Depending on how you count…we have 12 days until Christmas or just began the 12 days of Christmas. As we begin the busiest days of the season, I have a challenge for VN readers:
Visit this post each day over the next 12 days and post a positive thought or something for which you are grateful this year/season. Consider it your one minute centering stop, a place to take a deep breath and/or realign your thoughts.
And for those of you who started the Hannukah celebration yesterday, feel free to use this post as well.
What do you think? Are you up to the challenge?
/sheila
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