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Spruce Up Your Fitness Routines

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We’re having a garage sale this weekend. We’re cleaning out all the clothes that no longer fit my daughter and we’re putting out for sale everything from shoes to pants to dresses and more. We’re cleaning out cupboards in the kitchen too and selling a dish set that we never use and much more. You can do more to clean up your fitness act than just cleaning out the closets. Let’s talk about how we can give our fitness routines a spring/summer spruce and get rid of the parts of your routine that aren’t doing it for you anymore. How … Continue reading →

End of January Fitness Check Up

It’s the end of January – yes, I know, already. I promised you at the end of last month that I would be making some changes to the end of the month fitness goal check ups and this is our first edition of a new check up method. We’ll see how it goes, of course, I’m always open to your ideas and your suggestions – feel free to drop me a private message here at families.com or in the suggestion box I’ll be posting on our forums. So let’s get to it. Fitness Check Up Let’s talk about our resolutions. … Continue reading →

How Are Your New Year’s Resolutions Going?

It is the end of the month and time to look at how your resolutions are going. How long did you last? Are you still going strong? Did you find out that you set too many resolutions at once? Is there something wrong with how you planned on achieving your goals? The end of the month is a great time to pick yourself back up and to start planning and preparing again. Here are some tips to help you be successful. 1) First congratulate yourself on the areas that you were successful in. No success is too small. If you … Continue reading →

New Year’s Resolutions: Evaluating Your New Budget

It is the end of the month, and time to evaluate your budget. Did you manage to stick to your budget? Were there areas that needed some adjusting? Is there a category that you went way over the amount you had planned? If you really want to stick to your New Year’s Resolution of sticking to a budget, sitting down now and tweaking the budget is really the key to be successful. Here are five things to consider as you tweak your budget. 1) Are there specific areas that you underestimated the cost of the category? Many people struggle with … Continue reading →

10 Ways to Help You Succeed in Your Resolutions to Get Fit

Our lives are a series of choices that we make from the good to the bad. Everything is about choice. We tell our daughter to make good choices and we strive to make good choices for ourselves. When we make resolutions, we are resolving to make positive choices. The problem is, too often we get tied up in how to make those choices work for us. It’s easy to say we’re going to make resolution to get fitter. It’s easy to say we’re going to work out in the morning. It’s harder to deliver on what we say. So you … Continue reading →

It’s Time to Quit: Let’s Get Together

Are you a smoker? Do you want to quit? I know that may sound like a stupid question because I don’t know many smokers who don’t want to quit, but they avoid it because honestly it seems impossible. Who wants to go through the jitters, the frustration and the pacing? I’ve tried quitting before, in fact, just a couple of months ago, I made another attempt at quitting and actually made it a few weeks, but that’s not enough – what I need to do is to quit all together. I need to be a non-smoker. Not a former smoker. … Continue reading →

Stick to ‘Em! How You and Your Pet Can Keep Your 2007 Resolutions

Ah, the New Year. Fresh starts, new beginnings, and resolutions. What’s yours? Lose weight? Get organized? Spend more time with your loved ones? With the second week of the New Year drawing to a close and the third week about to begin, how are those resolutions shaping up? Are you sticking to them? If the answer is, “No,” or “Just barely,” take heart. This is about the time enthusiasm starts to wane (if it hasn’t died completely already), Real Life returns with all of its demands, and it’s very easy to find ways not to accomplish your goals. But never … Continue reading →

5 New Year’s Resolutions Parents Dream About

Every year there are certain resolutions that I would really like to make but then reality hits and I realize that they would be impossible to keep. So here are my top five New Year’s resolutions that I will only achieve in my dreams. 1. My house will always be clean. Let’s face it if you have kids your house will at some point look like a tornado swept through, unless of course you are really lucky. My kids are still at the dump and grab stage – dump the whole toy box then grab what you want. Even if … Continue reading →

Resolving to Exercise & Eat Right

Yes, it’s the day after New Year’s and for many of us that means heading back to work and the regular day-to-day activities that may have slipped over the last couple of weeks of the year. That means taking along your new year’s resolutions and putting them into practice as you get the kids back off to school, you return to work and other activities begin again. Consider the Following Ladies, consider the following as you try to blend your new resolutions in with your regular activities and you begin to change your shopping and activity habits – a new … Continue reading →

Reflections on Homeschooling

As many people do, I try hard to reevaluate where I’m at during these first few weeks in January. I don’t like to set resolutions, but I like to think hard about what I’ve accomplished, what I didn’t accomplish and where we go from here. I’m sure many of you are doing the same thing so I thought I’d share some thoughts. The Importance of a “Big Picture” Mentality It is so easy to focus on what we have not accomplished. Let’s see. . .with 5 kids under the age of 7 my house is almost never fully and completely … Continue reading →