Skills For Success

Yesterday marked the beginning of the holiday season for me. My husband and I wandered through “Christmas Stress” -- oops, I meant "Christmas Street" in the Bay’s flagship store in Toronto, Ontario.

We strolled by the store’s holiday windows outside, each decorated with animated characters depicting various scenes from the Victorian era. We even had our picture taken with two elves. 

The same evening we went to the Holland Park Gallery Gardens’ Christmas open house with our kids and grandkids. The fact that we could hardly find a parking spot was our first clue that the place was packed with holiday shoppers. 

I found myself saying, “It can’t be that time of year already!”   I could feel the stress of holidays slowly rising inside. That was yesterday.

Today I took control of that stress. Time to make a list of the gifts I have been stockpiling over the last ten months to see what I have and what I need to buy.

Then armed with the toy catalogue we went off to buy the “must have” toys for the little ones before there isn’t a transformer in sight! 

With my gift list almost complete now, I feel much more relaxed - at least about the gifts. It is that time of the year already, and I say “bring it on!”