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Life at Victorian Village A Message from Tammy Tjoelker
Happy New Year! As we ring in this New Year, may we embrace the love and joy that we have been given through the blessed Christmas season and give of ourselves to lighten the paths of those around us. On our campus this new year, we are
resolutions, share memories of the past year, and our hearts linger in the joy from the year’s events. We begin a fresh start in 2026. May we truly enjoy with one another the lovely blessings that await us in this New Year!
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welcoming new friends, sharing new memories, and encouraging each other during activities together. The outside weather is cold this time of year, but our community inside experiences the warming of our hearts with friendships and social engagements here at Victorian Village. Meeting up with a friend for coffee, a meal, an activity, a time of fitness, or a prayer fellowship is a delight that strengthens us from day to day. We have new opportunities to get together in the fresh start of the new year, offering warmth to one another. In January, we enjoy the warmth of participating in our Hot Chocolate socials, Tea Parties, games, fitness, music, Bible studies, entertainment, reminiscing, relaxation, and happy hours. We look forward to a year where our warmth will go beyond ourselves to engage in beautiful fellowship and connections with the people around us. We make New Year’s
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January Life Enrichment Activities
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Hot Chocolate Social • 1:00 p.m. — Grand Activity Room • 1:45 p.m. — Inn Living Room • 2:00 p.m. — Memory Support
• 10:30 a.m. — Faith House • 1:30 p.m. — Hope House
Lutheran Service with Pastor Rick 1:00 p.m. — Grand Activity Room
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Happy Hour 3:00 p.m. — The Inn Living Room
12 th Homer Glen Rolling Library 10:30 a.m. — Inn Living Room
Shopping: Walgreens Senior Discount and Aldi 9:30 a.m. Bus Departure Sign up in the What’s Happening Book
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12 th Happy Hour
3:00 p.m. — Grand Fireside Lobby
13 th Shopping: Jewel Osco and Dollar Tree 9:30 a.m. Bus Departure
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Happy Hour 3:00 p.m. — Grand Fireside Lounge
Sign up in the What’s Happening Book
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Crazy Bunco 1:00 p.m. — Grand Activity Center
13 th Lunch Outing: Olive Garden 11:30 a.m. Bus Departure
Sign up in the What’s Happening Book
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14 th Card-Making Craft
26 th Homer Glen Rolling Library 10:30 a.m. — Inn Living Room
1:30 p.m. — Grand Activity Center Join volunteers Linda & Ellen for a card-making craft. Everything is provided—just bring yourself.
27 th Shopping: Walmart 9:30 a.m. Bus Departure
Sign up in the What’s Happening Book
16 th Monthly Birthday Party 1:45 p.m. — Inn Living Room
27 th General Store Bingo Coupon Redemption 3:00 p.m. — Grand Activity Room
3:00 p.m. — Grand Fireside Lobby
20 th Shopping: Meijer and Aldi 9:30 a.m. Bus Departure
28 th Tea Party
Sign up in the What’s Happening Book
• 1:00 p.m. — Grand Activity Room • 1:45 p.m. — Inn Living Room • 2:00 p.m. — Memory Support
20 th Bingo with Lemont Junior High Social Time
• 10:30 a.m. — Faith House • 1:30 p.m. — Hope House
3:00 p.m. — Grand Activity Room and Inn Living Room
29 th Entertainment with Bob Kalal
21 st Bingo with Bethshan Residents 6:00 p.m. — Grand Activity Room
“Around the Year in 60 Minutes.” 2:00 p.m. — Victorian Inn 1st floor Lobby
Bill Schepel will bring residents from the group CILA homes to visit and play bingo with our Victorian Village residents.
