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Are You Bored With Genealogy?

Have you gotten to the point where your favorite hobby, genealogy, has become boring? This can happen with any activity that you spend too much time doing. Instead of quitting, forever, you could try one of these ideas to make genealogy exciting once again. People naturally want to spend as much time as possible on whatever their favorite hobby happens to be. This can bring a person hours upon hours of enjoyment. Eventually, though, even a favorite hobby can “lose its spark” and become boring. What can you do when you are bored with genealogy? Try some of these ideas! … Continue reading →

The Future is the Present Before You Know It

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I went to the park with my toddler and my baby today, and had a great time. The weather was beautiful and we met some friends there. Usually, my little man loves to be outside, and sit in his stroller and watch the other kids run around. Today, I got a little glimpse into future park play dates. Recently, my baby has gotten to be quite squirmy. He wants to be on the move even though he can’t even crawl yet! He is rolling over though, and I’ve decided really needs his space. He kept fussing in the stroller for … Continue reading →

The Future of Us by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler Book Review

The teenage years can be a time of discovering yourself. For Josh and Emma, this normal exploration goes one step more when they find their future selves online, several years into the future. The year is 1996, and Emma has just gotten a new computer, a guilt gift from her estranged father. When best friend Josh comes over with a AOL CD-ROM (remember AOL–America Online), their lives change. Somehow a portal opens up to Facebook, leaving the teens confusing and curious. Why are all of these people talking about what they had for dinner? It isn’t long before Josh and … Continue reading →

You May Not Want To Buy That Gift Just Yet

Did you know that there are a few things that you would be better off waiting until after Christmas to purchase? Even if you plan to give the items as gifts, the sale prices on these items after the holidays are likely to make you think twice before choosing to grab the item now instead of giving a gift card. For example, if you plan to give someone a television this year and you were unable to score one of the super amazing deals that happened on Black Friday, you can give a gift card in the approximate amount that … Continue reading →

How Do You LIKE That?

And you thought ESPN was bizarre. Just when you thought it was safe to turn to the cyberspace for baby name inspiration comes the story of Like Alder. Not Lee-kay or Lee-kai; it’s Like as in: I really like that name. Apparently an Israeli couple really, really, really liked the Like button on Facebook and decided to name their newborn daughter after it. No joke. According to news reports, when Lior and his wife Vardit Adler posted a picture of their darling daughter on Facebook, they got 40 “likes,” which is a good thing considering the couple looked to the … Continue reading →

Lessons Learned – New Health Blogger Intro

As a new health blogger for Families.com I wanted to take some time to introduce myself. Through the years I’ve been a granddaughter, daughter, two times a wife, sister, and a mother—five times over. At this point, my family consists of only my girls and my sister. Everyone else in my family passed on at a young age, even my first husband. I feel that facing so many health-related tragedies is what spurred me on to study many health fields, as well as doing my best to take care of my own health and that of my girls. No matter … Continue reading →

Giving Yourself Holiday Recovery Time

I have the unfortunate habit of getting sick over the holidays. It’s almost like my body knows that there are a few days off in my future, and saves up the sickness for those days so I don’t miss whatever important things are going on before and afterwards. On the positive side, it does kind of ensure that I use my holiday time for resting and taking good care of myself. Holidays (and vacations) can be wonderful and fun… but they can also be hectic and stressful. Travel can be full of worries, anxiety, and questions: will you make that … Continue reading →

You Get What You Pay For

This is my father in law’s justification to never buy cheap items. It took years to convince him that inexpensive does not always mean cheap. Some things have reduced prices because a new model has just been made. Other items have low prices because because they don’t come with alot of bells and whistles. Cheapism.com is a new website that proves that you can buy things for less money, and get the true value of your money. There’s nothing worse than buying a less expensive item trying to be frugal only to have to replace it in a few months. … Continue reading →

Anticipating Where You’d Like to go and Figuring Out What You’ll Need when You get There

While we are busy handling all the daily details and putting out fires in our home businesses in the present—there is still a certain amount of “forward thinking” that we need to do. One of the biggest challenges of running any sort of business is trying to figure out where you are going and anticipating what you might need when you get there… Planning in advance means that you can lay the foundation now so that the infrastructure is ready when you get where you are going. I know that for many of us, we just assume our business is … Continue reading →

Commish to Britney: Keep Away From Your Kids!

So much for Britney Spears’ claim in OK! magazine that she would “die” for her kids. The trainwreck didn’t even bother to show up for a court appearance that could have helped her regain custody of her two young sons. Monday afternoon a court commissioner ruled that the derailed singer still may not see her children Sean Preston, 2, and Jayden James, 1. According to court documents, the boys father Kevin Federline maintains sole legal and physical custody of the kids “indefinitely.” “The word victory is not something Mr. Federline or his counsel would ascribe to this situation,” Federline’s lawyer, … Continue reading →