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Inexpensive Ways to Countdown to Christmas

My 8-year-old adores her Snoopy countdown to Christmas calendar… and her wooden Advent calendar… and her chocolate-filled Advent calendar… and well, you get the idea.  My kid is obsessed with counting down to December 25th. While I enjoy seeing her excitement as she tears open the doors to her various candy-filled chronicles, Advent calendars don’t come cheap.  Neither do secular versions featuring syndicated cartoon characters. Fortunately, there are ways you can celebrate the coming of Christmas without going broke.  For example: Paper Chains:  Kids can craft a countdown to Christmas chain to help them visualize how many days until Santa’s … Continue reading →

Let The Little Rocket Company Launch Your Genealogy Into Space

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Most genealogists spend a large part of their lives working on their genealogy research. The hope is that your family tree, family photos, and family history will outlast you, and be passed down to your descendants. One way to do that is with a time capsule. Or, you can let The Little Rocket Company launch your family memories into space! People have been making their own genealogy time capsules for quite some time now. In order to do this, you need to gather together some of your important research. Things like a copy of your pedigree, or your family tree, … Continue reading →

Remembering the Fun

Whether your photographic storage solution involves Apple’s iPhoto program, like this writer, neatly organized photo albums or even a gigantic canvas beach bag filled to the brim with packages of pictures like my mother once employed, you should take the time to sit down as a family, flip through some photos and reminisce about the fun times, cool sights and goofy moments you experienced together. My family had a pretty exciting 2006. We traveled great distances three times: The Gulf Coast of Florida, Maine, and France. We also made shorter trips to New York City, Philadelphia and a couple of … Continue reading →

Are Your Kids Home Today?

Many schools across the United States are closed today in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. It is now a national holiday, established to honor the memory of the Civil Rights leader. If your children have the day off, you might find it interesting to share the history of this day with them to teach them why it is celebrated. Did you know that it took 15 years for this holiday to become official? It was proposed repeatedly until finally being confirmed as a holiday by President Ronald Reagan in 1983. The original date it that was proposed was … Continue reading →