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News from the Courts Courts Happy Hour (Held the 3 rd Tuesday of each month) Tuesday, January 20 th 4:30 p.m. Courts Community Center
Victorian Village Book Club Light from Heaven by Jan Karon Friday, January 23 1:00 p.m. — Grand Private Dining Room Father Tim Kavanagh has been asked to “come up higher” more than once. But he’s never been asked to do the impossible— until now. The retired Episcopal priest takes on the revival of a mountain church that’s been closed for forty years. Meanwhile, in Mitford, he’s sent on a hunt for hidden treasure, and two beloved friends are called to
Courts Potluck Thursday, January 29 th 11:45 a.m. Courts Community Center
come up higher as well. As Father Tim finds, there are still plenty of heartfelt surprises, dear friends old and new, and the most important lesson of all: It’s never too late.
Marquette Bank Full-Service Banking Thursdays at 10:00 a.m. Private Dining Room at the Grand We offer on-site banking with Marquette Bank to provide services to our residents. Banking services are set up in our private dining room at the Grand and is available every Thursday:
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• January 8 th • January 15 th
• January 22 nd • January 29 th
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Chaplain’s Corner: Living With Eternity in Mind
done. To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, He will give eternal life. But for those who are self- seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger" (Romans 2:6-8). We must never forget that every one of us, while we live, is in a state of probation. We are constantly sowing seeds that will spring up and bear fruit, every day and every hour in our lives. There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words, and actions, of which we pay too little attention. "Everyone will have to give account on the Day of Judgment for every empty word they have spoken" (Matthew 12:36). Our thoughts are all numbered; our actions are weighed. No wonder that Paul says, " Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life" (Galatians 6:8). In a word, what we sow in life we will reap after death and reap throughout all eternity.
Our future state in the unseen world of eternity depends entirely on what we are in the present. The life that we live on the earth is short and soon gone. "We finish our years with a moan" (Psalm 90:9). "What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes" (James 4:14). The life that is before us when we leave this world is an endless eternity, a sea without a bottom, and an ocean without a shore. "With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day" (2 Peter 3:8). In that world, there will be no more time. But short as our life is here, and endless as it will be in eternity, the life we now live will have a tremendous impact on eternity. Our lot after death depends, humanly speaking, on what we are while we are alive. It is written, God "will repay each person according to what they have
"Life is the time to serve the Lord, The time to insure the great reward."
from Isaac Watts, “Life Is the Time to Serve the Lord.” The Bible clearly teaches that what we are when we die, whether converted or unconverted, whether believers or unbelievers, whether godly or ungodly, so we will be when we rise again at the sound of the last trumpet. There is no
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in the face of the temptation the thought of eternity. There is a great saying by the martyred Reformer, Bishop Hooper, when someone urged him to recant before he was burned, saying, "Life is sweet, and death is bitter." "True," said the good Bishop, "quite true! But eternal life is sweeter, and eternal death is more bitter." The Lord Jesus Christ is the great Friend to whom we must all look for help, both for now and eternity. The reason why the eternal Son of God came into the world can never be declared too fully or proclaimed too loudly. He came to give us hope and peace while we live among the "temporary things which are seen," and glory and blessedness when we go to the "eternal things, which are unseen." He came to bring "life and immortality to light" (2 Timothy 1:10) and to "free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death" (Hebrews 2:15). He saw our lost and bankrupt condition and had compassion on us. And now, blessed be His name, a mortal man may pass through "temporary things" with comfort, and look forward to "eternal things" without fear. Our Lord Jesus Christ has purchased these mighty privileges for us at the cost of His own precious blood. He became our Substitute and bore our sins in His own body on the cross and then rose again for our justification. "For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God" (1 Peter 3:18). "God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us" (2 Corinthians 5:21) that we poor, sinful creatures might have pardon and justification while we
