A few tips on how make fitness goals for the New Year that won’t get tossed aside come February 1st, or earlier: 1. Make a reasonable commitment. How much time are you going to devote to working out? Write it down in minutes. How many days a week are you going to do this? If […]
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Creative Ways to Help Your Kids Express Gratitude Sometimes kids need a little help to express gratitude for the important people in their lives. Here are some creative ways to help kids express their gratitude. Make a Homemade Card While cards from the local store can often be cute and funny, most people
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Did you know that 33 percent of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives? Or that 42 percent of college graduates never read another book after college? Sadly, there’s more: 57 percent of new books are not read to completion and 70 percent of adults in the United States
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At times we fail to consider what these talents, gifts, or skills may be. We may dwell upon what we believe are our inadequacies. We periodically forget about our uniqueness in the world or what we might offer a world filled with more than seven billion people. Ironically, we can get caught up in our
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Zachary hurried into the kitchen. “Mom, can I take some lemonade out to Mr. Smith? He’s cleaning his driveway, and I think he’s thirsty.” Mom pulled a batch of cookies out of the oven. She was going to give the warm treat to a lady who fell on the ice and broke her shoulder. “Do
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Duck Dynasty family costume Throw on a beard and some camouflage and you’re ready to create your own Duck Dynasty family costume! The Incredibles Be the Incredible family this Halloween! Despicable Me Don’t forget about Lucy, Margo, Agnes, and Edith. Get details about this Despicable Me costume here>> Hot dog stand These hot dog costumes
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You have to. The kids are bouncing off the walls, shouting, crying, crashing around, misbehaving zestily and creatively. The TV quiets them down. They concentrate on the program. They become angels. Click to tweet:The sound of your loving voice, your physical closeness. Stories bring you and your children together. And thus you can cook,
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Playing the waiting game can be a hunger-stoking experience for children, and certainly will for younger kids. You’ll want to be stocked up on snack foods aplenty, especially with dinner so many hours in the past. Don’t worry about needing a sea of sugary foods for your kids to gorge on, though. We’ve put together
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My husband and I rent movies each weekend, our mental vacation from our hectic week, a means of recuperation and rejuvenation provided by a healthy dose of Hollywood escapism. Some weekends, a raunchy comedy laced with a heady aroma of political incorrectness fits the bill, other weeks, a mindless action movie offers the perfect venue
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On April 15, 2013, forty-five year-old Todd Losee ran his third Boston Marathon. At home in West Michigan, his wife and two kids excitedly awaited word about how he had performed. But their world shifted when they learned their husband and father had been swept into the epicenter of a terrorist attack. They were
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