Week Nine of the HG Labs Holiday Planning Notebook-Thanksgiving Week

Make this Thanksgiving a Stress-Free Holiday

Stay on Budget:  Remember that being together is more important than what you have or have not.

“Get Your Game Plan On”:  Review your HG Labs Holiday Planning Notebook to make sure you are on target.  Is your meal plan complete?   Are rooms ready for your guests?  Are decorations in order?  Make a list and check it off as you complete a task.  This helps to insure that you do not forget something.

Cook tomorrow (Wed.) for less stress:  If you have not done this before, why not give it a try.  As much as you can do on Wednesday will free you up to be with the friends and family on Thanksgiving.  Our readers have given us some great holiday recipe ideas if you are in the mood for a little change. 

Decorations:  Set your table the night before if possible or have everything handy when it’s time to set the table.  A fun and inexpensive table decoration for your children to do are: name tags.  Take a posterboard or cardstock paper and cut out rectangles to make name tags for each placesetting.  Fold the rectangles in half lengthwise.  Older siblings can write the name of each guest on each name tag.  Younger children can add festive stickers to the tags.  (Many younger children enjoy being included in the holiday preparations!)

Cleaning:  Be sure all bathrooms are in order and guest rooms are ready to go!  Vacuum your rugs, carpets and Brightly Green clean your floors with Brightly Green Wood Floor Cleaner Concentrate. Quick Tips!  Have ready your Carpet & Upholstery Cleaner Spot Remover Concentrate and Brightly Green Multi-Purpose Cleaner Concentrate handy on Thanksgiving Day.  Accidents happen; be prepared! 

One of our wonderful readers sent us some Thanksgiving thoughts.                                            

Thank you Judy S.

“For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.  The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet… Shall we think of the day as a chance to come nearer to our Host, and to find out something of Him who has fed us so long?”

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.  It turns what we have into enough, and more.  It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity.  It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.  Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.”

Have a Blessed Thanksgiving from all of us at Brightly Green!

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