repentance in the grave: there is no conversion after the last breath is drawn. Now is the time to believe in Christ and to lay hold of eternal life. Now is the time to turn from darkness to light, and to make our calling and election sure. The night comes when no man can work. As the tree falls, there it will lie. If we leave this world refusing to repent and believe, we will rise in the same condition on resurrection morning and find it would have been "better for us if we had never been born." I strongly advise readers to remember this and to make good use of their time. Regard it as the stuff of which life is made and never waste it or throw it away. Your hours and days and weeks and months and years all have something to say to your eternal condition beyond the grave. What you sow in this life on earth, you are sure to reap in a life to come. Remember this in your use of all the means of grace, from the least to the greatest. Never be careless about them. They are given to be your help toward an eternal world, and not one of them ought to be thoughtlessly treated or lightly and irreverently handled. Your daily prayers and Bible-reading, your weekly behavior on the Lord’s Day, your manner of going through public worship—every one of these things is important. Use them all as one who remembers eternity. Keep it foremost in your mind whenever you are tempted to do evil. When sinners entice you, and say, "It is only a little sin." When Satan whispers in your heart, "Never mind: what is the great harm in it? Everybody does it,"—then look beyond time to a world unseen, and place
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live, and glory and blessedness when we die. And all that our Lord Jesus Christ has purchased for us, He offers freely to everyone who will turn from his sins, come to Him, and believe. "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in darkness but will have light of life" (John 8:12). "Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest" (Matthew 11:28). "Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink" (John 7:37). "Whoever comes to me I will never drive away" (John 6:37) And the terms are as simple as the offer is free: "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved" (Acts 16:31). "Whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life" (John 3:16). He that has Christ, has life. He can look around at the "temporary things," and see change and decay everywhere, and yet have no fear. He has got treasure in heaven, "where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal." He can look forward to the "eternal things," and feel calm and composed. His Savior has risen and gone to prepare a place for him. When he leaves this world, he will have a crown of glory and be forever with his Lord. He can look down even into the grave, as the wisest Greeks and Romans could never do, and say, "Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?" (1 Corinthians 15:55). Let us all settle it firmly in our minds that the only way to pass through "what is seen" with comfort, and look forward to "what is unseen" without fear, is to have Christ for our Savior and Friend, to lay hold of Christ by faith, to become one with Christ and Christ in us, and while we
live in the flesh to live the life of faith in the Son of God. (Galatians 2:20) How vast is the difference between the state of him who has faith in Christ and the state of him who has none! Blessed indeed is that man or woman who can say, with truth, "I trust in Jesus: I believe. When John Knox, the Scottish Reformer, was drawing to his end and unable to speak, a faithful servant asked him to give some proof that the Gospel he had preached in life gave him comfort in death by raising his hand. He heard and raised his hand toward heaven three times and then departed. I say again, blessed is he that believes! He alone is rich, independent, and beyond the reach of harm. If you and I have no comfort among temporary things, and no hope for the eternal things, then it is completely our own fault. It is because we "refuse to come to me (Christ) to have life" (John 5:40). Cling to Christ and live the life of faith in Him. Remain in Him and live close to Him. Follow Him with heart and soul and mind and strength and seek to know Him better every day. By doing so, you will have great peace while you pass through the "temporary things," and in the midst of a dying world you "will never die" (John 11:26). By doing so you will be able to look forward to "eternal things" with unfailing confidence, and to feel and "know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands" (2 Corinthians 5:1).
Commentary by J.C. Ryle
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Senior Fitness with Symbria Making a Better Night’s Sleep Your New Year’s Resolution
y Increases cognitive abilities. A lack of sleep is directly linked to issues with recalling both short-term and long-term memories. y Reduces risk of falls. Sleep helps improve reaction times, decreasing the risks of a potentially dangerous fall. HOW TO SLEEP WELL? For some seniors, good sleep doesn’t come easily. Sleep issues are just a natural part of aging as the production of an essential hormone, melatonin, decreases. It’s not uncommon to hear seniors complain of getting tired earlier in the evening, waking up earlier in the morning, or even suffering from insomnia… having trouble falling and staying asleep! In addition, restless leg syndrome and periodic limbic movement disorder, as well as health conditions like diabetes, cognitive heart failure, kidney disease, or prostate issues in men, can also impact sleep. Common medications such as antidepressants and beta-blockers can also affect your restful night. If this sounds like you, be sure to speak with your doctor. Take charge of your sleep by diligently following these simple routines: y Follow a daily bedtime routine in which you go to bed and wake up at the same time each day — even on weekends.
