{"id":4513,"date":"2021-01-05T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T08:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ooh-noo.com\/blog\/?p=4513"},"modified":"2021-01-05T10:06:51","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T09:06:51","slug":"the-true-spirit-of-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ooh-noo.com\/blog\/the-true-spirit-of-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"THE TRUE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don\u2019t mean to brag too soon, but so far I\u2019ve been having a truly peaceful December. I’m at home with my family. The weekdays are busy, I do things for work besides some usual housework, children work for school, but at weekends, time slows down. We make Christmas cards that I bought the previous years, we create hand-made Christmas gifts, we bake, we clean, we laugh, we scream\u2026 Isn’t that what Christmas is about?<\/strong> I feel we forgot the true meaning of it over the years. \u00a0December was a hectic month for me: stressful shopping for presents, going to work parties and urgent mulled wine with old friends before the New Year\u2019s, cleaning the house and doing last minute cooking and baking before the in-laws arrive, driving children to numerous after-school activities and celebrations. To conclude, there was hustle and bustle everywhere.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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I can’t say that I don’t miss some things. I do. I miss mulled wine with old friends and visiting my family, I miss some of my colleagues at work, and I will, probably, miss our traditional family Christmas dinner. Probably.<\/p>\n

Yet, I don’t miss the nerve-wrecking last-minute shopping, cooking, baking, being a taxi form my children and the feeling that I must go to every celebration or dinner I\u2019d been invited to.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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In our family, putting up the Christmas tree was usually the last thing we did before the Christmas eve. But guess what? \u00a0This year we already put it up at the end of November and it\u2019s shining brightly in the living room, keeping our spirits high<\/strong>. I\u2019ve noticed that my neighbours have all hurried up with putting up their Christmas trees, too.\u00a0 I read somewhere that people who put up the Christmas tree in November are happier. Well, we\u2019re all one bunch of happy people now. ?<\/p>\n<\/div>

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I\u2019m realizing that these different times we\u2019re experiencing right now have at least slowed some of us down. They\u2019ve forced us to stay at home, to spend time together, to create, to cook proper meals, to make family and our loved ones the priority. They\u2019re opening our eyes to the true spirit of Christmas. Let\u2019s embrace and cherish that.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s celebrate in peace, with compassion and love.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>

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