It’s Thanksgiving morning, and your kids are bored.  Although it’s an afternoon filled with family, friends, eating, and talking, the morning most likely is filled with peeling, chopping, baking, boiling, table setting, and cleaning.  While the kids may want to help with this list of to-dos, they are bound to want alternate entertainment. Anything with [...]

It’s that wonderful time of year again- time to be thankful for all of our precious blessings and time to eat turkey and all the trimmings with those we love. No matter how you celebrate Thanksgiving this year, it is important that it provides you the opportunity to take pause, look around  and show gratitude [...]

Children are such an important part of our world. It is fitting, therefore, that there is a holiday set aside to honor and celebrate the little ones in our lives. But here is where it gets confusing. There is not just one Children’s Day annually, but actually there are a number that are observed throughout [...]

My grandfather was a World War II veteran who used to recount stories about what it was like living back in war time. While he never talked about anything grisly or disturbing to his granddaughters, I got a good idea of what it must have been like to be living in those turbulent years. On [...]