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2024 :: Resolutions Of Hope Happy New Year! It’s time for resolutions! I love planning for a new year. There are always new adventures, new music, shocking events that no one saw coming, and memories to make with your loved ones. As I grow older (physically, I think I’ll say 31 for a couple more years), I realize how short time really is and how fast life changes. If you told me I’d be in this exact position last year, I’d never believe it. But the awful things I’ve overcome give me a sense of pride I never thought I’d feel. These are my resolutions: Let the people I love know I love them. I dropped the ball with this. After so...

Setting Your 2024 Goals - and Keeping Them! If you close your eyes and reflect on 2023, or the many years before, can you recall making resolutions at the start of a new year? Did you keep them? Were they life-changing, achievable, and worth the effort put in? Did they require sufficient sacrifice, altering of annoying habits, and financial investments for the betterment of self? New Year's goals are nothing new, and roughly 4/10 of us set goals every year. And with that said, most of us have historically set similar goals. According to Forbes' New Year's Resolution Statistics, the top goals set for the new year include some form of fitness goals, finance goals, and goals for improving mental health....

5 Post-Christmas Traditions To Start This Year The gifts have been opened, the cookies baked and the bells jingled. Christmas is over and the New Year is just a week away. What to do now? Here are five ideas for post-Christmas / pre-New Year traditions to end your year and start the new one off on the right foot. Review/reflect on the past year and set goals or a mission plan for next year. Take some time for yourself and review your year. This can be done in one sitting, or as a week long project. There are great, free online options to help guide you through your year in review. Check out this for a workbook and word of the...

Christmas Popcorn Recipe It’s the most wonderful time for popcorn. I have listed below a quick and easy tasty popcorn recipe. During the holidays we all love to get together with family and friends. We also love to bring something. This Christmas popcorn would be the perfect snack to add to your list of things to bring. You can even roll the popcorn into balls and store them in clear bags with curly ribbon and a cute tag that says Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays. Every year, my parents host an ugly sweater party. This year I have decided to bring Christmas popcorn. It will be the perfect treat to hand out at the end of the party. Ingredients: Popcorn Marshmallows ...

Twenty-Five Family-Friendly Christmas Jokes HO HO HO and Merry Christmas! With Christmas Day almost here, below are twenty-five family-friendly jokes to entertain the kids while waiting for the jolly man to arrive. What did Santa say at the start of the race? Ready, set, Ho Ho Ho! Why are Christmas trees so bad at sewing? They are constantly dropping their needles. Why didn’t Rudolph get a good report card? Because he went down in history. What do you call a greedy elf? Elfish What kind of photos do elves take? Elf-ies What falls at the North Pole but never gets hurt? Snow What does Santa do when he is tired? Takes a Santa pause. What is a Christmas tree’s favorite...