{"id":339,"date":"2010-12-26T23:27:36","date_gmt":"2010-12-26T23:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.handsfreemama.com\/?p=339"},"modified":"2010-12-26T23:44:08","modified_gmt":"2010-12-26T23:44:08","slug":"the-hands-free-revolution-holiday-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.handsfreemama.com\/2010\/12\/26\/the-hands-free-revolution-holiday-style\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hands Free Revolution: Holiday Style"},"content":{"rendered":"

Things were different this year.\u00a0 And not just at my house.<\/p>\n

-One family took a seventeen hour train ride from Florida to Virginia totally Hands Free. When I looked at the photos they shared, I could practically hear the perceptive conversations they had about every exquisite detail they observed while watching the beauty of the world go by.<\/p>\n

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Enjoying the passing sights on a Hands Free cross-county train ride with his family.<\/p><\/div>\n

-One mother blew off her entire holiday to-do List and instead asked her daughter what she wanted to do all day.\u00a0 It may have been her child\u2019s best Christmas gift.<\/p>\n

-Another mother left Hands Free evidence on the back of the Christmas card she sent.\u00a0 Oh, how I would have loved to join that Hands Free dance party!<\/p>\n

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On the back of her Christmas card, this Hands Free Mama left her mark.<\/p><\/div>\n

-One grandpa sent his granddaughters note cards, stamps, and labels with his address so they could correspond with him without any adult assistance. I could just imagine his face when he goes to the mailbox and finds notes written to him in precious child handwriting.\u00a0 Those notes will be saved and treasured far longer than any email or any text message.<\/p>\n

-One Hands Free husband wrote a full-page love letter to his wife of thirteen years telling her every single thing that he loved about her and their life together.<\/p>\n

-One mother completely shut down her computer because she did not want to miss one moment with her children while they were home from school on their holiday vacation.<\/p>\n

-One mother made an array of Easy Bake Oven delicacies, played Hangman too many times to count, lovingly painted drinking glasses for Christmas Eve beverages, pulled a wagon along the holiday-lighted streets, gave piggy back rides in a heated pool, and received more embraces than her heart could bear.<\/p>\n

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Much of my Hands Free holiday was spent in the arms of my family.<\/p><\/div>\n

There are more Hands Free stories that you have graciously shared and probably even more that you haven\u2019t.\u00a0 Whether you share them or keep them to yourself, they happened because you made a choice.\u00a0 Instead of holding on to what distracts, you chose to go Hands Free. And it is pretty amazing to see what you have grasped.<\/p>\n

And not to worry if you are just coming across this Hands Free concept for the first time, or perhaps you have been skeptical. It\u2019s not too late to go Hands Free. It is never too late to let go of distraction and grasp what really matters in life.<\/p>\n

Take my hand. A Hands Free New Year awaits; and we are just getting started.<\/p>\n

Did you make any new Hands Free holiday traditions this year? Did you experience any that were so meaningful they just might become every day traditions?\u00a0 2011 is just around the corner\u2026I would call that perfect timing.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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