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The holiday season is closing in fast, and with it the panic. Who needs to be on my shopping list? What can I get them? How much can I spend? What kind of cookies should I bake, what meals should I try, where am I going to put up the tree? In this age of hustle-and-bustle, it’s easy to get so caught up in the holidays that we forget to enjoy ourselves. We over-schedule, over-spend, over-indulge, and come away feeling empty. For a lot of us, money is a big issue and time isn’t much better. By celebrating simply, we can cut out the unnecessary baggage that comes along with the holidays and focus on what really counts: our Lord and our family. In Celebrate Simply Nancy Twigg shares her own experiences with holiday overload, from the fiasco that was supposed to be The Perfect Christmas to the tension surrounding The Ideal Wedding. Twigg pulls no punches about the stuff-crazed society we all get caught up in, but right after pointing out the problems, she offers simple solutions and a ton of great ideas to help you streamline and simplify every holiday, from Thanksgiving and Christmas to weddings and birthdays. Each section begins with history about the holiday, which helps us to see what we should be focusing on as Christians. She wants to help us all put the spiritual significance back into the special days, and by pointing out what that is, it’s easy to see where she gets some of her great ideas for how to stay focused on it. She offers advice for family outings and charity work right along with how to make a gift basket and have that perfect present available for giving any time. The best thing about this book is the practical advice. She actually gives simple gift ideas that can easily be personalized, from the homemade to the sales-rack to the clutter-free. There’s a comprehensive index in the back to categorize them all and give you some great starting points. I started brainstorming even as I read it, and I’m actually excited about getting started on what I had been dreading up until now. It’s also really easy to go just to the section you most need at that time, rather than having to read the whole thing in a sitting to get her point. Celebrate Simply is a fabulous resource that any shopper and planner should flip through before hitting the malls or the drawing board. I’m going to be going back to this book a lot throughout the year for advice and ideas; it’s already helped me focus on what the upcoming holidays are really about. It’ll not only help you fine-tune your gift giving, it would also make a great gift itself for that chronic holiday-overloader who starts each new year with too much stress from the preceding two months. Thank you, Nancy! Let’s hope we can all learn from your experience! Publisher: Kregel
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