Taking care of ourselves can be the best New Year’s resolution we can make! According to the National Sleep Foundation, seniors over age 65 should get at least 7-8 hours of sleep each night to reap the benefits of a good night’s sleep. HERE ARE JUST A FEW REASONS: y Boosts your mood. Poor quality of sleep is often directly linked to increased feelings of anger, agitation, stress, and depression. y Helps you stay active. Quality sleep gives you energy to stay active, exercise, and complete daily tasks. y Improves concentration. Sleep makes it easier to focus.
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y Limit naps during the day and never nap for longer than 20 minutes. y Avoid watching TV and any digital light or snacking in bed. Use your bed for sleeping only. y Limit alcohol consumption late in the evening. While a late-night drink may help you fall asleep, the quality of sleep will be limited as the sedating effects of the alcohol wear off. y Get regular exercise and be sure to stay active during the day. y Reduce stress and relax before bedtime. Use relaxation methods to ease your body into sleep mode. SLEEP IS SELF-CARE A good night’s sleep is more than rest — it’s an act of self-care that supports your overall well-being. When sleep becomes a priority, days often feel calmer, brighter, and more manageable. As we age, our bodies change, and sleep patterns can shift. That’s normal. What matters most is listening to your body, being gentle with yourself, and making small adjustments that support comfort and consistency. If sleep has been challenging, you’re not alone — and you don’t have to figure it out by yourself. Conversations with your healthcare provider, combined with simple daily habits, can make a meaningful difference.
Live & Learn Rejuvenating Rest: The Power of Sleep Thursday, January 15th 10:00 a.m. in the Grand Activity Center While sleep is foundational to good health, it is complex and often elusive as we age. By looking at circadian rhythms, daily habits, and nutrition, understand the power of sleep for overall well-being. Join Stacy for a presentation to learn simple lifestyle tips This year, give yourself permission to slow down, rest well, and embrace sleep as an essential part of living fully — one peaceful night at a time. Sleep also plays a role in how we experience each day emotionally and physically. By honoring your need for rest, you’re supporting not only your health, but also your ability to stay engaged, connected, and present in the life you enjoy.
to promote restorative rest. GROUP FITNESS CLASSES: y Monday: Stretch & Flex y Tuesday: Bone Builders y Wednesday: Balance Boosters y Thursday: Fitness Fusion y Friday: Power Moves
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The holiday season brought our community together through music, creativity, and joyful celebration. From the lively sounds of the St. Michael’s Junior High Band and a spirited Dance Images performance, to hands-on moments decorating Christmas trees and crafting ornaments, each activity added to the festive spirit. Residents also enjoyed a Merry Mixer evening on campus featuring a dazzling light show, along with hot chocolate and sugar cookies from Fleckenstein’s Bakery, and cheerful Christmas parties filled with laughter and connection. We invite you to enjoy these photos and relive the special moments that made this season so memorable. Sharing Life & Making Memories
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Victorian Village Announcements ,
In Memoriam Lord, shine down Your light on John, Patricia, and Lois and embrace them in Your loving arms. John Adams October 23, 1939 - December 7, 2025 Patricia Chimino October 9, 1947 - November 19, 2025 Lois Gatlin June 29, 1928-November 25, 2025 WeCare Connect Survey Please watch for your WeCare Connect customer satisfaction survey via email, text, or phone. We are grateful that you chose Victorian Village and we wish to ensure your satisfaction, so we need to hear from you.
Happy
Birthday
The Victorian Village family extends heartfelt January birthday greetings to all of our residents who are celebrating this month!
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