If your like me, the holidays tend to wipe me out so if you want to start a small project, why don't you start with updating your address book! Pop in a movie for the kids or have them play with their new Christmas toys in your family room. Get in your comfy chair, grab a nice warm blanket and some delicious hot cocoa.
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Let's begin! Sit down with a planner or computer, and that big box of holiday greeting cards you just got from family and friends this holiday season. You may read to your heart's content, but you must make note of new addresses.
Star any names whose holiday cards were returned because of an incorrect address. During the year to come, be on the lookout for a new address.
Friends are too important to lose for want of an address!
Double-check telephone numbers. Make a note of new FAX numbers.
E-mail addresses make it easy to keep in touch with friends --- so note them in your address book.
Christmas cards contain lots of valuable information. You'll never again bumble and stumble over the telephone, desperately trying to remember what an old school friend named her newest baby, if you add a line for "Children:" listing names and birth dates of those precious little ones.
Make special note of those who've lost family members in the last year. Erasing the "Mr. and . . ." part of an address is a sad chore, but a misaddressed card from an out-of-touch friend can create a small but intense freshet of grief for the newly bereaved.
This year I'm doing something very new! I've started a list of "Letters to Send", sparked by those cards or letters that move you to respond as you read. This year one of my New Years Resolution will be writing just one letter a week for the next year, you can treat over 50 of your friends and family to a special gift --- an unexpected letter from you, written at leisure and just because you want to!
Schedule weekly letter-writing to tighten the ties that bind you to loved ones. If once a week is to much, what about once a month. That's just twelve letters to friends or loved one for the year. I'm sure you know twelve wonderful people who would be delighted to receive a special letter in the mail. Think about this.... How would you feel to get a letter from a childhood friend or a special family member. I know how I would feel, my heart would melt!
While you're organizing your address book, think about the last five or ten times you looked up phone numbers in the phone book. Pizza delivery, a child's school, donation center, a volunteer co-worker?
Add just those five or ten listings to your address book to save time and energy in the coming year.
Remember, we want you to have fun, be relaxed and ready for 2014!!!
Happy New Year!
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