Tag: Cyber Monday

Monday – Funday

NBC News has a great comprehensive list for Cyber Monday deals and they have broken it out into different categories, such as clothing, home goods, tech, etc. Here is the link below:

https://www.nbcnews.com/select/shopping/best-cyber-monday-deals-sales-2023-rcna126239

I felt a little stressed over the weekend, with friends texting pictures of their beautiful Christmas decorations and sharing ideas of how to make your house smell like a pine scented forest, for the holidays. My husband and I weren’t up for decorating for Christmas yet, thus my dozens of glass pumpkins are still scattered around the house and wafts of my Pumpkin Spice wallflowers still permeate the air in our home. I read something on the internet that supposedly, in Ireland, it is technically illegal to do any kind of Christmas decorating, shopping or celebrating, until December 8th. I’m not sure if this is true, but this year my Celtic roots must be coming strongly to the surface. Either that, or my inner Grinch needs to be squelched and the pumpkins need to be squashed in order to make room for some fragrant wreaths and cheery mistletoe.

Are you passing on love or are you passing on pain? Heal your pain and pass on love.

The Best Gift

I think that sometimes the best gift of the holidays is the true appreciation of your regular life.  You think that you want everything in excess:  food, drink, company, stuff, lights, decorations, activity, invitations, shopping, gifts, etc. until you are totally gorged and then the feeling of being back to your regular routine is one of the best feelings in the whole wide world.  It’s nice to see and experience your regular, routine life as a peaceful, wonderful gift.

A friend of mine texted this Facebook post to our friend group yesterday:

“The happiest people I know are evaluating and improving themselves.  The unhappy people are usually evaluating and judging others.”

This time of year tends to bring out the extremes in people, the best and the worst in us all.  I think that’s a great quote to keep in the back of my mind, the mind that I want to keep happy and peaceful, and the only mind I have any control over.

Happy Cyber Monday!  If anyone is offering a discount on cash today, please let me know via the comments.  Cash seems to be what my kids want for Christmas this year. 😉  Have a great day, my friends!  It’s so nice to be back with you in a regular kind of way.