
Home cooking 101
Instead of just having your friends over for dinner, invite them to cook a
meal with you. Teach them how to cook your grandmother’s fried chicken and
greens, or have them bring one of their own to share. Make this an evening of
learning and having some fun, too, while spending time with special people in
your life.
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Old fashioned Fun
Invite several friends or families over for a simple supper, such as a
hearty soup and cornbread with the fixins. After dinner, play a game of
charades or Pictionary, pitting the kids against the grownups. End the
evening singing Christmas songs.
Gift Exchange
Invite several friends to exchange small gifts (set a spending limit). Have
them arrive with the gifts unwrapped, let everyone in on the fun. After
wrapping the gifts, give them to a group home or shelter. Because children
are the focus of gift-giving in shelters, think about bringing another gift
for the mothers.
Special Time
Consider reading, signing cards and/or giving manicures to seniors in a
retirement home. Leave the book, the box of cards or nail polish, even a gift
basket filled with your gift of special time.
Time for the Little Ones
Make each evening in December special for your child. Try reading to them by
candlelight, or have older children read to you. Blow out the candle each
night and make a Christmas wish.
Time for your Significant Other
Tell someone “why’ you love them, not just that you love them in a song, a
poem, in a letter.
Some ideas: I love you because when you play the piano, I can hear the joy in
the keys; I love you because you always see the good in people; I love you
because you’re always there when I need you.
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