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Family Home Evening: 4 Ideas for Teaching Life Skills to Your Children

One fund idea for a family home evening night is to have a time when you focus on teaching specific home making skills to your entire family. You should open with a short spiritual thought and scripture at the beginning of the night. You could plan to do this as “Missionary Prep” series or “Family Helper” series once a month. Here are four ideas of skills you may want to teach your family. 1) You can have a family home evening that teaches your family to cook. Some families have a system already implemented in which they have each child … Continue reading →

Father’s Day, Date Nights & Other Fun Events

What a great weekend we had here at home. My apologies for not writing a focused on Father’s Day article today as I intended. But starting late yesterday, my husband and I both shut down our computers and headed off to spend the next 24 hours focused on the family as a part of Father’s Day. Sometimes you need to make a conscious decision to shut off the responsibilities and the rest of the world and just be together as a family. Date Night Our daughter’s gymnastics school hosts a parent’s night out once a month. It’s a four-hour event … Continue reading →

The Marriage Blog Week in Review March 30th – April 7th

Where is our Marriage Blog Week in Review? Yes, we’ve been absent for a month, but here we are back and in full form – I hope. You can expect to see our Week in Reviews returning to their traditional Saturday spot. In the meanwhile, let’s do a quick rundown of the first week of April! Friday March 30th Sherry offers you some great ideas in her Four Fun Date Night Ideas and we can always use a good idea, so be sure to check that out. Sunday April 1st Did you know that a bi-partisan committee announced legislation that … Continue reading →

Four Fun Date Night Ideas

You finally made time for a date night, but now you can’t come up with an idea for something fun to do. Well, the ideas below might appeal to you or maybe they’ll inspire you to come up with something. As the weather gets warmer, more opportunities will present themselves, so take advantage of the great outdoors whenever possible with picnics, hikes, and the like. Check out some of these ideas instead of the same old stuff: Be a Good Sport In other words, go outside and play. Playing sports together can be a lot of fun and a little … Continue reading →

2006 in Review: Homeschooling Blog at a Glance

As a new homeschooling blogger at Families.com, I wanted to know everything that has been discussed to date. In response to my own curiosity, and in an effort to make perusing our articles easier for you, our readers, I have compiled all of the blogs for the year 2006. Deciding to Homeschool Why homeschool Am I qualified for this? Reasons that Homeschooling Works! My Most Important Advice for Homeschoolers. The Cost of Homeschooling Instead of standing up for their own kids, why not stand up for all kids? Disclaimer: I am hardly an expert in education. Did You Know? ‘Empirical … Continue reading →

Ancestry.com Had Another Site Outage

Did you have problems using Ancestry.com the other night? It probably wasn’t because of something wrong with your computer. The popular genealogy website had it’s second site outage in less than a month. The issue, whatever it was, has been resolved, but it is leaving people who pay for the service with some questions. On August 9, 2012, the popular genealogy website, Ancestry.com, experienced a site outage. It carried over into August 10, 2012 before things got resolved. Since the website was inaccessible, someone at Ancestry.com posted a status on their Facebook page that noted that they were aware of … Continue reading →

Summer Travel: Kids’ Choice

My neighbor’s 12-year-old son, Chase left for his first sleep away camp yesterday. However, instead of it being a somber moment, my neighbor came up with the brilliant idea of turning the event into a mini vacation for the rest of the family. Chase’s camp is located in the northern part of Wisconsin, a good four hours away from our hometown. Instead of driving four hours there and four hours back in a single day, the family will be spending two nights in a rented lakeside cottage in a town not far from Chase’s camp after they drop him off. … Continue reading →

Home Month in Review: November 2008

Is your home ready for the holidays and winter? Now that November is over, it is time to gear up for the December ahead. Take a look at last months articles and see if there is anything you missed! November 1st Home Blog Month in Review: October As I sit here looking out my window at the backyard, the birds are hovering in the pine tree against a strong wind and steady rain. The temperature is chilly today, and the calendar reminds me that we have left October behind. November 2nd Fall and Holiday Decorating with Nature 2 Isn’t it … Continue reading →

Make Time For Each Other

In all marriages it is important to make time to be together, alone- away from family and friends. It doesn’t matter whether you’ve been married a long time or only a short time, whether your have a family or not. We need to take time just to spend together, enjoying each other’s company and connecting. Too often, work and family pressures can stop us from spending time together. It is too easy to get caught up in the busyness of life and neglect what, after our relationship with God, should be our most important relationship, that with our spouse. They … Continue reading →

Recession Proof Your Marriage: Dinner

The other day I proposed that marriages could actually benefit from recession. To start us off on the right-thinking foot, I proposed giving thanks for what we have right now. (Mainly, each other and any time we spend together, because that’s precious in and of itself.) Sometimes it just takes looking at all the good we enjoy to realize everything else isn’t as bad as it seems. However, I also hinted that I’d explore other ways a recession could benefit marriage. After giving the matter some thought, I’ve come up with some date night ideas. Ones that use the recession … Continue reading →