Carnival of Family Life ~ Snowman edition

Car­ni­val of Fam­ily Life — Snow­man edition

Wel­come to the Snow­man edi­tion of the Car­ni­val of Fam­ily Life.  My thanks to Col­lo­quium for allow­ing me the honor of host­ing this week’s carnival.

Edu­ca­tion

Shay presents Core Strength posted at The Life With­out School Com­mu­nity Blog.

Melitsa presents Over­looked cre­ative toy posted at Play-Activities.com.

Fam­ily Cook­ing & Recipes

Annette Berlin presents Oven-Baked Grilled Cheese Sand­wich posted at Craft Stew. Annette says that this oven-baked sand­wich tastes just like it was grilled in a fry­ing pan.

Joanne presents Break­fast posted at Fun Easy Recipes For Kids.

Hap­py­Cam­pers presents Gifts To Make: Choco­late Lol­lipops posted at Reese’s View Of The World.

Aahz presents Live Blog­ging Thanks­giv­ing 2008 at The Cav­erns posted at Phi­laah­zo­phy, explain­ing that “this was the first year I’d ever cooked any­thing for Thanks­giv­ing. That’s why my 12-year-old daugh­ter Zaira and I live blogged the event.”

GrrlSci­en­tist presents America’s Food Avail­abil­ity Cri­sis posted at Liv­ing the Sci­en­tific Life, opin­ing that “One thing the Thanks­giv­ing hol­i­day has made clear is that Amer­ica, the land of plenty where hol­i­day overeat­ing is cel­e­brated as a social good, is suf­fer­ing from a food avail­abil­ity crisis.”

Helene Zemel presents Turkey Stuff­ing with Cin­na­mon Good­ness posted at Health Plans Plus, offer­ing “a deli­cious poul­try stuff­ing recipe packed with cin­na­mon good­ness for your hol­i­day table … or any time! Cin­na­mon has been proven to assist with metab­o­liz­ing glu­cose. The recipe can also be made into a deli­cious bread pudding.”

Fam­ily Crafts and Activities

Zaira presents Thanks­giv­ing For 2: A Live Blog Post From Start To Fin­ish posted at But­ter­fly Diaries, a “live blog post” from a 12-year-old girl about her first Thanks­giv­ing with her father.

How­ToMe presents How To Sew a Sim­ple Purse, Tote or Bag posted at How­ToMe.

Fam­ily Fiction

Jenn presents The Sen­tence posted at Mixed Metaphor.net, a fic­tional story in which two moth­ers expe­ri­ence a com­mon reac­tion to a tragedy that impacts both of their lives.

Fam­ily Finance

Insur­ance Tool­box presents Types of Insur­ance Poli­cies That You Shouldn’t Buy posted at Insur­ance Tool­box.

Polly Poor­house presents Uni­ver­sity Resources for Kids posted at Eco­nomic Crunch. “Activ­i­ties for kids don’t have to be expen­sive,” Polly writs. “See what your local uni­ver­sity has to offer.”

Becca Glouzstein presents How to teach your kids about abun­dance while liv­ing fru­gally posted at Inspi­ra­tion for Mothers.com.

Ray­mond presents The Best Christ­mas Credit Cards For Hol­i­day Shop­ping posted at Money Blue Book.

Ray­mond presents Credit Card Offers For Peo­ple With Bad Credit Or Poor Credit His­tory posted at Money Blue Book.

Sil­i­con Val­ley Blog­ger presents Toys R Us Coupons and Age Dis­crim­i­na­tion posted at The Digerati Life, say­ing, “Is there such a thing as “coupon discrimination”?”

freefrom­broke presents Never Mind A New Eco­nomic Stim­u­lus Pack­age — Save Your­self! posted at Free From Broke, say­ing, “Many are hop­ing the gov’t will help bail out their finan­cial prob­lems. Don’t be one of them! Take con­trol of your own finances.”

The Smarter Wal­let presents Fin­ish Your Hol­i­day Shop­ping Early And Save Money! posted at The Smarter Wal­let.

Fam­ily Health and Wellness

Shen-Li Lee presents Plas­tic Baby Bot­tles Banned! posted at Baby­li­cious.

Chief Fam­ily Offi­cer presents When to replace a car seat that’s been in an acci­dent posted at Chief Fam­ily Offi­cer.

