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Organization and simplification expert Marcia Ramsland tackles the holidays with an eight-week plan designed to make Christmas a season of celebration, not stress. The planner addresses all the details of the busy holiday season - buying, wrapping and sending presents, sending Christmas cards, home decorations, cooking, baking and more. What sets this planner apart is a day-by-day plan that breaks every task into manageable pieces. In addition, a daily devotional journal keeps you focused on the reason for all the activity - replacing panic with a spirit of praise!
Format: Other
Number of Pages: 144
Vendor: Thomas Nelson
Publication Date: 2008
| Dimensions: 10.00 X 8.00 (inches)
ISBN: 1401604145
ISBN-13: 9781401604141
Availability: In Stock
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Organization and simplification expert Marcia Ramsland tackles the holidays with an eight-week plan designed to make Christmas a season of celebration, not stress. Most people begin to prepare for Christmas as soon as Thanksgiving is over, which can create great stress since Thanksgiving happens at a different time every year. However, Halloween is consistently eight weeks before Christmas, so beginning then ensures enough time to prepare and plan for both Christmas and Thanksgiving and to make this a season of joy for yourself and your family. This planner addresses all the details of the busy holiday season, including buying, wrapping, and sending presents, sending Christmas cards, home decorations, and cooking and baking. What sets this planner apart is a day-by-day plan that breaks every task into manageable pieces and a daily devotional journal that keeps the reader focused on the reason for all the activity, encouraging a spirit of praise, not panic.
The holidays may be a trying time for many but they need not be according to Marcia Ramsland author of Simplify Your Holidays: a Classic Christmas Planner to use Year after Year. Her organizing ideas can be seen in national magazines and heard on radio programs. This book holiday organization is another step in sharing ideas for busy lives.
To keep a balance of the many things we need to do while keeping our focus on the spiritual reason for the season Marcia has a plan. This plan can be tailored for your family’s needs. Included are various expert’s advice on subjects such as money saving tips on holiday gifts, tips on successful Christmas card photos, tips for the working woman, entertaining tips to serve fabulous food and impress your guests, and my favorite, tips to celebrate without gaining weight. You are encouraged to take photos of your holiday event, décor, meals and record what you want to remember and tips for the next year (like winner gift ideas) and insert them in folders provided in the notebook style binder.
Throughout December Marcia helps the reader to daily take time for the Christmas story (Luke 2). Day by day she shares the historic story of the birth of Christ with scripture following it with a reflective review, application for today, and a thoughtful prayer. Each and every day she ends with a holiday tip.
Marcia makes you think, evaluate your style, simplify to what is important and to anticipate problems so that you can avoid them. She has questions to ask yourself before you send cards this holiday season, has a strategy to keep decorating simple, even a labeling system for boxing up the décor.
Wrapping it up she includes extra pages that allow this notebook to be used again and again. Making, recording, and creating special memories this book is a treasure and even a unique gift to be given or received. - Debra S. Murphy, www.ChristianBookPreviews.com
Marcia Ramsland, well known as The Organizing Pro for her practical skills and tips to manage busy lives, has been a professional organizer since 1985. She is a highly sought-after speaker and personal consultant, appears on TV and radio, and has tips in national magazines. The author of Simplify Your Life and Simplify Your Time, Marcia recently reorganized the spaces in her home by relocating from San Diego to Dallas.
"Organizing Pro" Helps Bring True Christmas Joy Back to the Holidays
NASHVILLE - Each year as the decorations go up, do you kick yourself for getting lost in the busy-ness of the season? Do you ever long just to stop the madness and celebrate the true reason for Christmas?
In Simplify Yor Holidays (Thomas Nelson, September 2008) bestselling author and nationally recognized organizing pro, Marcia Ramsland, focuses on the little steps that it takes to have a simple, beautiful, and Christ-filled Christmas.
Simplify Your Holidays is a beautifully designed spiral-bound planner filled with everything you need, from lists to tips to schedules that can be used year after year. "Getting organized and starting early allows you to turn what can be the most stressful time of the year into the celebration you've always imagined," says Ramsland. "So, I put together a plan and a planner that has returned to me a Christmas season of delightful days of worship, relationship, and joy."
Ramsland has taken the purpose of Simplify Your Christmas a bit further and provided an encouraging, and much-needed, 30-day devotional for December. Filled with Scripture and wisdom, the devotional journal helps keep the focus directed toward Jesus. By using the unique, day-to-day, 8-week plan, every job is broken up into a more manageable task.
Let this holiday be the celebration it was meant to be. With Simplify Your Holidays, you may even find time to sit down on January 2, have a cup of coffee, count your blessings, and thank God for this time of worship and wonder.
Average Rating: 2 out of 5 stars(2 out of 5 stars)
3 of 3 Reviews Showing: 5 out of 5 stars
Reviewed by Sara Herbaugh (Bella Vista, AR), July 30, 2009 Great! The author really thought of everything. Makes me feel like I am on top of the holidays and can really enjoy them. 0.5 out of 5 stars
Reviewed by Tracy Lambert (England), July 14, 2009 I am horrified that the forms in this book are almost identicle to the forms found on the Organised Christmas website (which offers them to print for free). I've been using those forms for many years now- and they are very distinctive. Minor alterations in design really don't disguise the work done by someone else over many years. Really shocked!!! 1 out of 5 stars
Reviewed by JLS (Cincinnati), July 13, 2009 I recently looked at this book at the local Christian bookstore and was outraged. The content of this book was copied, almost verbatim, from a very popular Christmas organization website without permission. Write a review of Simplify Your Holidays: A Christmas Planner to Use Year After Year
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