December 2006
Joan Small - About Me
Poem - Christmas Casements
Jokes & Quotes about gratitude and joy
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Christmas - Children and Energy

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• Be curious - Be interested in the world around you, and ask questions
• Be active - Babies use their whole bodies to show emotions. Demonstrate your joy of life by skipping, dancing, running, or being outrageous
• Be imaginative and creative - create something every day - either in your imagination, or in reality. This will add to your pleasure.
• Be loving and responsive to others - greet people with a warm hug or a kiss. Show affection in many ways. Give and receive love.
• Enjoy music and energize your soul.
• Laugh and be playful. Did you know that adults laugh an average of just 15 times a day whereas young children laugh an average of 400 times a day?
• Sleep when you are tired, and go full-out when you are awake.
• Appreciate and be grateful. As we teach children to say 'thankyou', we must remember to say thankyou for all the good things in our lives.

Last week I watched in fascination as Priscilla talked to Ray Martin and a studio full of parents and young babies. She says there are only five words in a baby's early language, and they are: "neh", owh, eh, eairh and heh.

'neh' means "I'm hungry
"owh' means tiredness
'eh' comes when the baby wants to be burped
'eairh' means wind pain, and
'heh' is telling mum baby is uncomfortable; hot, cold or needing a nappy change.

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By understanding these sounds when the baby first utters them, parents are able to prevent baby winding up into a full-blown crying session. Peace reigns in the household, and Mum and Dad can re-gain their energy and the joy of parenting.

Baby Talk on Oprah - Video
If you want to see and hear how this works, you can watch the movie clip from the Oprah Winfrey show. There is a short ad before the Baby Talk bit comes on .... Click Here

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CHRISTMAS CASEMENTS

It’s Christmas. I’m strolling the streets in the night time.
The Gold Coast at Christmas transforms into light time.
The casements - the windows are shining and glimmering.
Gardens and rooftops are sparkling and shimmering.
Joyful and hopeful of gifts to be coming
The atmosphere’s buzzing. The heavens are humming.

I gaze through the glass and I see what’s behind,
The image of happiness runs through my mind.
The tree with its baubles – its tinsel and stars.
And soft Christmas music, the lilt of guitars.
In my mind’s eye I see all the children are wriggling.
With anticipation, excitement they’re giggling.

It’s how our lives should be. No hurt and no pain.
A new world created; we’re loving again.
Forget our past troubles, enjoy in this minute
For life is here now. Like a gift box we’re in it.
When beautiful windows all shine far and wide
Then peace comes to earth for one moment inside.

© Joan Small

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Jokes

Stay Healthy at Christmas
A man goes to the doctor and tells him that he hasn't been feeling well. The doctor examines him, leaves the room and comes back with three different bottles of pills. The doctor says, "Take the green pill with a big glass of water when you get up. Take the blue pill with a big glass of water after lunch. Then just before going to bed, take the red pill with another big glass of water."
Startled to be put on so much medicine the man stammers, "Jeez doc, exactly what's my problem?"
Doctor says, "You're not drinking enough water."
(see my November Newsletter about the health benefits of water)

Christmas Gifts and Celebrations
This weekend while shopping in a local toy store, I came across a long line of people waiting for a promised shipment of dolls from Mattel. I noticed a friend waiting with all the others. I knew my friend had no daughters or young relatives, so I figured he must like the dolls himself.
"Bill," I said going up to him, "I didn't know you were a Barbie doll collector!"
"I'm not," he replied.
"Oh," I said, "You're buying a gift, then."
"No, not at all," my friend responded.
"If you don't mind my asking then Bill," I said, "Why are you standing in this line?"
"Oh that," he answered. "It's like this," said my friend, "I've never been able to resist a barbie queue!

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. ...Albert Schweitzer

"Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality". ... Alfred Painter

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.” ...Johann Wolfgang Goethe

“Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.” ...Melba Colgrove

“Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.” ...Mother Teresa of Calcutta

“Joy is not in things; it is in us” ...Richard Wagner

Did you know that if you choose to be joyful enough, it's physically impossible to get angry, fret, stew, or worry? And that if you choose it often enough, it's physically impossible to be broke, sick, lonely, or confused.
Oh yeah.
Some things really are impossible.
The Universe (TUT - Totally Unique Thoughts)

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