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How to Prepare Our Little Girls Now for Their Future Weddings
When my daughters were little, they received a treasure for their imaginations—a container full of dress-up costumes, including the ever-popular wedding dress. Do you have a pint-size princess bride twirling through your home? Delightful giggles bubble out as she waves from the top of the sofa—I mean, her horse-drawn carriage. Perhaps she shares with you all the magnificent details of her royal wedding. Savor these sweet imaginative moments. Because there's a fine crack between glass slippers and reality. Unless there's a fairy godmother or a rich grandmother in the story, you may not be able to make your little girl’s fairytale wedding dreams come true. Fear not. I have four…
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40+ Meaningful Family Projects [Tweens & Teens]
Here’s a list of 40+ meaningful family projects, especially for families with tweens and teens. Fresh ideas of things to do beyond entertaining the kids. But first, let's remember why it's important to engage in projects together as a family.
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2021 Challenge: Change the Conversation
Usually, a new year prompts us to improve something—our weight, our wisdom, our way of living. After all of the COVID-related subjects in 2020, perhaps the 2021 challenge is to change the conversation. Not to brush realities under the rug or to ignore important issues, but to consider a taking a different, refreshing approach. Find out why and how . . .
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Unexpected News: No Hospital Room for Expectant Mom
t's unexpected news to hear today there's no hospital room available for an expectant mom to deliver her baby. I wasn’t going to blog the week of Christmas, but this story is begging to be told. Our daughter is nine months pregnant. Any moment now, she will give birth to a son. He is positioned and ready. We’re just waiting on him to make his journey. However, at the time of this writing, there is no birthing room available for them. Our daughter and her husband chose a smaller hospital because they love the obstetricians there. Also, they know the larger hospital has a lot of COVID cases and so…
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Should We Alter Our Christmas Traditions?
The holidays are here and many folks are asking the same question, “Should we alter our Christmas traditions this year?” Every December, I purchase a new calendar for the upcoming year. Immediately, I pen in people’s birthdays and the rest of our traditional activities for the year. Do you do something similar? Last December, did you pen in all of this year’s festivities and family gatherings? There was no need to use a pencil because the traditions have always been celebrated the same way every year. Right? But, now! The calendar has been violated with red slashes, arrows, and scribbles. People are making changes. Some are cancelling events altogether. That’s…
