Category: Family

  • Make Family Meals A Part Of You Routine – Planning Family Meals Together Reap Great Rewards

    Make family meals a part of your dining routine.  Planning family meals together can reap great rewards for you and your loved ones. Because of the hectic lives we seem to lead these days, getting the family together in the same place at the same time can be difficult.  Between work schedules, errands, and running…

  • The Art Of Listening – Active Listening Exercises For Kids

    Teaching your child the art of listening will assist him, to not only listening to you but aid him in learning to communicating with others.  Good Listening skills take practice.  It’s never too early to enlist your kids in active listening exercises. Be An Effective Listener Yourself Be an effective listener yourself.  It is the…

  • Teaching Creativity

    Teaching creativity is a hoax…. can’t be done.  “Ya either got it your ya don’t.”  And… you know what… “ya got it.” Of course, it depends upon what definition you want to give the word.  If you lock “creativity” in a box with the labels such as “Music,” “Art,” “Writing” and “Dance” most people will fail…

  • Christmas Coloring Printables – Kids Christmas List

    Christmas Coloring Printables are great to keep kids busy. This year, a Kids Christmas List as been added. There is a Snowman coloring printable included.

  • Turkey Coloring Pages for Turkey Day

    The turkey coloring pages are ready for your kids and grands to enjoy.  Again… kids love to decorate for the holidays and the young ones love to color.  The first coloring page is in black and white so the kids can use crayons or markers to decorate  their turkey picture.  For those who want to…

  • Halloween Printable Coloring Pages

    Halloween printable coloring pages  can keep your young kids busy for a long time.  I bring them out after Sunday dinner and it keeps the grands occupied for an hour or so.  The kids love ’em.    It  give all their parents a little break so the”old”  folks can visit with each other in peace. …

  • Homemade Father’s Day Gifts – For Inexpensive Unique Gift Giving

    Unique Father’s days Gifts are sometimes hard to come by.  For some reason, my father was more difficult to buy for than my mom.  He seemed to be a bit “needless,” but he always provided well for all of our “needs.”  Of course, there was the standard white shirt and a pair of new socks…

  • Hair Dryers – Ionic Ceramic Dryers

    Hair dryers eventually die… and this week mine bit the dust.  Immediately, the words, “Ionic ceramic dryers”came rushing into my mind.  Several months ago, my sister, Sheila, raved about her new ionic dryer  and, come to find out… the hair dryer buzzword is, Ionic. What this means is… the coil that produces the heat is…

  • Mother’s Day Coloring Cards – Mother’s Day Coloring Pages

    These Mother’s Day coloring pages are just in time for your kids to make a card for Mom or Grandma. There are two Mother’s Day cards and two flat coloring sheets the kids can hang on the fridge or on the door to surprise Mom.  Here are the Mother’s day Cards: Click on the red…

  • Shopping Tradition And Financial Lesson

    My grandkids and I have a fun shopping tradition that we enjoy in a couple of times a year. The number of “grands” that join in the shopping spree vary. Some times there’s four kids and other times there’s as many as seven or eight at one time. The kids range from 3 years to…