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My favorite Christmas song has been Carol of the Bells for many years now. I found this great video to share with you -

What’s your favorite? Feel free to share links to videos in the comments.

Don’t you forget the Words to your favorite Christmas songs – free download

Have a little fun at your Christmas gatherings with the Christmas Quiz – free download

The holidays are all about good food right? OK, and a few gifts I’ve done something extra to help you get through. I opened up the free trials at Rebel With a Fork to 30 days so you can grab recipes and the bonus ebooks and not have to worry about billing. This will give you plenty of time to look around and check everything out. There’s great last minute gift basket ideas in the The Gift Basket ebook, and over 500 chocolate recipes in the Chocolate ebook. So you’ll have plenty of good stuff to get you through the Holidays! I’m taking care of you! This is a limited time offer – Check it out! Take a look at the members area, and follow the link to join now – Rebel With a Fork Members Area >>>

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How’s your Thanksgiving prep coming along?

I was flipping through the sale papers today finalizing my plans. It’s going to be another weird year here. My daughter is going with her boyfriend. It looks like my big dinner will be Christmas this year. Thanksgiving will be a small affair here, and then we’ll have another dinner at my sister’s on Saturday.

It’s tough balancing everyone’s family obligations.

But I wanted to make sure that I’m keeping you on track!

This weekend you should have the house cleaned, and everything but the fresh foods bought. I’m going to get the fresh stuff Tuesday. Monday is a bad day to buy fresh stuff, and Wednesday will be a circus.

Don’t forget things like foil, napkins, toliet paper… There’s a whole list of things to remember in your copy of Dance Through Thanksgiving. I’ve been stocking up on butter while it’s on sale too, and just throwing it in the freezer for cookie baking emergencies

I thought about tweeting or blogging a blow by blow description of making the dinner. I wonder if anyone is interested?

If you’re on Twitter, you can follow @CarolesRants

Let me know if you have any questions.

Have a great weekend. My daughter’s 18^th birthday is coming up, and she wants to go shopping, and out for a nice dinner. No fast food for this girl. Wonder where she got that from???

Yeah, we’re spoiled.

You can be spoiled too -

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Boy, it’s been a busy week here. How about yours?

And to think that Thanksgiving is right around the corner! YIKES!

There are a few things you can do this weekend to give you a leg up. First, did you pick up your copy of Dance Through Thanksgiving? That report will give you all sorts of shortcuts, and even take you step-by-step through making a knock-out traditional dinner. And if you’re a member over at Rebel With a Fork – you’ll have even more recipes, and great fast recipes to get you through the weeknight time overload shuffle with extra energy to burn.

Did you look at the grocery store sale papers this week?

All of the baking supplies are on sale. Don’t only be thinking about Thanksgiving dessert, think about holiday parties, holiday gifts, cookies, … I always grab butter when it’s on sale and throw it in the freezer. We’ve gotten so spoiled that we have home-baked cookies a lot more often. We can hardly stomach the store-bought stuff anymore.

This week, you should pick up all of the non-perishables you’ll need for your big Thanksgiving dinner. Don’t forget things like dishes, glasses, silverware, a good knife for cutting the turkey, napkins, tablecloth, etc. There’s a great list in Dance Through Thanksgiving.

Give your house a good top-to-bottom cleaning. If you already follow Secret Confessions of a Clean Freak, this won’t be much of a problem, will it?

Just those few extra little things will make your life so much easier in a couple weeks!

Oh, you’re thinking – Yeah, I know, but I’m busy. I’ll get to it later…”

Listen, I’m filling the new website, the spa is going through a computer system conversion this weekend, there’s hours of extra training and prep work, I’m super busy too. And I know that I’ll always be super busy. It never stops, does it? My whole secret is knocking little things off ahead of time or I’ll never make it.

You’re going to the grocery store anyway. Make your Thanksgiving dinner list and buy those few extra things this week. You’ll save time and sanity, and you’ll break down the expense so you’re not taking the hit all at one time. (the same principle works for Christmas shopping too)

I know – nag, nag, nag. You’ll thank me later

OK, it’s here – time to start thinking about getting ready for Thanksgiving.

What? Seems to early? Hey guys, it’s only a few weeks away. If you use my systems – you’ll breeze right through it, no matter how busy you are.

  Dance Through Thanksgiving

Here’s your total Thanksgiving planner. Everything from shopping to menu planning to step by step dinner preparations.

Do you have a room that could a little sprucing up before the holidays?

You’ve been meaning to paint, but it can be a real pain, can’t it? This free report will help you break this pain in the neck job down into little bite sized chunks so you can Paint a Room Next Weekend (and survive it)

OK – download them and get going

This is such a nice laid back day of the year, isn’t it?

Well, I guess that depends which camp you’re in.

A lot of people spend it just hanging out with family and/or friends, eating, watching football, playing cards and what not.

Then, there’s the crazy shopping bunch.

Which camp are you in?

No matter how you choose to spend your day today – I hope you enjoy it fully!

Here’s wishing you a Very Happy, Healthy, Prosperous 2009!

Carole

Oh, almost forgot – Tony Robbins has a new video blog. Check it out!