The holidays can be a wonderful time or togetherness and celebration and it can also be a time of stress and anxiety. Don’t let the rush and excitement of the season allow you to overspend or be careless with your money and purchases. Here are a few last minute shopping tips to help you keep your sanity.

Stocking Stuffers

Don’t forget stocking stuffers – when creating your holiday budget, stocking stuffers are usually not in the budget. To avoid blowing your bank account at the last minute, look at the dollar store for trinkets. Another great place to look are the dollar shelves at your local retailer.

Lately, our girl has begun making very spur-of-the moment decisions about what she is and isn’t going to with respect to things like going out to dinner or going to the store with us.  As my wife and I are getting ready to leave, she will just say, “Daddy, I’m not going.  I’m going to stay here by myself.”

The simulation is fascinating in that the reporters talk about a planet that “revolves around two stars,” which seems clearly impossible without defying all law of physics. In fact, one of the suns is simply orbiting around the larger sun, with a planet on a an outer orbit ring. Still, it would be pretty amazing to see the light of two suns ever changing in their tandem sunrises and sunsets.
The planetary system is only 200 light years away, so not in a galaxy far, far away, like that of Tatouine, the birth planet of Luke Skywalker, which is where my son got this wacky notion in the first place.

It is commonly understood that the process will be much more difficult than necessary if we try to force training on children before they’re ready or go about it in a way that puts too much pressure on them.