Comments on: I Am Thankful for a Relaxed Holiday Season http://onlinegratitudejournal.com/i-am-thankful-for-a-relaxed-holiday-season/ --- a Life of Gratitude and Grins Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:56:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Laury Bourgeois http://onlinegratitudejournal.com/i-am-thankful-for-a-relaxed-holiday-season/comment-page-1/#comment-250 Laury Bourgeois Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:36:23 +0000 http://onlinegratitudejournal.com/?p=1281#comment-250 We will be relaxing here at the Chatette too, except for my foray into Christmas cookie making leading up to Christmas day. It's fun for me to try my hand, since my Mom has always made at least 25 different kinds of cookies every Christmas. She isn't baking them anymore now that she has her hands full with Dad. I'm making my second attempt at Pecan Balls this year, with firsts for peanut butter, oatmeal, candied orange walnuts and who knows what else will spark my interest! Imagine, a gas oven with NO temperature gauge, only one cookie sheet, and no such thing as crisco in France! Mom did give me an oven thermometer and a candy thermometer that I brought home from the states this trip! I'll keep you guys posted on how it goes! Happy Holidays to Everyone! You are such a welcome addition to my life-With Love at the Holdiays-Laury We will be relaxing here at the Chatette too, except for my foray into Christmas cookie making leading up to Christmas day. It’s fun for me to try my hand, since my Mom has always made at least 25 different kinds of cookies every Christmas. She isn’t baking them anymore now that she has her hands full with Dad. I’m making my second attempt at Pecan Balls this year, with firsts for peanut butter, oatmeal, candied orange walnuts and who knows what else will spark my interest! Imagine, a gas oven with NO temperature gauge, only one cookie sheet, and no such thing as crisco in France! Mom did give me an oven thermometer and a candy thermometer that I brought home from the states this trip! I’ll keep you guys posted on how it goes! Happy Holidays to Everyone! You are such a welcome addition to my life-With Love at the Holdiays-Laury

]]> By: Maya http://onlinegratitudejournal.com/i-am-thankful-for-a-relaxed-holiday-season/comment-page-1/#comment-249 Maya Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:27:14 +0000 http://onlinegratitudejournal.com/?p=1281#comment-249 Niels, I knew you and your family were going to be chilled out for the holidays. Stress seems to be the antithesis of the concept, doesn't it? Oh well, one of my sons is coming home. Unfortunately, he and his wife are not bringing my two grandchilren (LeRoy and Beatrix.... Great Dane and Boxer) so I did express a little dissatisfaction. But, I suppose there will be more food for all if the Dane stays at the farm. I am delighted that you and your family will be together. Enjoy. Happy Holidays and Peace to You and Yours. Niels,

I knew you and your family were going to be chilled out for the holidays. Stress seems to be the antithesis of the concept, doesn’t it?

Oh well, one of my sons is coming home. Unfortunately, he and his wife are not bringing my two grandchilren (LeRoy and Beatrix…. Great Dane and Boxer) so I did express a little dissatisfaction. But, I suppose there will be more food for all if the Dane stays at the farm.

I am delighted that you and your family will be together. Enjoy.

Happy Holidays and Peace to You and Yours.

]]> By: Niels Windfeld Lund http://onlinegratitudejournal.com/i-am-thankful-for-a-relaxed-holiday-season/comment-page-1/#comment-248 Niels Windfeld Lund Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:10:06 +0000 http://onlinegratitudejournal.com/?p=1281#comment-248 Hi Maya, got my grant proposal submitted and now I can relax and the most wonderful thing is that my wife and to some extent our youngest son, coming home for Christmas, agree to have a relaxed Christmas, no panic and no drama ! in my childhood we had too much drama at Christmas Eve ! and it was not my mothers fault ! she have always had a relaxed attitude to all this and try to make the fest a real fest, if you understand ! so I hope you will have a relaxed Christmas as well and going back to the aging ! we are both 60 and perhaps it is therefore we can afford to relax since I see many of my former students, around 30-40 being very stressed about doing it "properly" (a very used word in Norway in this time of the year !!) including cleaning, cooking and dressing up !! no I love people like you or ms moon, celebrating Christmas like this, http://www.blessourhearts.net/2008/12/we-made-it.html and I think it is in this way we can keep feeling young despite our bones and legs are getting weaker and so forth ! so I am so thankful for having found you and all the others ! it is a daily relief to feel that I am ok in the way I am lol xo niels:) Hi Maya, got my grant proposal submitted and now I can relax and the most wonderful thing is that my wife and to some extent our youngest son, coming home for Christmas, agree to have a relaxed Christmas, no panic and no drama ! in my childhood we had too much drama at Christmas Eve ! and it was not my mothers fault ! she have always had a relaxed attitude to all this and try to make the fest a real fest, if you understand ! so I hope you will have a relaxed Christmas as well and going back to the aging ! we are both 60 and perhaps it is therefore we can afford to relax since I see many of my former students, around 30-40 being very stressed about doing it “properly” (a very used word in Norway in this time of the year !!) including cleaning, cooking and dressing up !! no I love people like you or ms moon, celebrating Christmas like this, http://www.blessourhearts.net/2008/12/we-made-it.html and I think it is in this way we can keep feeling young despite our bones and legs are getting weaker and so forth ! so I am so thankful for having found you and all the others ! it is a daily relief to feel that I am ok in the way I am lol xo niels:)

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