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Christmas Soups to Warm Santa’s Heart

Part Two Making Due for Christmas

 

 

Christmas will be here soon and Santa only has $49 to her name and $16 on a food stamp card, that her son receives every month . So Santa still has to put together special meals for Christmas Eve and Christmas day. The trip to the local food bank did not include anything for a holiday dinner, just an assortment of donated canned foods and package foods with a lovely Christmas card. This was the first time Santa has ever been to a food bank and found it embarrassing because she asked if they had a Christmas meal for her family. No they didn’t because they had more families then resources.

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Making Do at Christmas

This Christmas is probably the hardest we have had it in this country since the great depression for a portion of our society. For some, the unemployment that was stopped at the end of November was a major hardship. How do you have Christmas with out money? This is a worry for many who have never had to do it with out spending lots. You make the Merry part of Christmas the most important part. Here are some tips and recipes.

If you have young children, go to the public library and check out some books to read to the kids every night. I am reading Little Women this year. It takes about 45 min. to read each chapter out loud. I think classic books from the 19th century was written to read out loud a chapter at a time. [Read more]

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Election Cake and Campaign Quilts: Whig Rose, Whig Defeat, Democrat Rose, Rose of Sharon and Baltimore Album Quilts

Before women were able to vote, they supported their political ideals with their home arts. One of these arts was quilting and they have left us with a history of political quilt patterns that are still made and enjoyed today. To understand how these quilts played a roll in our elections in the first half of the 19th century, we will have to look at how they lived.
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Obama Will Get Financial Products Consumer Protection Agency Underway With Elisabeth Warren

Jake Tapper of ABC News reports that Obama will appoint Elisabeth Warren as Assistant to the President & Special Adviser to the Secretary of the Treasury on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. This is going to bypass the a Senate confirmation process which could drag on for months. Warren has been the moving force and advocate for a consumer financial products protection agency. She has been working closely with the president as Chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel of the Troubled Assets Relief Program. She will answer directly to President Obama and to Treasury Secretary Geithner.

Yippy!!!  (This Democrat is doing a happy dance) [Read more]

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