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As chaotic as life in the NICU can be, it is the daily routines that provide order. Parents and staff know that everyday there will be morning sign-out, daily rounds, a time for procedures, scheduled feedings, appointments with therapists, and which consulting doctors will come to see the ... Views: 930
Each and everyone one of us is like a rose - unique and beautiful.
For us parents, the beauty and uniqueness of each of our children radiates intense love from our eyes and through our hearts from that first moment we hold them in our arms. The natural desire to love them, care for them, ... Views: 1290
An extract from my forthcoming ebook "How To Make Money - Even In A Recession"
What is the meaning of life?
Many people have put much thought in to this question. Religions have fought and people have died over it. Funny thing is that they are all working on the same basic idea. I’m going ... Views: 1091
Many people I know don’t find joy in the holidays. Too much stress and work. The chores of cooking, shopping and cleaning are often multiplied during the holidays, leaving you feeling put-upon and resentful. One year a friend had a tree trimming dinner party, and she wouldn’t give her guests ... Views: 1821
Is a part of you dreading the holidays because you know that no matter how you slice the pie it means confronting certain members of the family you’d rather avoid all together?
If so, you’re not alone. The holidays are supposed to be the most festive time of the year but let’s face it – ... Views: 1535
How does a man get over a divorce or a relationship that had run its course? Other than one’s friends or the bars where can a man turn to get support or the needed help to just talk and figure out how to get back on the road to self confidence and feel good about himself again?
A friend of ... Views: 1417
My Dad died. There…I said it out loud. Even though I was by his side and saw him take his very last breath, it’s been hard to believe he’s gone forever. F-o-r-e-v-e-r.
I wanted to write this article for Thanksgiving so I could publicly thank him and show my gratitude. How trite, I thought. It ... Views: 1722
By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts.
Let’s face it, holiday lights help put you in the spirit of the season. Like the holiday lights, the people you love and who love you light up your life.
“Oh, there’s no place like home for the holidays,
‘Cause no matter how far away you ... Views: 3226
Do you dread mornings and feel like you always have to walk on eggshells because you are stressed to the max before you ever leave home in the mornings? Do you feel like a failure as a mother because your kids leave home without a good breakfast or lunch and everyone is fighting? Here are 4 ... Views: 2919
Dear Dr. Romance:
I am in a relationship with a man who twenty years younger. He is black, and I am white. We are very much in love. The problem is that my parents are very much against my dating a black man. They do not like the age difference either, but the being black is worse. This is ... Views: 1956
“Compromise!” Your spouse says. “We’ll compromise! We’ll go to your folks for Christmas Eve, and my folks for Christmas Day. That way everybody will be happy – your family and mine.”
Yeah, you think, everybody except me!
All you want is some peace and quiet with your own husband and ... Views: 1335
I will raise my hand and admit. I love to have my parents come in town AND I also love to see them go home. I LOVE my parents. I enjoy spending time with my parents; we always have a fabulous time. Picking them up at the airport is a joy-filled event and so is dropping them off at the ... Views: 1284
The Holidays bring about good and bad memories of past holiday seasons. I have a girlfriend Nancy who newly divorced is having her first Thanksgiving without the kids this year. It's tough; there is no denying it. Thanksgiving will be different for her; but that doesn't mean it'll be bad. ... Views: 1304
By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts.
The holiday season is a time of celebration. It is a time to be with family and friends. It is a time to be with the one you love. The holiday season is not a time for stress!
We have all seen it—the grandest of holiday plans come crashing ... Views: 2389
At the end of a good dinner body and soul both enjoy a remarkable sense of well-being.
--Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Though written in the 19th century, this quote from a leading food essayist holds true today. Although we are all balancing a full plate of activities and tasks, dinner ... Views: 1306
Everyone deals with struggles in life, things that happen which are out of our control. What is most important is how you confront these life struggles. Do you continue to live your life being miserable or do you take control, find your voice, and persevere? I, like all people in life, had my ... Views: 1203
A big part of any Christmas celebration is getting in touch with people, whether they are friends or family, whom you might have drifted away from during the rest of the year. The whole celebration is the perfect excuse to renew acquaintances and let people know that they’re always in your ... Views: 1585
For many parents who are divorced or in the process of going through divorce, holidays are especially challenging to navigate through without losing your cool. As you begin to prepare for the holidays by filling up your freezer full of turkey and pies, it is also wise to prepare ahead of time ... Views: 2563
Do you know the difference between projecting your voice and yelling? The latter hurts your throat and can be painful to your listeners’ ears. The latter also does not make your children sit up and take notice of what you are saying. Instead, they either cower in fear or stop listening to ... Views: 2494
How to have a Stress-Free, Restorative, Thankful, Out of the Box, 2012 Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving begins our year-end holiday season. It's supposed to be a time of giving thanks and love but can you hear your moans and feel the dread in the atmosphere. Why? Often we get so caught up in the ... Views: 1037
If you are like most parents, you want to make sure that your child has the best of everything that is available to them. This would include introducing music in their lives at an early age. Of course, this is something that may meet with a certain amount of resistance when you are trying to get ... Views: 1382
One of the problems that many children experience during extended breaks, such as summer vacation is that they can get bored. This is something that can often lead to trouble, especially if they tend to get a little bit rambunctious when they don't have anything else to do. Many parents have ... Views: 1277
It is very important that a husband and wife harbor respect and sacred vision towards each other. Thus there shall ensue, soul advancement, social progress, happiness and peace. Those taking a vow of celibacy and those who remain unmarried must harbor a pure pious viewpoint towards all males and ... Views: 1117
I don’t know about you, but my family is crazy during the holidays. Their worst attributes seem to find a way to show up. It doesn’t matter that my mom is German and she didn’t even grow up in the states, she seems to develop a weird mood at the onset of Thanksgiving or any other holiday. ... Views: 1344
There's nothing unusual to have feelings for your ex-boyfriend. Feelings might be strong enough that you would like to catch him back again. First of all, just stay back and evaluate the situation before you decide to begin what might be a foolish pursuit of him. Do you think that he wants this ... Views: 1321
When it comes to switching from traditional photography to the world of digital image capturing, the first thing you’ll notice is the sheer number of photographs you’re now able to take, free from the constraints of rolls of film and the prohibitive cost of having photographs developed. Having ... Views: 1818
Wedding is a big event in everyone’s personal life. Regardless of the style you've chosen for the wedding, music will play an important component in every aspects of the celebration. Music will entertain your wedding guests before the wedding begins. Whenever choosing music for your wedding day ... Views: 1117
There are a several theme parties that you can throw, but a more sophisticated version would be to have masquerade ball. There are several themes that you can have your ball around such as Halloween.
As long as you and everyone else can find an appropriate costume, there is no reason why you ... Views: 983
Those who hear the word “discount” instantly visualize products that are few in number, have already been left or put on clearance after all others have gone through them, and those that are not always of the best quality. However, those who think of a discount wallpaper border in the same way ... Views: 1070
You will be quite overwhelmed as you search for diseases that can affect our dogs. You may want to include all of those that affect every system in their body and if you do, the number of diseases will number in the thousands.
Perhaps it may be more important to focus on the most common ... Views: 1621
We are moving to the Family Category today. (Yes, even posted a pic from a favorite family weekend of Aly’s here). We were tempted to jump into the Career or Financial Category, but we want to cover Family first because when you begin to shape your career brand, you will want to first be clear ... Views: 1830
A holiday party is less than fun when you’re the one arriving late, or forgetting the gifts, or – worst of all – scrambling in the kitchen and wishing you had never volunteered to play host while hungry guests sit in the living room.
As the nights grow frosty and the dreams of sugar plums ... Views: 2013
Creating unique works of art is something which gives a sense of satisfaction few people besides artists get to feel. Knowing that the image on your wall is yours and yours alone is satisfying in a way which mass produced canvas photo prints can’t even begin to approach.
