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Whew, has another year really gone by? Amazing! I hope that you and your family have had a relaxing Christmas break together and your getting ready to safely bring in the New Year. I had a wonderful time with my wife and kids. To me Christmas is more about the kids and seeing them enjoy the holiday season and as a family to take a break together from our ever busy schedule.
My father, bless his soul, always measured his success at Christmas time -- seeing where he stood financially. Of course he was one of the great generation that went through so much -- the depression, WW II, Cold War, and on and on. However, to me there are other things to measure too.
On a personal level, I had a very special gift that I would like to share with you in today’s eNewsletter.
Enjoy the eNewsletter,
Doug Halladay
President and Founder
Halladay Education Group Inc.
www.HalladayEducationGroup.com
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In This Issue
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1. In The News
2. Help Your Board Improve in 2008
3. My Special Gift This Christmas
4. Products To Invest In
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1. In The News
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School of Rock will soon be in session in Seattle
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2. Help Your Board Improve in 2008
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3. My Special Gift This Christmas
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If you are like most North American families, you are inundated by commercialism at Christmas time. It is pervasive. I even noted an IPOD commercial that was pushing their +$100 IPOD as the perfect stocking stuff. Yikes!!!
It is hard to find the right balance between commercialism and family values -- finding the right gift to share with someone you love and the time to celebrate life.
However, I received the most wonderful gift this Christmas.
In the middle of December a childhood friend of my mother’s passed away. I too had known her all my life and I made sure that I attended her celebration at the facility in which she had spent the last years of her life. You see she had Alzheimer’s.
It was nice to reminisce with her children who I had grown up with and leaf through her albums of black and white family photos (there were even one of me with my 1960s buzz cut and narrow pants).
I thought while I was at her specialized Alzheimer’s facility I would pop up stairs and visit my Uncle. He has had this insidious disease for over a decade, and aside from a moment of lucidness 4 years ago, he neither recognizes anyone, walks, nor speaks. He is locked away in his world.
Well, truth be told, I had not visited him in this facility and felt compelled to visit him with my aunt and sister. He looked in good health but neither spoke a word or seemed to recognize anyone.
This is where my special gift arrived about 4 days later.
His daughter called me in an emotional phone call to share with me that my uncle (her father) had begun to talk to his nurse at his facility about a little boy and to check with Doug Halladay and his father to make sure the boy was safe. Well, somehow my visit may have triggered something and he began talking and remembering things. To say the least, this was a moment of celebration for his children at Christmas. Will it last, maybe not, but to me this event opened my heart and showed what little gifts can bring to people at this time of the year.
I hope you too had a special gift this Christmas, and wishing you and your family the very best in 2008. I know it will be a wonderful year.
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WHY GOD MADE MOMS - Answers given by 2nd grade school children to the following questions
1. She is the only one who knows where the scotch tape is.
What kind of little girl was your mom?
1. My Mom has always been my mom and none of that other stuff.
2. I don't know because I wasn't there, but my guess would be pretty bossy.
3. They say she used to be nice.
What did mom need to know about dad before she married him?
1. His last name.
2. She had to know his background. Like is he a crook? Does he get drunk on beer?
3. Does he make at least $800 a year? Did he say NO to drugs and YES to chores?
What would it take to make your mom perfect?
1. In the inside she's already perfect. Outside, I think some kind of plastic surgery.
2. Diet. You know, her hair. I'd diet, maybe blue.
If you could change one thing about your mom, what would it be?
1. She has this weird thing about me keeping my room clean. I'd get rid of that.
2. I'd make my mom smarter. Then she would know it was my sister who did it and not me.
3. I would like for her to get rid of those invisible eyes on the back of her head.
Smile and enjoy the day.
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All the best for 2008,
Douglas Halladay
Halladay Education Group Inc.
www.HalladayEducationGroup.com
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