FAMILY
These posts look at family -- parenting, marriage, parents, the entire bit!
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How to Get Your Kids Active Today
Happy Monday – or as happy as a Monday can be! Mondays are grab bag days so posts on Mondays will be grab bags as well. Today we are looking at a topic that many of us are facing – couch-bound children entranced by electronic devices… Electronics. While these devices have transformed our lives in ways that weren’t even imaginable a decade ago, electronics have quickly become children’s activity of choice. Our kids don’t want to get up and go outside –unless they can bring their device and there’s wireless available. As parents, we have to push them to let go of the device and get active. For example, my…
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How to Work towards a More Balanced Life
Happy Tuesday! I haven’t gone back to work since my transplant yet. But I used to be self-employed – and worked from home. There were a lot of benefits to controlling my working hours and even how much work I did. But one major challenge of working from home was the work-life balance—there typically wasn’t any! You find yourself working really late or running errands during your work time. Creating a work-life balance can be tough. It’s hard to find the delicate balance between a happy work life and happy home life. There are a few things that you can do both at work and at home to create a…
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Friday Follies: The Children Are Out of School Today?
It’s Friday. The kids are out of school which surprised me. They missed so much school at the beginning of the year because of Hurricane Harvey. The school district already took away the President’s Day holiday, so I thought all holidays were at risk. Unfortunately, I didn’t realize they were going to be at home until Wednesday…so I hadn’t really thought about what we were going to do all day. Oops. We do have choices… 1. Organize the Kitchen Maybe we’ll work on the kitchen – I had started on the kitchen before surgery. I did major work on the pantry and cabinets. Almost everything is in a glass jar,…
