The divorce is final and now we have the challenge of the first year.
The first year after your divorce and every year thereafter is going to contain holidays. As with all of our challenges in life, it is never the challenge, it is always our perception of the challenge.
Years ago when I was running a group in the local jail, and the end of the year holidays were approaching, everyone in the group announced they were going to make my life miserable because they all hated the holidays. Well, never one to back away from a challenge, I enjoyed having them eat those words. I hired a videographer (remember it was years ago), and he helped each group member make a holiday tape to send to their families. We had a group holiday sing - also taped which was added to their individual tapes. The community donated everything we needed and the group members thanked me profusely remembering it as one of their best holidays (and they were in jail.) The key was not money but rather creativity.
Let's pull out our creative genes and avoid some common pitfalls while we create holidays to remember.
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