Whole Teacher » holiday preparations http://wholeteacher.com Inspiration and Resources for Balance Before Burnout Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:23:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Holiday Wishes – simplify, let go, and let them help! http://wholeteacher.com/2009/12/holiday-wishes-simplify-let-go-and-let-them-help/ http://wholeteacher.com/2009/12/holiday-wishes-simplify-let-go-and-let-them-help/#comments Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:32:10 +0000 Melissa http://wholeteacher.com/?p=375 This holiday season, my lesson has certainly been to keep it simple.  Picture Disney’s Snow White doing her chores with the birds and woodland animals dancing around her singing while she whistled her way through her chores.  Well that was me preparing for the ensuing blizzard that hit the East Coast last weekend.  I have 2 feeders that stick to my windows of my glass enclosed "Maine Porch Room".  This is my favorite place to watch storms and see the birds as the forage for seed.  I was running up and down the stairs of the deck, whistling Christmas carols, when all of a sudden I took a tumble.  You can picture the interruption to the woodland vision.

Well after the storm subsided the next day, I was able to get an x-ray and luckily it was only a sprained wrist.  This has meant that preparing for the holidays and sending out last minute college applications at schools has been a slow process.  I know the lesson for me was to let go of perfect and simplify. 

The other gift was in letting others help me.  My boys made me so proud, cooking dinners, hanging curtains, folding clothes, all the thins I would usually do myself so it was done right … but guess what … they did it better!  We had so much fun, and I think it made this Christmas a very special one!

The message for you:

May you keep it simple, let go of perfect, and let others help you!

Peace!

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