Search Results for: blog learning resolutions for your family

Learning Resolutions for Your Family

January 1st: this is the time when we tend to review the past and look to the future. It feels like a bit of an arbitrary date, but any day’s a good one to reflect on your family’s learning over the course of the year. I like the concept of a personal annual review. I’ll be attempting to take on that task today, to evaluate where I’ve been and where I’m going. Today, take a few minutes to reflect on your family’s learning this year and where you’d like to go next year. During your family learning review, what should … Continue reading →

FamilySearch has New, Free, Online Classes

What are your genealogy goals for 2012? For some genealogists, the answer to that question is that they want to take a some genealogy classes. The cost of those classes might be holding you back. Fortunately, there are some free, online, classes that are offered by FamilySearch. The start of a new year is an opportunity to make changes. It is time to make new goals, or “New Year’s Resolutions”, about what you hope to accomplish in the next twelve months. For genealogists, this could mean anything from finally starting work on a family tree, to signing up with the … Continue reading →

Frugal Fun Resolutions for the New Year

Being frugal can be fun, just as long as you keep some fun in your life. Sure there is joy in the fun of finding the best deal and feeling like you are stealing, but being frugal day after day, can be a downer if you shut the joy out of your life in your pursuit of frugality. With that said, here are my frugal resolutions for 2010. Frugal fun resolutions #1: Find free community activities to do and do them at least once a month. There are movies in the park. There are free museum days. There are local … Continue reading →

Already Tired of Resolutions? Give Yourself a Rest

You may think it’s a bit late for New Year’s resolutions, but I always give myself some slack the first two weeks of January. I want to enjoy the full 12 Days of Christmas, and then I want to get back into the work/school routine again so that I can really see where we want to make changes. I have made suggested resolutions for adoptive parents before, and made others just for myself before. Upcoming blogs will have my reflections on those resolutions, as well as information on events in 2008 that affect the world of adoption, such as the … Continue reading →

Suggested New Year’s Resolutions for Adoptive Parents

I’m not going to look at my last year’s New Year’s Resolutions blog before I write this one. I’m just going to go with what’s on my mind now. So what is on my mind now? Too much, that’s what. I want to have more meaningful family conversations at the dinner hour. I want to find a book that the whole family can enjoy reading by the fireside in the evenings—and keep reading age-appropriate books with each child individually too. I want to do all my physical therapy exercises and see if I can finally quit re-injuring myself. I want … Continue reading →

New Year, New Resolutions

Photo by Bill Kolios 2006 was a decent year for me. The highlight was getting hired on by Families.com as one of their Pets Bloggers. I’m still new (come January 1, I’ll celebrate my one month anniversary), and I’m still learning. But already in that short time I’ve learned so much from reading the other blogs as well as through my own research. And now it’s that time of year: Time to bid fond farewell to the past year, while anticipating the arrival of the new one. I like making resolutions. It keeps me honest and gives me something to … Continue reading →

Heading Back to School

Many of us, myself included, are heading back into our homeschool routines tomorrow. Some of us only took time off for the holidays – I’ve been in the Twilight Zone the last month because of a car accident, and so I’m having to reacclimatize myself to the whole thing. Whether you took a week off, two weeks off, or a month off from school, you’ll find the same challenges. 1. Motivation. It’s so easy to let school slide. If you’re tired or don’t feel well, school is one of the first things to go. And after time off, it’s really … Continue reading →

Roots Tech Is Almost Here!

Many genealogists are taking their family history research beyond the record books and onto their computers. Software programs for mapping family trees and online databases for searching all kinds of records are just a few of the ways that genealogists can use technology to help their research along and preserve it for years to come. New technologies are being developed all the time and some of them are geared towards family history researchers. If you have ever wondered what would happen if technology developers and genealogists got together, wonder no more. There is a new conference that will be taking … Continue reading →

Spending Isn’t the Problem

With the shaky economy this past holiday season there was some trepidation about what to expect in consumer spending. Would Americans still spend money during these tough economic times? The answer was a resounding yes. That’s because spending isn’t the problem. We will keep spending even when we don’t have it. I know because I have been there. I have been just as guilty as the next American of doing it. So while spending isn’t the problem, what is the problem is learning how to separate needs from wants. I think we have a tough time with this. While some … Continue reading →

Pregnancy and Relationships: Introduction

There are milestones in a person’s life that dramatically impact her relationships with the people around her: learning to drive and gaining independence, going off to college, getting married, and having children are just a few. Her first pregnancy, the prelude to parenthood, has the potential to inspire, alienate, divide and strengthen the relationships in her life. How she copes with these changes can affect the bond between her and her child, her spouse, her parents, her in-laws and her friends. In the spirit of Christmas and family-togetherness, over the next few days, we’ll be discussing how pregnancy impacts each … Continue reading →