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Post 300:Hightlights from the Past 100 Posts

Here are some of the highlights from the last 100 posts.
Team Sports-Are They Ready?:Here’s a small checklist to see if your child is ready to play team sports.
Our Children and the Environment: What can we do to make our children more aware?
Old Crocs Traveling to Needy Places: See how you can help someone else with […]

Our Children and the Environment

Let’s face it. It’s up to us to educate our children to the importance of taking care of our environment. They are the ones who will be living in it much longer than we will. I read a great article on cnn.com today on getting our children involved.
It’s titled, “10 ways to […]

Locks of Love

Locks of Love is a public non-profit organization that provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children under age 18 suffering from long-term medical hair loss from any diagnosis. They meet a unique need for children by using donated hair to create the highest quality hair prosthetics.
Most of the children helped by Locks […]

Lookybook.com

This is a great resource for those in the market for purchasing picture books. If you’re like me, you don’t always have the time to sit and browse through books at the store before buying them. Lookybook.com gives you the chance to do this in the comfort of your own home. Simply […]

Loans That Change Lives

A few months ago, a close friend introduced me to www.kiva.org, a great organization that helps change real lives. Kiva lets you connect with and loan money to unique small businesses in the developing world. By choosing a business on Kiva.org, you can “sponsor a business” and help the world’s working poor make great […]

New Year’s Resolutions

We hope you enjoyed our series on New Year’s Resolutions. We had fun writing them and hope you were able to get some info. or even motivation from them. If you didn’t get a chance to see them all you can find them under the New Year’s Resolutions category. If your working on […]

Becoming Healthy and Happy

Hopefully, now that we’re well into January, our New Year’s resolutions are still in full swing! I find it funny in myself that when a new year rolls around I get way excited for like 2 weeks, and then I have to kick myself in gear to keep the momentum going! I’d have […]

Be Prepared

No matter where you live there is always some kind of disaster that could strike your area. Here in the Seattle area we just had a large amount of flooding which effected thousands of people in our state.  It came on suddenly and people literally watched as their houses fill with water.  Homes were lost, […]

Organizing Yourself and Your Home

I quit my job in June of 2005 to stay home with our children. I worked full-time during two pregnancies and didn’t quit until our second child was almost 6 months old. During those years, I got really good at coming up with a routine for our family. I learned how […]

Living Simple

There’s a lot talk lately about saving our resources and creating a world that our children will be able to grow old in. All this talk is a good thing because it’s making our society more aware of the way our world is heading, and it’s getting people motivated about making some changes in […]