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A Chic Paris Holiday Season – Day 23 – Joyeux Noël!
December 25, 2020 Joyeux Noël and Merry Christmas! My intention for today is to revel in the feeling of thankfulness. It was a lovely morning as I made my coffee and enjoyed both the quiet of puttering about in the kitchen by myself and memories of Christmases when the children were younger and they woke my husband and me up much earlier. Coffee back then happened after the noise and excitement of present opening. Today, the lure of presents drew them out of bed earlier than their usual mid-morning preferred vacation rising time. After present opening & breakfast (& more coffee), I wandered down rue Passy to get the day’s…
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A Chic Paris Holiday Season – Day 22 – Counting Down to Christmas Day – Intention
December 24, 2020 In A Chic & Simple Christmas, Fiona Ferris encourages us to do a mental walk-through of our Christmas celebrations so that we mentally prepare ourselves to experience the day as we choose to do. When we set our intention and our mental attitude, we are more in control of how we interpret and react to the events of the day. I’ve been practicing with “setting my intention” for the past few days. Not to practice for handling comments or difficult family members but to see if I can collect myself even before the day begins and set a peaceful, calm mood (that can hopefully last through the…