Summer's here, and the work of the homestead's kicking into high gear.

Forget the Easter Bunny, where are the blueberries and ravens?

Love doesn't hurt

Spiderman's Uncle Ben was right: with "great power" comes great responsibility!

The color of car speaks about your character
Every person chooses colors that best fit his character. It relates to almost all spheres of our life.
Thus you may find out some steaks of your admirer judging by the color of his car (of course if he has the latter).

Reality clearly shows that the number of heterosexual couples is exceeded by the number of children who patiently wait for them.

What happened to our life savings?

Love isn’t some prison that we use to keep people around no matter what; it just cannot work that way.

A Million Little Eyes Are Looking To You For An Answer

"Merry Christmas" Sounds Insensitive To The Man Whose Lost It All

Too Often Its Easier To Parent From The Wallet Than The Heart

Christmas is not about how much money you spend; but instead about how much love you send.

Thoughts on the concept of family, and a nice little place in the woods.

Children need to be TAUGHT discipline.

Shopping Carts are not Purse Holders!

All new mothers have plenty of questions to ask, both before and after the new arrival makes its first appearance – and the internet is the best place to go to get the answers.

Three Generations of Women Under One Roof

Ruminations on the nature of work and the dangers of declaring a day off.

The Homesteader family turns its back on suburbia for a new life in the Alaskan wilderness.

 

Max doesn’t like to talk about work during dinner, but his boundaries regarding talking about work dissipate when he and Nancy are in bed.  This is a rule, but it is an implicit rule, it was never discussed and Nancy learned when they could or couldn’t talk about work while they were dating. But that Nancy knows this about Max reduces conflict and this is the purpose of rules.  Without rules families would have to constantly navigate through daily interactions increasing the chance for misunderstandings and instability within the unit...

Does everybody suffer from some kind of abuse? Read this article & decide for yourself.

Positive or Negative Ways of Thinking.

New research reveals some surprising things about premature babies and their responses to physical contact.  Publication of this research also reveals some of the horrifying things that may have been done to you in the vague, cloudy days of your infancy.

Prank calls are one of the most annoying things in the entire world.  If you have received one or two, you probably shook your head and wished that the caller would get a life and stop aggravating people.

A victim of susceptible maniac depression and irritable mood swings, I wouldn’t have ever bothered myself with an article outline such as this or it’s like. But upon being gifted a Coffee Mug with an astrological depiction of my sun sign and it’s prominent characteristic in 7 to 8 bold perspectives, I couldn’t help but think ‘Magnetic…Me?’

Horoscopes from the hood

My sister explained to us how the Neely’s raved about this dish.With all the moaning and groaning they did she thought this was a dish we should definitely try.

Every so often, but no more often than ten times a day. I wonder what is wrong with our government. I don't mean just Washington, DC. I mean on the state and local level as well. Some days it simply defies understanding.

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Surviving the heat this summer


In many parts of the world the summer days can seem torturous, we wait all year for the summer and then we have days we can't even go outside. So what can we do to keep our minds and bodies cool: well there is the obvious, go swimming, sit in an air-conditioned room, cool off with an ice cream. So those are just a few but what else can we do to keep our selves from melting away.