Holiday Party Planning

'Tis season to have a party and invite all your family and friends to celebrate holidays with you. Have a family day and decorate entire house with holiday party decorations. Your family will enjoy how festive home is before and after holiday party.

When decorating, make sure you have all party supplies that you will need before actual party day.  Plan out food and drinks you will be serving.  Make a list of everything you need to purchase to help get you ready. If you are preparing any new dishes or appetizers, try them out in advance on your family and neighbors. You want to have all quirks of any new recipes worked out before your party. It is a nice idea to give each of your guests holiday party favors as a token of your appreciation for them attending your party. Choosing perfect favors for your party can be a way to cleverly tie in holiday theme with your own individual touch. 

Have you ever put water into a teapot to make tea before? Do you stop and think about what happens when you do? Like most of us, I'm sure you don't even give it a second thought, but let's examine it a bit.

First, you pour cold water into teapot, cover it, turn on stove, and leave. What happens next is interesting. As water beings to heat, molecules in it begin to move faster and faster until water begins to boil.

Next, steam gradually builds and builds until it finds a weak spot in teapot (the whistle) to escape. Once opening is found, pressure bursts from it, creating that noise that alerts you that it's time for tea.

What's fascinating about this to me is that this teapot can teach us a lesson or two about how pressure/frustration/stress builds and accumulates in our own lives.

What's even more deadly about this is that we often don't know how to release these pent-up emotions in ways that don't harm us, or those we care about.

So, let's examine this a bit more.

First, there are often disturbing things that we deal with that instead of letting go, we dump into our teapot (the back-parts of our minds/heart). For example: working with someone who goes out of their way to either get you in trouble or sabotage you efforts. All day long, things that affect us negatively usually gets dumped into our sub-conscious teapot instead of being dealt with consciously and released.

Next, everything is usually fine until we're caught in some situation that lights a fire under us. Sometimes being under stressful conditions that act as a continuous heat source, often causes our hidden feelings/emotions to begin surfacing like water that boils in teapot.