<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Christmas-Tips on Late Blooms</title><link>/tags/christmas-tips/</link><description>Recent content in Christmas-Tips on Late Blooms</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="/tags/christmas-tips/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Simplifying Christmas - 5 Tips</title><link>/posts/simplifying-christmas-5-tips/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/posts/simplifying-christmas-5-tips/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We expect too much at Christmas. It&amp;rsquo;s got to be magical. It&amp;rsquo;s got to go right. Feasting. Fun. The perfect present. All that anticipation. Take it easy. Love&amp;rsquo;s the thing. The rest is tinsel. (Pam Brown)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;All the preparations have started for the big day - December 25th.   Christmas is one of those times that we imbue with special meaning and significance.   We want everything to be just right, perhaps, even perfect.   I was thinking about this and trying to understand how we got ourselves into this mode of thinking.  More important, though, is how can we get ourselves out?&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>