We are officially on that high-speed ride that starts right after Halloween and is aimed directly at the New Year. For the next two months many of us will combine our regular daily routine (which is sometimes frantic) with even more frantic activities like shopping, decorating, visiting relatives and consuming lots of food at various gatherings. It's a fun time of year although it can be exhausting.
And because we get so busy, we may neglect the people who depend on us every day: our immediate family. But I have a co-worker who has found one little way to offset the busy-ness of the holidays by combining charity and giving with her family members.
She volunteers at a soup kitchen of sorts and the whole family participates. Her husband helps set up tables and chairs for dinner and the kids help with serving and cleaning up. This solution lets the family work together, and it provides a great opportunity for her kids to help others in need.
Are you interested in volunteering? If so you can check with your local charities, schools, places of worship, hospitals and shelters. You can also give blood (see http://www.redcrossblood.org/), help build a house (http://www.habitat.org/) or improve your vocabulary and donate rice at the same time (http://www.freerice.com/).
The benefits of giving to self-esteem and confidence are well documented and if your family can be involved together, then your family benefits in a big way.
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