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Webinars on Tombstones, Brick Walls, Family Secrets, and More!

Genealogy webinars are wonderful. You can learn something new about genealogy without having to leave the comfort of your own home. Often, the webinars are free to attend. Or, if you wait a bit, you can watch the recorded version of it for free later on. Here are a few genealogy webinars that will be happening soon. On October 25, 2012, Ancestry.com LIVE will have a webinar called “Common Ground – What Family Secrets Can Be Uncovered in Cemeteries”. It will begin at 1:00 in the afternoon and end at 2:00 in the afternoon, EDT. You need to RSVP if … Continue reading →

Your Homeschool, Your Schedule

Most states require you homeschool a total of 900 hours per year. I am not aware of any state requiring those hours being used in a certain time frame. Please always be sure to check your state laws concerning homeschooling before following advice or directions from an article or person. If your state does not require hours of school to be used in a particular time frame either by hours or months of year, then please do not feel confined to follow the traditional school year or school hours. During my eight years of homeschooling my lifestyle has changed and … Continue reading →

Primary Time: Focus on Easter

Easter is just around the corner, and it is one of the most important holidays that we celebrate. Teaching our children about Eater is important. It is time to learn about the Atonement, Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus. Unfortunately commercialism often gets in the way of celebrating the true meaning of Easter. You can bring your children’s focus on Easter back to the real meaning of the holiday through several different means. The first and easiest thing to do is to separate the Easter Bunny and other commercial type celebrations from the celebration that you have on Sunday. This allows … Continue reading →

Saving Money While Celebrating the Fourth with Family on the Road

Chock it up to the exorbitant price of gas, or perhaps the summer traffic, either way a new AAA report says many Americans plan to spend the Fourth of July holiday closer to home this year. The news has sparked lodgings in the Northeastern portion of the U.S. to offer amazing summer savings to families who want to hit the highway and spend the holiday weekend away from home. Take a look: NEW HAMPSHIRE Your family can take a step back in time and enjoy an old-fashioned Fourth of July at the Sunset House in Sugar Hill, New Hampshire for … Continue reading →

Celebrating Easter

Easter is a wonderful time to celebrate the Resurrection of Christ. It is also a time to remember the Atonement and the crucifixion, and all that Christ did for each of us so we could be with Him again. Each year you can help your family to celebrate the Easter holiday and understand the true reason that we celebrate this holy day. One thing that you may wish to do is to focus on Christ leading up to Easter. You may choose to read from the New Testament in the weeks preceding Easter. You can pick the stories you want … Continue reading →

Emphasize the Spiritual Events of Easter

Easter is one of the most important holidays. It is when we set aside time to remember and celebrate the Atonement and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. These events made it possible for us to repent. They opened the way so that we may return to live with our Heavenly Father again. The events that we remember are so important, but it can be too easy to let them be pushed aside. Children often think only of Easter in terms of the candy, Easter egg hunts and presents received. While these activities are fun, they can distract from the true meaning … Continue reading →

Five Resources for Ideas for Family Home Evenings

If you are like me you are always on the lookout for new ideas for family home evening, or at least new ways to present the same gospel topics. Coming up with ideas can be the most difficult part of planning family home evening. Here are five ideas that may help you to make your family home evenings more meaningful. 1) If you can sit down and plan out three to six months worth of lessons, you will have more time to prepare the lessons. You can plan ahead to include lessons for big life events. Of course you can … Continue reading →

Upcoming Genealogy Events – Week of July 8, 2012

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Will you be attending a genealogy conference, workshop, or event this week? There are plenty of them going on. All you have to do is find on that is located near you. This blog has a quick list of some of the genealogy events that are going on this week. On July 10, 2012, the Harris County Library, which is located in Cypress, Texas, will host a genealogy seminar. It will be presented by Kimberly Gay, resident academic reference librarian. She will discuss new research practices to use with genealogy. This is for library patrons who want to research their … Continue reading →

The Seventh and Eighth Weeks Post Partum

Seven weeks out from my daughter’s birth, I seemed to have hit a bit of a rut. While I am still feeling great, my sweets intake has increased due to recent celebrations and my motivation to exercise seems to be dwindling a little bit too. My diet started veered off course when I put together a party for my daughter’s baptism. I made the famous red velvet cupcakes. They were both tasty and calorie heavy especially with the cream cheese frosting. After that I made my thanksgiving pumpkin pie and pumpkin bread, using the sweet pumpkins I had processed and … Continue reading →

Children Teach Us to Appreciate

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Yesterday, for family home evening, we decided to talk about the earth, and how it was created. This is a simple topic for our 4 year old. I asked her what she knew about the earth. She said, that she knew that it, “turns, and circles around the sun, and that half of it is in the daytime, and half is in the night time” I was amazed at how much she already knew. I then asked her, “Do you know who created the earth?” She said, “Jesus”. Children do not take things for granted. Every day is a new … Continue reading →