Aire Serv of the Mid-Hudson Valley - Novmeber 2019

Engage Your Kids on Thanksgiving

With These Gratitude-Themed Games

Thanksgiving is an excellent time to teach children about gratefulness. By planning some fun, gratitude-themed games, you can impart a valuable lesson and spend some quality family time together. Get your kids in the holiday spirit by adding a Thanksgiving twist to these classic games. PICTIONARY Want to bring out your kids’ creative sides? Pictionary is the perfect way to encourage artistic expression and grateful thinking. Try adding a rule where players have to draw something they’re grateful for. This will get your kids thinking beyond turkey and stuffing and give them an imaginative way to express their gratitude. Plus, who doesn’t love a good art contest? GUESS WHO? To play gratitude-themed Guess Who?, have each participant write down their name and something they’re thankful for on a slip of paper and put it in a bowl. Then, at the dinner table, have each person draw a random slip and read what it says without saying the name while everyone else tries to guess who wrote it. While Pictionary may get your kids talking about what they are thankful for, Guess Who? will tune them into what others around them are thankful for too.

using colored sticks that represent different kinds of thankfulness — such as places, people, or food — you can make players think outside the box. This will ensure you get a wide range of creative, thoughtful answers whenever the kids pick up a stick. These modified games are great for helping your kids realize how much they have to be thankful for. Use these to spend some fun, educational, quality time with your family this Thanksgiving.

PICK-UP STICKS Like regular pick-up sticks, the goal is to remove a stick from a haphazard pile without disturbing the others. However, by

READING THE SIGNS

REPLACING YOUR HVAC UNIT BEFORE IT BREAKS THE BANK

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Today’s units are designed with energy efficiency in mind. Pumping less energy into your home spells savings when it comes time to pay the energy bill. In addition, new HVAC units come with the convenient cellphone app controls, increased safety features, and less time spent relying on the technician to fix the frequent problems that were plaguing your old system. Don’t spend another winter battling your furnace. While everyone on our team enjoys getting to know you and we are always ready to assist when you call on us, we also love helping you save money and want to make sure you have the safest, most efficient, most reliable system you can have for your home.

air conditioning unit’s refrigerant is leaking or your furnace's heat exchanger develops a crack and becomes unsafe, it may be wiser to replace your whole unit rather than to replace just these costly parts. It’s likely that your HVAC system will reach a point where repairs are frequent and costly. In these

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