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Happy Thanksgiving to all! Make it a safe and blessed one. Enjoy your families, friends, neighbors and the delicious food around you. We may be far apart but we are one here together.💖🦃🍠🥧

@iamashortdiva,

Happy Thanksgiving in NC and I hope you see this. ✨😎😘💕Wishing you and your
family a great Thanksgiving Day. 🌹

Avoiding Holiday Stress

Much of the tension we feel during the holidays is a direct result of our own expectations.

For many people, the advent of autumn heralds the start of a stressful holiday season. From November to January, we feel pressured to be wonderful hosts, entertain scores of loved ones, and remain calm amid chaos. Yet much of the tension we feel during the holidays is a direct result of our own expectations. In our efforts to please others and to craft the ultimate celebration, we overextend ourselves and miss out on the spirit of the season. This year, consider transforming your approach to your celebrations. Instead of striving for perfection, endeavor to enjoy the treats that only come once a year, the company of family and friends, and the little unexpected occurrences that make each holiday unique. Before you begin your whirlwind of seasonal preparations, ask yourself what aspects of each holiday are most important to you and what holiday-related goals you hope to achieve this year.

As the holiday season draws nearer, resolving to give up your dreams of perfection can help you avoid anxiety. If you strive to have a good holiday, you can take charge of arrangements without feeling that your loved ones’ happiness is resting on your shoulders. Try to remember that you are unique, which means that your holiday experience need not conform to that of your parents, your neighbors, or the simulated families you see in the media. Understand that you cannot please everyone. After all, what the people you care about likely want most during the holiday season is your time and attention. Allow yourself to decline invitations without guilt and to serve store-bought foods rather than homemade dishes if it means you get more time to relax in the company of friends and family.

If stress strikes, remember that holidays encompass but a few days out of each year. Enjoying those few days is often a matter of identifying your motives and shifting gears if necessary. Ask yourself whether your quest for perfection is a matter of impressing others or gathering the people you care about around you in celebration. A year from now, you’ll have only a handful of vivid memories to look back on. If you take a realistic and heartfelt view of the holidays, you’ll be sure to remember them fondly. AMEN! 😎✨

@kittengirl,

Good morning in Cali and may this day finds you doing well. I have a hand full going on.
What’s new?? Sending Thanksgiving Blessings to you and your family. Kitten take care of
the kitties and yourself. ✨😘

Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family. ✨😎

@shoelady60,

Good day in the beautiful ‘burgh. 😘✨Here is to great Hockey and Football and good food.

I hope your team wins. Give your mother and sister a nice Thanksgiving Greetings from OZ. ✨

Thinking of Jake right about now. Blowing a kiss to his Canvas and to you. 😘💕😎

Happy Thanksgiving to you and your entire family. 😘✨

@71flowerchild,

Howdy in the Land of Enchantments wish you and yours a wonderful Thanksgiving Week. ✨

Make sure Jewell and Little D get a bone or two. 😜😘

@taci,

Good morning in S. California I hope you have a nice hike. 😎😘I do have the jacket
to protect Poppy from Coyotes and I keep something on me just in case. 😎

I am cooking sweet potatoes and will make my pies today. My mother is making Pumpkin
pies. ✨We have a very large family so everyone is making something in Colorado.😘✨

We will say grace and I will spend some FaceTime or Zoom with my family. 💕🌹

Our kids will spend Thanksgiving with my sister and I will see them too. ✨✨

Taci enjoy the view today OZ is nice for fall. 😜

@oodiebom,

Good day on the Gulf Coast Oodie you have a lot going on. Let us know how your husband
is doing and I hope his PT went well and you were able to stop at the Market. 😘✨

Oodie things are coming together slowly but surely. My week has been busy all week
I am fine with that. 😎✨ I like to keep it moving. 😜

I do hope you are able to get a pooch or two when the time is right. 😘✨
Happy Thanksgiving to you and hubby. 💕🌹 I know you like candles and this just reminds me of you.

@xango,

Good afternoon in Florida and enjoy your baking today. 😘✨I think we are all cooking
and preparing something for tomorrow. 😘✨Whatever you decide I am sure it will be
delicious. Poppy and I had a nice long walk this morning we are cloudy but the temp is
not bad I can walk in rain, sleet and snow. The only temp that gets to me is in the hot and humid
summer. Yikes!!!

Happy Thanksgiving to you and your husband and may you both be blessed. ✨✨

@ddshoppy,

Happy Thanksgiving in S. California may you and your family be safe. ✨✨

Enjoy this special season. 😎🌹

defg,

I hope you and your family have a wonderful Thanksgiving Week in Maryland. ✨✨

@loaf,

To All in the HSN Community. ✨