Tag: Christmas

Top 10 Children’s Christmas Songs From Boomer’s Childhoods

These 10 Christmas songs were hits when the baby boomers were kids or young adults, and are now classics.  These quality songs are still being played on the radio today, and the reruns of the television specials that many of them are a part of, are being enjoyed all over again by the boomer’s kids… Continue reading Top 10 Children’s Christmas Songs From Boomer’s Childhoods

Winter Needs Christmas

Many people are not religious, but they still love Christmas. Christmas has become more secular, and more spiritual. In those parts of the world where winter is cold, Christmas warms our bodies and souls from the inside out. Christmas is a time of expansion – we eat too much, spend too much, drink too much,… Continue reading Winter Needs Christmas

What is Your Favorite Holiday Decoration?

Sometimes our favorite holiday decorations are not the ones that cost the most money, or fit into a designer color scheme.  They are often the ones that catch us by surprise, and melt our hearts, because they were made with love by the hands of a child, who is so excited to give them to… Continue reading What is Your Favorite Holiday Decoration?

Review of Week 48 – Optimizing Yourself – Getting Ready for Christmas

For this week’s Optimizing Yourself exercise, I followed my plan to get ready for Christmas early, and got a lot accomplished. Starting early gave me time to sort through the decorations in the boxes in the attic. Over the years I have collected too many decorations, so I was able to give the ones I… Continue reading Review of Week 48 – Optimizing Yourself – Getting Ready for Christmas

Favorite Practical Christmas Gifts

This year I am simplifying my Christmas gift shopping list and buying PRACTICAL gifts. These are the tools that the people on my list will use every day to help them feel or look better, be safe, comfortable, happier, healthier, inspired, warmer, cleaner, well groomed, organized, dryer, relaxed, entertained, and developed. This is an all-ages… Continue reading Favorite Practical Christmas Gifts

Week 48 – Optimizing Yourself – Get Ready For Christmas – Nov 18 – Nov 24, 2013

I love Christmas, but I sometimes find all the preparations a little overwhelming. I can understand how people dread the holidays if they’re not ready. I feel that this week is the perfect time to prepare, not too early, not too late. The lady that lives behind me put up her Christmas tree two weeks… Continue reading Week 48 – Optimizing Yourself – Get Ready For Christmas – Nov 18 – Nov 24, 2013

Christmas Outdoor Containers

Living Room by Gatineau Interior Designers & Decorators Bernacki & Beaudry Design Corp. An entrance door flanked by themed Christmas containers, announces the season to all, and welcomes holiday visitors to your home. Arranged with evergreen boughs and seasonal accents, festive planters blend the spirit of the garden with the spirit of the holiday season.

A Woodward’s Christmas Story – By: Patricia Hoy

  Patricia Hoy submitted the following Christmas blog that conjures up wonderful memories for me of the now defunct Woodward’s department store on Hastings Street in Vancouver.  It was like a Christmas Disneyland for adults and kids alike,  an annual Christmas shopping event for Vancouverites in the pre mega-mall era.  From  huge street level windows… Continue reading A Woodward’s Christmas Story – By: Patricia Hoy