FCS December 2022 Newsletter
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IMPORTANT DATES
December 9-15
Facebook Holiday Auction
December 15
Facebook Cooking Video
December 21
First Official Day of Winter
December 26-30
Office Closed for Holidays
January 2
Office closed
January 10
Homemakers Sewing Day
January 17
Homemaker Lesson Training – Owensboro
January 17
Homemaker Council
January 18
Homemaker Lesson Training – Henderson
January 25
Ag Expo
DAVIESS COUNTY EXTENSION HOMEMAKERS FACEBOOK AUCTION EVENT
Bidding will begin at 9:00 a.m. Friday, December 9, and conclude at 4:00 p.m. Thursday, December 15.
For more details, please see page 4 of this newsletter.
The Daviess County Extension Office will be closed December 26-30 and January 2 in observance of the holidays so our staff can spend time with family and friends. We hope you have a Happy Holiday Season and a Happy New Year!
CALENDAR COOKING DEMOS
The Green River Area FCS agents are doing food demonstrations via Facebook with the Calendar recipes!
December’s recipe for Cheese and Corn Chowder will be posted at 11:00 am on December 15, on the county Facebook page.
2023 SNAP CALENDARS
Food + Nutrition Calendars are available at the Daviess County Extension Office! Be sure to stop by and grab one! The calendars are FREE!
SELF-CARE
Source: Paul Norrod, DrPH RN, Extension specialist for rural health and safety
The holiday season is often thought of as a time of celebration and rest, but for many people the holidays cause a lot of stress. The stress can come from worrying about money, travel, work, child care, or dealing with the absence of someone you love. The results of holiday stress can negatively affect relationships at work and in our family. To deal with the stress of the holiday season, we should find ways to better care for ourselves by engaging in self-care.
Self-care is a broad term involving attitudes, knowledge, and activities to improve or maintain our well-being. Self-care generally applies to reducing stress, but it is important to supporting our physical well-being as well as our relationships. On the other hand, well-being involves living out our mental and physical health to achieve our dreams, passions, goals, and keep or form new relationships. Focusing on self-care involves use of coping skills, which are a set of activities or skills to reduce our stress. Coping skills and activities can vary, but often include drawing, painting, sowing, hunting or fishing, taking walks, or using boxed breathing.
When thinking about stress and self-care, we should consider events or situations that create stress and those coping activities that reduce our stress. A simple way to evaluate your stress is to make a list and rank those things that cause stress from least to greatest. That way, you can find your most problematic stressors. Once you’ve made that lists, do the same for your coping skills. Rank them from least to greatest in terms of what gives you the most relief from stress. Lastly, if your feelings of stress are not improving or are worsening, text or call 988 to speak with a crisis counselor and receive support.
Reference: National Institute of Mental Health (2021). "Caring for Your Mental Health." 2022, from https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/caring-for-your-mental-health.
HOMEMAKER HAPPENINGS
Lesson for the Month: Clubs plan their own holiday celebrations
Roll Call: December is the holiday season. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
Thought of the Month: “Remember this December that love weighs more than gold!.”
—Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon
FOYER DECORATIONS
Thanks to Maceo for helping us celebrate November. Happy Hour, you are up for December!
LESSON LEADER TRAINING
The February and March Homemaker Lesson leader training will be Tuesday, January 17 at the Daviess County Extension Office and Wednesday, January 18 at the Henderson County Extension Office.
February Lesson at 10:00am: Transferring Cherished Possessions: Estate Planning for Non-Titled Property
March Lesson at 11:00am: Elements and Principles of Art
The Daviess County Extension Homemaker Council will meet following the lesson trainings at 12:15pm on January 17.
SEWING DAY
The Daviess County Extension Homemakers will have a sewing day on January 10th from 9:00am – 1:00pm in the meeting room at the Extension Office.
INTERNATIONAL DAY: February 9 at 5:30 p.m.
Join Sharayha Clingenpeel, our 4-H agent, and learn how to make homemade eggrolls.
HOLIDAY AUCTION
Check out the Daviess County Extension Homemakers Facebook Auction event! The event will be created on the Daviess County Extension Facebook page and shared on the Daviess County Extension Homemakers page. Click on the event to check out the items and bid in the comment section.
Be sure your comments are changed to ALL COMMENTS so you can see all the bids.
Bidding will begin at 9:00am on Friday, December 9th and conclude at 4:00pm on Thursday, December 15th!
Items need to be picked up from the Daviess County Extension Office on Friday, December 16th and paid for with cash or check.
SAVE THE DATE
KEHA State Meeting
“Let’s Take a Hike with KEHA”
May 9-11, 2023
Crowne Plaza
Louisville, KY
For more details, please visit: https://keha.ca.uky.edu/content/state-meeting-information
CLICK HERE to read the December Moneywise
Topic: TIPS TO INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY AND STOP PROCRASTINATING
CLICK HERE to read the December Adult Health Bulletin
CLICK HERE to read the December Parent Health Bulletin
CLICK HERE for the December recipe: CHEESE AND CORN CHOWDER
