As I graduated high school, I took an opportunity to be a Nanny. It was clear across the country and with a Jewish family, whom I absolutely came to adore. While I wasn’t Jewish, I came to love their religion. One moment that stands out is we went to Atlantic City to visit their relatives […]
Slow Down Your Family and Create Joy
Life gets to us. It seems everyone I meet or talk to mentions their busy schedules. We’re seemingly holding it together, but I know in my own childhood there was a slower pace where we had time to connect and enjoy our life as a family. Bernadette Noll, author of Slow Family Living: 75 Simple […]
The Value of Adventure for Teens Awaits in The Lightbridge Legacy
Teens and tweens will delight in discovering the first book in the Lightbridge series by Elayne C. James. Destiny’s Call has 12-year-old Ani Jasper on a quest to discover who she is and why her abilities allow her to travel through dreams into the unknown. Ani Jasper leaves her home in the Mojave Desert and […]
Healthy, Homemade, Clean Food Made Fast, Simple & Delicious
For years a new year meant a new diet. Then it became a juggling act of how to balance my diet with my family’s. Add to the equation busy weeknights and failure to plan meant breaking the budget for take-out or resorting to less than my family deserved family meals. I’ve simplified and try and […]
The Sparkle Box: Inspire a New Holiday Tradition
Tired of the commercialism that bleeds through the holiday? Want your children to learn more about the meaning of Christmas? I know both of these I could honestly answer, ‘Yes” to without a second thought. This year we are starting a new family tradition and it all started with a story called The Sparkle Box. […]