In an ideal world, ... Views: 1856
I brought my beautiful blue-eyed 3 week old daughter to her baby shower 15 years ago and the guests were invited to give me their best parenting advice. I heard many things from "nap when your baby naps" to "wash all the clothes you're receiving as gifts right away so you'll know what size they ... Views: 1395
As a child I learned VERY early on to NEVER say "I'm bored". We'd get a job handed to us in no time flat! That didn't mean we never got bored - it just mean we quit verbalizing it.
What if, instead of punishing our kids' boredom and putting a negative spin on it we prevented the boredom in ... Views: 1096
With the rise of social media there seems to be a sad trend emerging - public humiliation as a tactic for disciplining children. I was shocked and disturbed by how many of my own Facebook contacts were hitting "like" recently on a video of a father shooting his daughter's laptop as a form of ... Views: 2211
Welcoming a baby into the family is perhaps one of the happiest of occasions. That is why everything related to it has to be just perfect. If you are planning on having a baby shower for a loved one then you have a lot of planning to do. And you start of course with the invitations. The best ... Views: 606
When hosting a party one tends to worry about every little detail related to it. The decoration, the drinks, the food and more but what most people tend to forget is that the invitation too needs to be as enticing. After all that is the first impression you make about your party. If you make the ... Views: 604
It's holiday time! What a joyous time of year. Right? Well, for many, holiday gatherings symbolize struggles with family members who we tend to avoid the rest of the year.
This holiday season I would like to invite you to see your family gatherings as wonderful opportunities to heal. Instead ... Views: 1344
Within the deep cave of women’s soul dwells an ocean of human qualities like sensitivity, sentiments, love and serenity. Whenever the intellect predominated and the eternal balance faltered women with these precious qualities guided the wayward male fraternity and inspired world society in such ... Views: 1037
Aging can be insidious—it does not announce itself in a loud call or with a sign bearing big, bold letters. It creeps up on everyone’s lives, largely undetected. Often, the medical issues associated with aging become obvious only when the condition has become sufficiently serious to warrant a ... Views: 1249
While the use of a senior medical alert can be instrumental in preventing accidental falls among seniors, there is nothing more effective in falls prevention that helping the senior stay as physically fit as possible. Contrary to what may seem obvious, seniors can actually have a fighting chance ... Views: 1032
Giving gifts in itself can already be a daunting task, but much more so if it’s going to be given to people who are close to your heart. While you know they will always love you unconditionally, giving the right gift can never be too much of a good thing.
Perhaps most people would agree that ... Views: 886
With the several varieties of temptations and influences facing teenagers these days, especially alcohol and drug abuse, it's no wonder that many parents are opting for their children to enter drug rehabilitations facilities so they can return to good health and prevent other illnesses or ... Views: 1040
We all know that life today is not easy especially because the crisis has gone out in outdoors. People get themselves so consumed with stress with what's going on in the society that's affecting the livelihood of each and every individual. Through this, folks get depressed immediately due to ... Views: 851
When you are busy getting tasks done but you don’t get it all done are you hard on yourself, thinking you are a failure? Stop being so hard on yourself and start using a planner to help you accomplish more that you want to do guilt free.
I lift weights at the gym 5 days a week. My gym ... Views: 1529
The demands of society and personal contentment have left people in constant attempt to live up to a number of tallied expectations. Daily stressors like bills, peers, even family concerns have paved the way to an occasional practice of indulgence in alcohol or drugs. Individuals usually resort ... Views: 722
By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts.
Governor Romney was correct when he made the statement in the second Presidential Debate that “ . . . if there’s a two parent family, the prospect of living in poverty goes down dramatically. The opportunities that the child will be able to achieve ... Views: 2541
Christmas is one time of the year above all others when you want to let the people closest to you know just how much they mean to you. Choosing and giving gifts which resonate on a personal level is the clearest means of doing this, and creating items such as canvas photo prints using specially ... Views: 1975
HUSBAND / WIFE
The Real Wife—
Teaches her children to love and serve God always
Honors her husband and loves him sacrificially
Engages in learning activities that promote holiness in her marriage
Redeems and restores her husband when he falls out of grace
Expects her husband to be her ... Views: 1659