Most Wonderful Time of the Year!

Yay! I can officially started decorating for my favorite holiday!

Not like I haven't been listening to carols and singing along to them for the last few months but now everyone else has finally caught up with me. LOL!

What is your favorite things during the holiday season? Mine is just about everything. The decorations; snow and the cold weather (that is why I moved back to CT, folks), the feeling you get, seeing people treat one another in a kinder, more compassionate way.

I'm not a huge fan of getting presents but love making things and giving them. I guess that is why I love to sew, crochet and knit. I love to create items that can be most used during this time but also make a lot of shawls that can be used spring or fall. Those seem to be my best sellers, actually.

Whatever you are doing this holiday season, make it fun, filled with laughter and much love! All the best of the season to you today and always.

How Time Passes...

Wow! I haven't been consistent in posting the last few months. Hope you all have been doing well and enjoyed your summer. What a hot one it was here!

Can you believe it is already the end of the year and we are heading into the mysterious 2012? We had a freak snow storm a couple days before Halloween and it left us with 12-17 inches of snow all over New England. There is still a lot of snow that is melting even now, almost two weeks later. I don't recall it ever snowing this early when I lived out here years and years ago. I was told it was not the usual so does that mean another crazy winter for New England like last winter? Yikes!

I have been so busy with work, writing my book, editing a novel for someone, working out and hanging with friends. I'm also getting ready to go home to Cali for a visit next week and staying through the holiday. It made me think how we go through our days without realizing how time truly passes us by so quick.

Do you take the time to let each person in your life know how much you appreciate them and love them? Not because some holiday rolls around or you happen to see them but any time you think of them. If you have a minute or two, you should. In this day and age of technology, you can send a quick text that says how you feel. "Thanks for being a part of my life and I love you." One day, you may lose that special person and you won't see them anymore. How will that make you feel knowing you may have not said it enough? Right?

This time of year rolls around and people get softer, kinder and become more compassionate with family, friends, neighbors and even total strangers.

I think it has to do with how we were brought up, especially here in the U.S. In our childhood, the weather gets cold and our parents start to talk about Santa coming. They remind us that we need to be good girls and boys or he won't be bringing any presents for us. So what did we do? That's right! We did our chores without being told. We listened and minded our manners. We didn't fight with our siblings (as much). We were nice. We were kind to everyone. We were anticipating the arrival of something good.

I think that the cold weather triggers something in us as adults and our psyche remembers what we learned so naturally we become nicer, gentler and more compassionate with our family, friends, neighbors, co-workers and even total strangers. We remember that feeling of goodness with the cold and we pass it on.

I wish I could bottle that feeling up and spread it throughout the year so that we live in a world that is filled with laughter, kindness, compassion and love.

How about the next time you think of someone in your life, you stop for a moment and send a quick text or email to let them know you appreciate them? It may only take you a minute to do but they will hold that moment in their heart, until they die. One small gesture can change a person's day or even their life.

I may not know many of you but I do appreciate you stopping by and want to thank each and every one of you for reading my blog.

Until the next time, with gratitude.