{"id":4445,"date":"2012-12-25T05:58:28","date_gmt":"2012-12-25T10:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/ourladyofweightloss\/?p=4445"},"modified":"2012-12-25T05:58:28","modified_gmt":"2012-12-25T10:58:28","slug":"8-christmas-quotes-wrap-your-day-in-ho-ho-ho-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/ourladyofweightloss\/2012\/12\/8-christmas-quotes-wrap-your-day-in-ho-ho-ho-happiness.html","title":{"rendered":"8 Christmas Quotes:  Wrap Your Holiday in Ho Ho Ho Happiness!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4446\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/100\/2012\/12\/HO-Ho-HO-20121-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/>One of my favorite things to do when having dinner parties &#8212; especially a holiday party &#8212; is to wrap the silverware in quotes!\u00a0 People unwrap their forks n&#8217; knives and read their quotes aloud, pass them around.\u00a0 People want to know, &#8220;What does yours say?&#8221;\u00a0 It has a fortune cookie effect.\u00a0 Fun, good conversation piece, and it starts the meal\/the feast with a pause.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Weight Loss Wisdom:<br \/>\nPAUSE before you eat!!!<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 Practice mindful eating!<\/p>\n<p>Here are <strong>8 Fat-Free, Calorie-Free Christmas Quotes<\/strong> for you to chew on, print and it&#8217;s a wrap!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.\u201d ~ Peg Bracken.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Remember, if Christmas isn\u2019t found in your heart, you won\u2019t find it under a tree.\u201d ~ Charlotte Carpenter<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To the American People: Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. If we think on these things, there will be born in us a Savior and over us will shine a star sending its gleam of hope to the world.\u201d<br \/>\n~ Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), American president. Presidential message (December 25, 1927).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won\u2019t make it \u2018white\u2019.\u201d ~ Bing Crosby (1904-1977), American singer and film actor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is the personal thoughtfulness, the warm human awareness, the reaching out of the self to one\u2019s fellow man that makes giving worthy of the Christmas spirit.\u201d ~ Isabel Currier.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.\u201d ~ Charles Dickens (1812-1870), English author. From \u2018A Christmas Carol\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.\u201d ~ W. T. Ellis<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Christmas, my child, is love in action.\u201d ~ Dale Evans (1912-2001), American film actress, singer and songwriter. Wife of Roy Rogers.<\/p>\n<p>For more kick tush fat-free ways to laugh it up while you slim down, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/30757154492\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kick in the Tush Club\/Facebook<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><em>Spread the word\u2013NOT the icing!<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Janice<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<br \/>\nFor the best life, wellness and weight loss wisdom, visit Janice:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourladyofweightloss.com\/\"><br \/>\nOur Lady of Weight Loss<\/a><br \/>\nsign up for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/maildogmanager.com\/surveys\/OurLadyofWeightLoss\/optin1.html\"><em>Kick in the Tush Club<\/em><\/a> e-letter<br \/>\njoin and chat: Facebook\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/30757154492\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kick in the Tush Club\/Facebook<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite things to do when having dinner parties &#8212; especially a holiday party &#8212; is to wrap the silverware in quotes!\u00a0 People unwrap their forks n&#8217; knives and read their quotes aloud, pass them around.\u00a0 People want to know, &#8220;What does yours say?&#8221;\u00a0 It has a fortune cookie effect.\u00a0 Fun, good conversation&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,70,82,3,60,1659,978,1488,1,19,176,369],"tags":[3057,3836,3058,671,3826,3827,3825,21,8,3837,248],"class_list":["post-4445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happiness","category-janice-taylor","category-kick-in-the-tush-club","category-motivation","category-our-lady-of-weight-loss","category-quotes","category-the-happiness-diet","category-the-holiday-diet","category-weight-loss","category-weight-loss-art","category-weight-loss-coach-2","category-weight-loss-tips-2","tag-christmas-quotes","tag-diet-tips","tag-holiday-wraps","tag-how-to-lose-weight","tag-janice-taylor","tag-kick-in-the-tush-club","tag-our-lady-of-weight-loss","tag-weight-loss-art-2","tag-weight-loss-coach","tag-weight-loss-motivation","tag-weight-loss-tips"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>8 Christmas Quotes: Wrap Your Holiday in Ho Ho Ho Happiness! 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