Christmas!

Wow, hasn't it been a while since I last posted! It is a bit sad really...sorry for being so slack. In my own defence though, I have been really busy! Business is going sensationally well, I am still working part time, and the children are just so flat out all of the time!

Now it is almost Christmas...a time of fun and festivity. But there is a serious side to Christmas. For some people, it is the worst time of the year, frought with sadness and dispair. It is the time of year when suicide is at it's highest rate. The road toll seems to increase. People send themselves broke. At Aspect & Element, we have a few tips to help you get through the silly season as safely as possible.

1. DRIVE SAFELY!! Not only do people die needlessly, but the families suffer. The Paramedics, Nurse, Doctors, Firies and Police feel it too. Imagine going to road accident after road accident, scraping people out of their cars, and then having to tell the families that they wont be spending Christmas with their loved one? Not nice for any body involved.

2. Spare a thought for our Military families.....all they want for Christmas is to be together.

3. If possible, LOCK your letterbox! I know this from experience, as just yesterday some dirty little thief tried to open my Christmas cards, apparently in the search for money (unfortunately for them all of my friends and family are broke, so we never get money in a card!).Better still, dont send cash via post!

4. Dont advertise what you got....leaving a huge empty Plasma TV box out the front lets would be thieves know what is inside.

5. Dont make Christmas all about the gifts, find other ways of showing each other how much you care. Have a baking day, and deliver your loved one's favourite meal to them. Get the kids to make something nice to give as a gift. And if you have a large family, hold a Kris Kringle. That way every one gets a gift, and you are only buying for one person.

6. Drink responsibly....you want to be able to have great memories of the time spent with loved one, instead of the way you got to intimately know your toilet bowl.

7. Give a gift to a random stranger. How lovely would that be, to receive a gift from someone you don't know?!

8. Love. Nothing more. Just love.

We hope that you have a safe and Merry Christmas, and will join us again in the new year when I promise to keep up to date with the blog posts. :)

Merry Christmas everyone!!!!