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The Kids Are Driving Me Crazy!

Kids I have four children. So, sometimes it gets really crazy around my house. While my 17 year-old is yelling at her younger brothers, her brothers (ages 11 & 12) play fighting and screaming back at...

1 comment    family children kids
oh shoot, I think I'll wait for lunch after all!71

Update on My Cats

I'm a caretaker of about 11 feral type cats here in Bullhead City, Arizona, population around 43,000, and I've no idea what the cat population is, or would be if the babies were not taken to animal control, ...

2 comments    animal welfare feral cats
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Ways to Show A Cancer Patient You Care

Practical tips for dealing with cancer patients plus ways to help the caretaker and the family. Include emotional support as well as physical tasks and activities.

0 comments    life advice family
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Connemara-The Home of Carl Sandburg

The home of Poet and Abraham Lincon biographer Carl Sandburg was placed on the National Register of Historic Sites about 30 years ago. Originally the home of a Captain Smyth, founder of Balfour Mills now a...

6 comments    home music walking
Do you 'really' know the person you are leaving your child with?58

Is Your Child In Good Hands?

I really believe that most parents do a great job at raising their children and they all want the very best for them: the college we never had, the higher salaries we don’t have, the better station in life,...

0 comments    advice family how to
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Indulge Yourself with Homemade Spa Treatments

mike warren @ http://www.everystockphoto.com/photo.php?imageId=812283 Pampering yourself needn’t be expensive or harmful to the environment. There are some simple household solutions to fancy spa treatments...

0 comments    massage homemade olive oil
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How to Consider Caring for Someone with Alzheimer’s

This article was written to help you decide rather or not to care for a loved one in the home or not. This article is not intended to offend anyone. Just intended to make you aware of the facts surrounding...

0 comments    home care alzheimer's
I want ALL the candy!56

Mom On the Auction Block

A mother’s love Nurtured a lifetime She’s old now Old and in the way     Too needy for your taste You’re already a parent Now parenting her This white haired problem child   So many dreams...

37 comments    family poetry poem
Statue entitled "The White Slave" Sculptor-Abastenia St Leger Eberle 1913  68

Forgotten - Missing Children

"While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about." Angela Schwindt As Americans we tend to feel a little comfortable reading a story of thousands of children...

7 comments    advice family education
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Parenting a Parent

There are many of us. Children of aging parents. My situation is a bit unique, however. My mother is 82. My father died at the age of 61. I am the youngest of 4 children. I am 46. I have 4 children, ages 20,...

0 comments    parenting bipolar aging parents
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