8 Wonderful Ways To Celebrate Christmas

Christmas is a beautiful time of the year. It is that time of the year when everyone wants to be at their best. The season of giving and receiving. There are several ways to celebrate and enjoy this beautiful season. See ways one can enjoy Christmas below:

1. Have a friend or family reunion

Christmas is one of the best times to get every member of one's family together. What can be more wonderful than spending your holiday with your friends or family, especially the ones you hardly have time to visit  or have not seen all year round.

2. Take time to reflect

Christmas is when most homecomings and reunions take place. You can take advantage of this season to relax and look back at how you have fared all through the year.

3. Pray or go to Church

Going to church to give thanks,  going for musical concerts and praying are also ways to celebrate this season.

4. Give and show love

Just because this season preaches love and it is that time of the year when one can't get enough love, it gives greater joy when we show love and keep spreading love. 

5.Christmas carols

Carols are happy or religious songs, usually sung at Christmas. The great joy and gladness that comes with attending or partaking in carols is one that makes even the hardest of hearts melt. Christmas is almost incomplete without carols.

6. Avoid Conflict

No matter how pushed we get during this season, we must learn to avoid conflict. We must not destroy the solemnity and gladness of the season by being enveloped in conflict.

7. Remember what Christmas season is about

We must make conscious effort to remember what christmas really is. It isn't an end of the year routine celebration or a religious routine celebration. It is a celebration of love and kindness.

 8. Take a Vacation 

You and your family can go on a beautiful vacation trip to a place you have always wanted. There are usually discounted travel packages at this moment as well.

Christmas time is meant to be filled with gladness, merriment and thankfulness. To have a memorable Christmas, one must be intentional. Carve out time with family and friends to reconnect with one another. Do new fun things, visit a new place. Don’t let the month go by without recording really memorable moments.

5 Life lessons to learn from Tissy Nnachi's "Don't Leave Home"

Directed by Tissy Nnachi, Nollywood movie Don't Leave Home was released earlier this year and it stars talented Nollywood acts Bimbo Ademoye, Adaora Ukoh, Daniel Lloyd, Lilian Esoro and many more.

Not only did this movie tell  a touching story, it exposes the deep effects of external influence on an individual. In this movie, a pregnant woman naively allowed a stranger into her life. This stranger came under the guise of 'I am also pregnant' and of course she offered friendship and was able to penetrate into the latter's life.

It is true that pregnant women experience a lot of emotions in this state. The various hormones being secreted in their body places them on a emotional rollercoaster which can explain why they may act gullible. This however isn't enough reason to let their guards down and become easily brainwashed.

So what are the lessons to be learnt from this movie:

Lesson 1

- Never let your emotions control you

Run things, do not let things run you

Lesson 2

-Old Friends are Diamonds

Ever heard of that song, Old friends are diamonds, new friends are gold? Which would you to chose to keep if you had to pick?

Lesson 3

- Do not reveal all about you all the time

Is it possible to always keep really personal information within you? What is it with women and the need to spill out everything happening in their lives to friends? Sometimes some information are better hidden or kept within.

Lesson 4

-Listen to your life partner

Some women may not agree with me on this but the institution marriage, kind of comes with some rules and regulations. A lot of people will avoid unnecessary headaches and problems if they can listen to advise from their life partner.

Lesson 5

-Never leave your home

This is for married people. Except you are in an abusive relationship and your life is threatened, do not leave your home. No matter the challenge, no matter how bad the situation is, do not leave your home until you have been able to prove beyond every reasonable doubt that it is the best option.

Finally, Karma is real and it is a known fact that everyone will reap whatever they sow, even if it takes time.

More pictures from the movie:

A life changing experience

A couple of months ago, I passed through one of the most unforgettable experience of my life.

As humans, we are bound to go through different experiences daily and in our entire life. Our life is a sum total of various situations we have passed through, circumstances we have found ourselves in and what we have learnt from these things.

  However there are experiences that cannot be forgotten and that are of course unique to us.

By now I'm sure you want to know what this is, anyway, it is something usual, I gave birth. Bringing another human to life isn't such a big deal for some people at least that was what I thought until I had to go through it. My honest conclusion is, experience is the best teacher.

It is true that when you do certain things, your life changes forever. Becoming a parent is one of those things. Becoming a parent can be a wonderful experience but at times, it can be daunting and overwhelming as you begin to make decisions about a lot of things that may be quite new to you. Some new parents suffer from postnatal depression unaware, especially if they have little or no helper around. It is therefore expedient that one avoids venturing into the business of having children when one is not ready.

 For those already on this journey, good luck and God's grace to us all. For those looking forward to start the journey, grace and courage to have a wonderful experience from the start.

Do you think you sometimes overreact?

It recently crossed my mind to talk about over reacting to issues and situations. A couple of months back, I probably wouldn't have thought about this. However, in recent times it has become quite obvious that a lot of times as individuals we let our strong emotions take over, we over-think situations, we analyze wrongly and then we overreact to them. Often times it may not necessarily be our fault, this is because we live in a world full of different kinds of people.

Daily in our activities and even at our work places we come across different people with different temperaments. We agree with some people and we find ourselves disagreeing with some. We may also find ourselves having to face serious antagonistic situations, such that there is a need for us to desperately react. What do we do in such situations?
Yield to our already over charged feelings and emotions at those times or relax and have a rethink before we react?

I'm 99% certain that everyone has over reacted at some points in their lifetime. Whether we agree or not, whether we knew we did or not , we have at some points over reacted.

After reading this article today, we must decide in our hearts that as much as we are not perfect, we will try to calm down in confrontational situations or when our anger is at its peak. Everyone can save themselves the stress of regretting what they didn't mean but said earlier out of annoyance.

Publishing my first book

Despite the fact that I am a writer and I have manuscripts, I have been unable to publish any for years until now.  All I had been doing for years was writing articles, blogging, speaking at events and creating contents for different magazines, writers and bloggers. I just couldn't publish a book.




At first it was the fact that I kept desperately searching for a known and established publishing house to help publish that was delaying me. The few publishing houses I had approached because I believed I stood a better chance with them, had been quick to say No to me. Later there was one that eventually agreed to publish my book, back then I had been overjoyed and I even started telling family and close friends that I was going to get published by a "big publishing house".  Little did I know, that one of the workers who was majorly in charge of new authors and manuscripts  had somethingelse in mind. My dad who had experience with men in publishing had warned me earlier to be careful but I thought he was just being protective.

At the end of the day one of the men I had encountered wanted to go out with me " to speak concerning my book". Of course that was the end of that chapter, and many more like that which occured. The ones that had the decency not to ask me out, wanted me to wait. There was a particular publisher who kept saying " paper is expensive, paper is this and that but your manuscript is good if only you can wait for a while...". Of course I waited for over a year to no avail. It took tact and wisdom to get him to release the manuscript after wasting so much time.

I then started to try getting published by foreign publishing houses, I tried so many that I cannot even remember all right now,  but there was one particular one that kept contacting and calling me, Dorothy Publishing house. In the end, it turned out they wanted me to partly finance and share the expenses of the publishing. Imagine that, I didn't have enough money to publish in Nigeria now they were asking me for dollars ???

To cut the long story short, after several thoughts, self condemnation, self denial and self motivation, I decided to publish on my own late last year. Of course I had few people who encouraged me to do so too. And although today, I have started with the smallest of my manuscripts, I'm grateful that I have started.

Even if this looks small to some people, to me, it is like I have taken a big leap and I'm excited that I'm sharing this with this community. I'm officially an author!





Thank you for always reading my blog and have a great new year!