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When it all gets too much, we can always learn a lesson from our advent calendar and just take December day by day.

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Our lives totally changed that summer and fall of 2006. It is most noticed during the holiday season. Rather than dwell on what has past, we have made new traditions.

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I felt like I should not, and could not, enjoy certain things.

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Don’t text your ex. 

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There’s a song for when you’re single and hoping not to get hurt again. A song for when you’re missing a loved one you lost. And a song for when you’re hoping a certain someone finally kisses you this December.

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You don’t want to agree to too many favors at once. You don’t want your to-do list to run a mile long. You don’t want to be overloaded by your responsibilities. You don’t want to burn yourself out.

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It should be the year you work on ridding yourself of baggage, getting over your deepest insecurities, and learning to love yourself unconditionally.

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You shouldn’t push yourself too hard. You shouldn’t put too much on your plate at once. You shouldn’t create a lifestyle where you are bound to burn out. 

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Wanting nothing to do with a holiday you used to love doesn’t make you a Grinch. It makes you someone with a heart who has lost a part of that heart.

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If you don’t want this person in your world for the other 364 days of the year, then why would you bother to speak to them on the holidays?