What are the Holidays really about ?
Have you been watching holiday movies on TV this year?
Have you seen any sort of theme? I have noticed while watching the hallmark channel and movies like the Grinch that stole Christmas all of these movies have a similar holiday theme. It’s a simple reminder that is sometimes hard to keep in mind, but an important message.
The holidays are about family, getting together and spending time with one another.
Whether you are religious or not everyone from Giftsin24.com wants to wish you and your family a nice holiday.
We hope you are able to spend the day at home and with the ones you love. Wishing kindness in your hearts, food on your plate and a roof over your head.
Yes, gifts are nice, but more importantly let’s enjoy our friends and family, the non materialistic things in our life this year.
Many people do hope for more than presents at Christmas and New Year’s gatherings. We want to somehow return to a time in our childhood, when life was simpler and made more sense, before the troubles of adult life arrived. We feel sure that behind all the fun and decorations, there must somehow be a message, something more, some key to life, hope and happiness.
So can we look beyond the way Christmas is celebrated today, and find any real meaning, any message for our lives today?
From our family to yours. We hope you had a very Merry Christmas and have a happy New Year!
Remember to order your thank you cards. Choose from our great selection of personalized embossed and monogrammed thank you notes. Tell your family how thankful you are today!
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mwm66
Whatever the holidays are really about — I’m glad they are over. This time of year is exhausting and too often the cause of family friction even though it’s supposed to be a time of family togetherness.
31 December 2011, 10:36 amThrice333
I’m glad you said that, mwm. That’s how I feel, too.
31 December 2011, 11:07 amHenry B Springs
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31 December 2011, 8:38 pmJeff Harvey
Deja vu. I feel like we’ve had this message or a very similar one recently. But then I suppose there’s only so many things to say about the holidays, right?
I’m looking forward to the new year, hoping that 2012 is better than 2011.
Good to have another reminder about thank you cards. I know from experience that thank you cards are very much appreciated by people who went to the trouble to think of just the right personalized gift, because they really say “hey, I appreciate the gift you got for me.”
Anyway, happy new year to everyone here at the giftsin24.com blog!
31 December 2011, 10:57 pmJonathan Price
I agree with the other comments – while I enjoyed the holidays this year, I’m definitely glad they’re over! I could use some time to recover from all the time spent with family, all the food and so on.
I need to mail off some more thank you cards for the last of the gifts I received this Christmas, and then I’m set for the holidays. I’ll be glad when things go back to normal next week.
And with that said, happy new year everyone!
31 December 2011, 11:06 pmHenry B Springs
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1 January 2012, 8:31 amLightspeed
Henry’s last quote reminds me of an old Italian adage that if you cannot write your thoughts clearly, then you don’t really know the subject — which makes a lot of sense to me.
1 January 2012, 10:24 am