Good morning from a rainy Kansas City! All back on track with Blogmas so on to today’s topic of Inspirations and Stories. Tamy who is hosting Blogmas over at Chasing My Life has some good ones so be sure to go check those out when you finish reading this post.
I’m going to go a slightly different direction with my Inspirations.
Inspirations
This is sort of an Advent but she states right in the beginning you can start reading it at any time during the season so that’s what I’ve done (mainly because I couldn’t find it on December 1, ha!). I find Simply Christmas to be so motivating. It reminds me where I should focus during this season.
Note, it is geared to moms with younger children. However, I still find most of the context relevant even with young adult children.
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The next inspiration just popped up in my inbox today and I fully plan to follow along with it. I needed to get back to this anyway. Faithful Workouts is doing a 12 days of Christmas countdown with motivational Christian messages plus there’s a link in the e-mails to the fitness calendar days.
I really enjoy the messages and the fact that the workouts are actually indeed 10 minutes long. No this is a 10 minute workout after we have 10 minutes of warm-up and 10 minutes of cool down. Um, that is a 30 minute workout. And even my lazy self feels it when I do the beginner chair workouts.
Christmas Stories
I’m not sure what to share here. Christmas stories makes me think of books. I’ve put out all the Christmas books every year since we’ve had kids, need to do that still this year. One of the board books in our basket is Carl’s Christmas.
This book used to aggravate my husband to no end. Seriously, they left the dog in charge of the baby while they went Christmas shopping? Ha! No imagination, I suppose.
I’ll go ahead and end the post by sharing my all-time favorite (how odd that we don’t own this in book form!) Christmas short story:
It is a very short story. You can read it here if you’d like.
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Tell me, what keeps you inspired at this time of year? Any favorite Christmas stories?