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Ideas for Organizing a Family Reunion

Gather the family for some good old-fashioned fun and food with a family reunion. Organize a successful family reunion by asking for help. Don’t try to play the role of “superwoman,” or you’ll surely burn out midway through planning. Put a call out to family members to see who’d like to help, and how they’d like to contribute to the planning. Select at least six to eight people to help get the planning process moving along.

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Planning & Packing Quick, Healthy Kid Lunches

With the kids back in school, the biggest benefit to busy parents is settling back into a nice routine. However, school also brings the dilemma of packing daily lunches. The morning rush is difficult enough, with showers, breakfast and last-minute scrambling to find the soccer cleats and get kids out the door and yourself off to work. It can be tempting to throw in convenient but poor nutritional choices, just because theyre fast.

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I’ve Reached the Holy Grail…Now What?

I have finally reached the holy grail of motherhood: both of my kids are in school all day, in the same place. No more dropping one at eight am and one at nine am, no more twelve oclock preschool pickups and three oclock grade school pickups. No more getting involved at two different schools, no more trying to get all of my errands and work done in the three hours that my little one was in preschool. I am now, officially, a MWTH.