Genealogy: How to Research Your Ancestors and Fill in Your Family TreeWant to know who is in your family tree, but doing genealogy feels a bit overwhelming? If it does, you're not alone. I'll admit that genealogy felt like learning a foreign language to me and seemed like a hobby meant for my older relatives. To be honest, I didn't really…
Power of Story Week 4: Discovering Where I Come FromI was 18 and moved away from home for the very first time; a whole state away. I wasn't worried, though; I was brave. Or so I thought. After the excitement of the first few nights wore off, I was ready to go home and sleep in my own bed.…
Power of Story Week 3: Stories From When I Was LittleFor years these words scared me to death, “What was it like when you were little, mom?” I would feel silly, tongue tied and put on the spot when my children asked me about my childhood. I wanted to tell them sweet, endearing stories from my life when they…
Connectedness: 3 Ways to Celebrate and Remember Your Grandparentsrelationships • me • relationships • lifestyle
Grandparents—Today, the 10-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, is probably a somber day for many of us. It is a day mostly of remembrance, of thinking about victims we may have known or where we were when we heard about the attacks on the twin towers and the Pentagon.…
10 Tips for Nourishing Servicemy world • Mom It Forward Mondays
This week's Season of Service challenge involves serving through nourishing. This denotes either giving people, plants, or animals the substances they require to live, grow, or remain fit and healthy, encouraging or strengthening a feeling or idea, or helping something to grow or develop. 10 Tips to Nourish People Things…
