Though summer is prime time for wedding season, winter weddings have the potential to make the most of the beautiful scenery and seasonal charm. Crisp, white snow falling on pine trees and rooftops create a…
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Year-Round Christmas Tree Decorations
When spring comes around, it not only means warmer temperatures, trees and flowers budding, and spending more time outdoors, but it means tackling all that spring cleaning that’s been building up all winter. At the…
Make Next Christmas a Bit Easier
There’s something unusual in the air whenever the Christmas season begins to loom, but it isn’t the caroling singers, the blinking decorative lights or even the smell of hundreds of cookies baking. No, that special…
Healthy food, drink choices essential in reducing childhood obesity
The increasing number of overweight and obese children in the United States has been of rising concern over the years. By the year 2010, a third of the children in the United States were considered…
Jazz: What a Wonderful World!
Hello, Dolly! April is officially Jazz Appreciation Month as proclaimed by the United States Conference of Mayors adopted in 2012. However, the Smithsonian Museum’s National Museum of American History notes that the 10th anniversary of Jazz Appreciation…
Eye Safety Tips
A single eye injury can carry a lifetime of consequences, even if it doesn’t lead to blindness. Impaired vision of any kind can make many aspects of daily life much more complicated, and depending on…
10 Party Favors That Won’t Break the Bank
When Did This Tradition Start? In the past, children were invited to birthday parties with the expectation that they were honored to be invited, would bring a gift for the birthday boy or girl, enjoy a slice…
Tackling your spring cleaning
How often have you vowed to start on your annual spring cleaning “as soon as the winter holidays are over,” only to realize that not only have Valentine’s Day and St. Patrick’s Day passed, Easter is just…
5 gifts you can give your daughter “just because”
A father is one of the most important people in his daughter’s life, and she needs a lot more from him than the occasional material gift. However, giving your daughter special gifts is still an…
Beyond Chocolate Bunnies: Easter Gift Ideas for Your Kids
Spring’s almost here, and that means Easter is fast approaching! Dying eggs and decorating pretty baskets with buttons and bows is always fun for the whole family. Waking up to find huge chocolate bunnies and…