Don­ald Latumahina presents Tip for a Healthy Heart – Drink Wine posted at Life Opti­mizer.

Megan Bayliss presents Pros­per­ity Abun­dance in child pro­tec­tion posted at imag­inif. “Com­mu­nity focused child pro­tec­tion is a pre­ven­ta­tive and enrich­ing activ­ity in which all of us can engage daily,” accord­ing to Megan. “When the term ‘child pro­tec­tion’ is turned on its head, it sim­ply means ‘the pro­tec­tion of children.’”

Matthew presents Advance Med­ical Direc­tives posted at Fast Med­ical Infor­ma­tion, a begin­ning primer on advance direc­tives which define the spe­cific treat­ment pref­er­ences of an incom­pac­i­tated patient, as well as des­ig­nate a decision-maker who will speak in the event that the patient is unable to enun­ci­ate his/her own desires. Why do you need such a doc­u­ment? Read more about what could hap­pen to your fam­ily at Robert’s Legacy.

Fam­ily Pets

GP presents Prac­tice With­out Antic­i­pa­tion « Manely Mon­tana posted at Manely Mon­tana. Life with horses pro­vides life lessons.

GrrlSci­en­tist presents How To Stuff Your Par­rot on Thanks­giv­ing posted at Liv­ing the Sci­en­tific Life, an amus­ing essay again mak­ing the rounds.

Matt M presents Giv­away — Groom­ing Essen­tials Kit posted at The Pet Haven.

Fam­ily Rela­tion­ships and Self-Improvement

Hope­ful Spirit presents Reflec­tions on Hol­i­days and Fam­lies: A Test of Char­ac­ter posted at On the Hori­zon.

Donetta presents On Fam­ily Rela­tion­ships and Self-Improvement posted at A Life Uncom­mon.

Mama Bear presents Christ­mas Tra­di­tions posted at I’ve Got a Lit­tle Space to Fill.

Toni presents And all I wanted to do was put my feet up posted at Wifely Steps, say­ing, “My hus­band nour­ishes me with more than just food. ”

Terri Mauro presents High School Musi­cal and the down­side of dream­ing posted at About Par­ent­ing Spe­cial Needs.

Super Saver presents Thank­ful for my Fam­ily posted at My Wealth Builder.

Fam­ily Spirituality/Belief/Worship

Allen Scott presents Be Thank­ful posted at A View from the Nest. “It’s easy to be thank­ful for the good things,” accord­ing to Allen. “A life of rich ful­fill­ment comes to those who are also thank­ful for the setbacks.”

Donetta presents Before and After Por­trait posted at A Life Uncom­mon. “It is time to believe in your­self,” Donetta tells us.

Julie Heath presents Teach­ing Kids The Mean­ing of Christ­mas posted at More4kids.

Karen Shan­ley presents Run­ning for the Train posted at Karen Shan­ley.

Fam­ily Travel

Mar­i­lyn Ter­rell presents Under­wa­ter Legoland posted at Intel­li­gent Travel, about a trip to Sea Life, the under­wa­ter theme park at Legoland.

Short­cut Sleuth presents Sur­viv­ing Fam­ily Road Trips posted at Short­cut Sleuth, offer­ing a few point­ers to make your next fam­ily trip a bit smoother by keep­ing the kids entertained.

Par­ent­ing Tips and Advice

Kevin presents Pos­i­tive Role Mod­els and Chil­dren posted at More4kids.

Emma presents Seven Things I Would Never Say To a New Mom posted at Baby-Log.

Kristina Kharlova presents Boston Com­mon Christ­mas Tree posted at Boston Mama.

Melitsa presents Are you an effec­tive coun­ter­weight? posted at Play-Activities.com.

Thank you all for par­tic­i­pat­ing in and sup­port­ing this edi­tion of the Carnival!

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Photo Cred­its (in order of appearance):

1. photo credit: pshab
2. photo credit: tom.basham
3. photo credit: g.naharro
4. photo credit: Tesla314
5. photo credit: neatlysliced
6. photo credit: ian­qui
7. photo credit: Rose Davies
8. photo credit: jcarwash31
9. photo credit: KalleKarl
10. photo credit: namei­nuse

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