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The night before Christmas

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In 1998 we bought our son, for his first ever Christmas, the book ‘The night before Christmas’ by Clement C Moore.

Every year since, on Christmas Eve, we have read it as a family, wherever we have been and whoever has been there to listen to it.

Variety in life is important, but so are the little traditions that grow up in your life too. Our son is 17 now and we all still want to listen to it today.

These are the things that you will remember at the end of the journey, not what bills you paid, stuff you bought or how much money you earnt.

Enjoy the small traditions that you have with the people who matter in life.

This time last year

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23 December 2014
23 December 2014

This time last year, where were you with you life?

What worries did you have? What was concerning you for 2015?

How many of them have actually happened? How many of them became reality?

If they did, what were the consequences? How many of them if they did, were anywhere near as bad as we had imagined?

I’m guessing most of them, like 99.9% of them, didn’t happen. The very few that might, were nowhere near as bad as we’d feared. I’m guessing we coped with all the challenges thrown our way in 2015, and I’m guessing we learnt a good deal from each of them.

This time next year sit back a say, I am glad I didn’t worry much in 2016.