Filling your space is a personal to-do in your adulting years. Recently, home owners are all about color and eclecticness- especially this holiday season.
Decorating a tree is a past-time since old Saint Nicholas. Skinny and tall, wide and short, or a mixture of it all, each tree deserves equal attention.
Those ornaments passed down each year by your Grandmother may just come in handy, so keep them! Nostalgia is a holiday phenomena, each year you remember the last. Decorating your house like a petite Christmas village could just help keep that child-like spirit for years to come.
After getting all holly jolly, it is time to give back to the rest of the world. The evolution of donations to food and clothing drives has multiplied into paying for someone’s order behind you in the drive-thru or in the grocery store, gifting teachers for all they purchase on their own and handle in the entire school year, or baking your neighbors cookies.
Community members far and distant are doing the very most in silence; we must acknowledge those who make the world more peaceful.
In the public eye, a handful of NFL players on the Eagles (Jalen Hurts, Jason Kelce, Jordan Mailata, and Lane Johnson) surprised a group of children in the Philadelphia foster care system with over 6,000 Beats headphones. We are not sure if the boys were more excited about seeing Hurts in real-life or their new accessory.
The Teigen-Legend family took their two oldest to start the tradition of early at the Ronald McDonald House Charities. Legend puts it simply, “We try to teach our kids that it’s important to give back and to help other people. They’ve gone with us to help feed people who are hungry, they’ve gone to homeless shelters with us. We try to teach them to be appreciative of what they have and also know that there are a lot of people that don’t have the privileges that they do, so we should do what we can to help them.”
Feeding America also received the helping hands of Tayshia Adams, Bridget Moynahan and Emma Roberts.
The real problem is that we do not hear too much of what else goes on in the world of strangers like how a local highschool basketball team all pitched in to give their teammate a fresh pair of shoes as he was not going to receive anything this year due to financial difficulties.
Moments like this touch our hearts and remind us how to go into the New Year.
How are you going to show up for yourself and those around you?
From these brief encounters we see during this time of the year, we encourage you to think graciously, selflessly, and passionately in 2024.