Now that Christmas is over, I thought I would share with you the gifts I gave to my children this year “To Cherish”. For the past several years I have given each of my girls a piece to this beautiful nativity set. I started with “The Holy Family” and have added the sets each year. For one daughter, this was her first year at receiving the beginning set as she will be getting married this upcoming year and will have her own home to decorate. For two of my daughters, we are almost completely finished with the set. The gift
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Join us on the 25th of every month and be a part of our “Wisewomen’s Club” sponsored by “Finding Three Perfect Christmas Gifts”. We just finished Christmas and most of us are not ready to even THINK about Christmas again for many months. However, if you will take a moment to reflect on words you may have muttered such as “Next year, I am going to make sure I…..” . You may also be getting the after-Christmas blues after experiencing mental, physical and financial burnout. The purpose of this new club is to do small things all year long to
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We’ve all heard the warning to avoid coveting our neighbors property. It’s just one of the great Ten Commandments we learn from the Savior. It seems easy enough but I have found that regardless of my bank account, I can find those who have more and those who have less. It’s just which I chose to focus on. Just after Thanksgiving I was having some mixed emotions about decorating my pre-lit Christmas tree. My husband had brought it in from the garage and set it in our living room. It sat for a few days. I had observed many trees
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Christmas ornaments which are personalized will always be a keepsake as time goes on. I give all of my grandkids a “Baby’s First Christmas” ornament with their personal photo. I order mine from Walmart.com and they are usually around $10.00. You have a selection to chose from and can see what it will look like as you design it with their template on their website. There are other dough ornaments and other online stores which will personalize a family ornament and can also be given as family/neighbor gifts.
Santa brought a Nintendo Wii and so I provided some great family games like Family Fued, Mario Bro. Racing games and others. This is how our family coordinates with Santa!
Giving either a new journal or a journal written by a ancestor is a great “cherish” gift. This is one of my favorite items I purchased for myself at Swiss Days in Midway, UT. It is a company called FiveLittleLines.com and you can visit their site HERE. It is their philosophy that most of us have time to write 5 little lines a day. They also have a great system if you have special days that you need to write more than five lines. I find as I am writing in mine that this is not only achieveable but you
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The cherish gift is the most sentimental gift given in my opinion. It is usually the one that brings the tears or emotions. My husband’s mother had passed away prior to us meeting. I had met his mother briefly a few times in other circumstances. Everyone tells me what a polished, classy lady Elaine Bettridge was. I wanted to give my husband, his father, his siblings, aunts and uncles and his daughters a very special memory of her. I have a very talented friend, Monica Achter or Layton, Utah, who draws pictures of loved ones in the arms of the
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