12 Ways Your Family Can Reclaim The Spirit of The Holidays

zippychristmas 12 Ways Your Family Can Reclaim The Spirit of The HolidaysThis is a guest post by Angela Artemis.

Is this your version of Jingle Bells?

Racing through the snow
On adrenalin and latte
To packed malls I go
Stressed out all the way!

Are you rushing to stores, sitting in traffic, fighting for a parking space, and standing in long lines at the registers?

Plus decorating, baking special treats in-between all the other activities, such as cleaning the house …

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Six Family Rituals That Are Priceless

lovingfamily Six Family Rituals That Are Priceless What family rituals do you value the most?

Establishing the right family rituals can do wonders for your togetherness and growth. 

A family ritual is simply something that you all love doing together that becomes a traditional habit for you.  A lot of family rituals involve the holidays, but this is not a necessity.

I love the example that Tsh offers in The Importance of Family Rituals over at Simple

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Traditions in America: 21 Things I Love About Sunday

picnic Traditions in America: 21 Things I Love About Sunday Want to know why Sunday is one of my favorite days of the week?

There are actually a number of reasons that I love Sundays, but I’ll get to that in a moment.  The sad thing to me is that Sunday seems to be changing.  If we aren’t careful, our Sunday traditions in America are going to be lost forever.  For some, I think they already are.

Traditional Sunday activities …

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A Story About My Relationship With Wisdom

wise man A Story About My Relationship With Wisdom I met a man named Wisdom and he shared his story with me, so I thought I’d pass it along to you.

Wisdom was up there in his years when I met with him.  Yes, he’d definitely been around the block a time or two, but he didn’t seem old.

In fact, it didn’t appear that he’d aged a bit since the last time that I visited him many moons …

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Five Family Values To Teach Our Kids (And Our Bankers!)

kids money Five Family Values To Teach Our Kids (And Our Bankers!) What family values do you consider most important for your children to embrace?

In order for our kids to grow up and live happy, productive lives they need guidance.  They need our direction so they can adopt the proper family values as their compass.

Embedding the right attitudes and values in our children early will keep them from running amuck like some of our bankers have done lately.…

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