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Breakfast & Lunch
Breakfast & Lunch
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Always Breakfast
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‘Livin The Dream’ in the evening. So lovely to be your phone to remind you what is
included but where will we find the for whom. And, for heaven’s sake,
endless team meetings, followed time for Christmas shopping, and don’t forget to wrap and tag a few
by quick, zippy weekends! Winter finishing crafts for gifts, and all the lovely gifts (preferably something
can drag its heels, but summer is Christmas Markets? Oh my! you like as well) for those awkward
swift of foot. moments when you are presented
From the last week in November
Fall can be a time of reflection. until the gift wrap is in the bin and with an unanticipated gift. Pro tip:
keep at least one in the car.
Leaves turn. The breeze cools. the turkey carcass is simmering on
Remembrance Day. We may scurry the stove; it’s a frantic race to the But most of all, don’t forget
a bit to get things done before the finish line. that the main thing is to be in
snow falls. Closing up the cottage. There are tricks, of course, to the moment. When you are at
Dealing with the hot tub. Raking manage the flurry of this intense the children’s endless Christmas
those leaves. November. The speed and compact season of potential concert, or listening to the tedious
By Janeen Wagemans of summer seems to slow its roll. merriment. Lists are important. stories of elder relatives that you’ve
Until, all of a sudden, we’re in Schedules. Plan something simple, heard a hundred times before, or
ime is mysterious. It looks whatever it may be, be there. With
a hurry! Christmas is coming! yet popular, to bring to those
Tto be so structured and your whole mind and heart. Don’t
It’s time to panic! Let’s get those inevitable potluck parties. Stock
mathematical. Eons and centuries, resent the time it takes from your
outdoor lights up! Decorate the up on the ingredients to avoid last
and years and months, days, and frantic preparations. Accept that
Christmas tree! Suddenly the minute runs to the store. Be at
hours. Hours and minutes. Seconds. balls will be dropped. Mistakes
calendar is more stuffed than the the ready with the hostess gifts of
Even nanoseconds. It’s how we will be made. (A great gravy can
proverbial turkey! Every choral wine, or fruitcakes, or the mason
operate. It’s how we organize our cover for a dry turkey).
group, or friendship circle, or jars of Nuts & Bolts, or whatever
lives. You may be the ring master of
book club, or gang from work, you’re known for. Keep them near,
And yet, we all know that time feels the need to get together for if not already parked in festive gift your own holiday, but the important
also has a way of being elastic. a party! It’s hard to fit everything bags with tissue paper and bows. thing is that you don’t forget to
Some minutes can seem like hours. in! Some days double up. Lunch Wrap gifts when you buy them. enjoy the circus.
And some hours can just seem to fly with the girls, because we always Don’t expect that a window of January. Slow. Quiet. Time
by! We live slow workdays, maybe do, and then the children’s chorus time for wrapping will magically to read the books you got for
appear. Remember the “to-from” Christmas, and to reflect on the
labels so you don’t get confused lovely holiday that you took the
Match Your Area Knowledge down the line. And maybe a list on time to enjoy

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