Free printable Catholic liturgical calendars with 2015 holidays and holy days - Grand Rapids Holidays | Examiner.com

Liturgical calendars guide the Catholic and Orthodox Christian church year. They show when holidays, holy days, saints' feast days, movable feasts and seasons occur. Parents and teachers can use them plan devotions and activities, Homeschool families can follow the calendar at home. Here are free printable Catholic liturgical calendars and church season activities.Free printable Catholic liturgical calendars with 2015 holidays and holy days 

   

Free meals for veterans and US Marine Corps Birthday November 10-13, 2014

Happy 239th Birthday to you, United States Marine Corps. November 10, 2014 celebrates almost 2.5 centuries of USMC service, reported Business 2 Community on the USMC birthday. Many restaurants are offering free meals on Veterans Day, November 11 for vets and active military. Some freebies start on November 10.  Free meals for veterans and US Marine Corps Birthday November 10-13 - Grand Rapids Holidays | Examiner.com

Save big money on shopping with Meijer mPerks

Michiganders, if you're not using Meijer mPerks already, I just have one question--WHY NOT?? Don't know what mPerks is? Well, you know Meijer superstores, right? Meijer is the quintessential budget store and pre-dates Walmart, dollar stores, discount stores by about 50 years. You can't live in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois or Kentucky and not have heard of Meijer. You have Meijer stores there too. It's one thing you miss about shopping on vacation in places that don't have Meijer.Save big money on shopping with Meijer mPerks - Grand Rapids Holidays | Examiner.com

 

Free Printable Personal Organizers, Planners and Calendars

Do your prefer good old paper and pencil planners to smartphone calendars? Maybe you bought an expensive personal organizer, like a Franklin Planner. Good for organizing, if you actually use it. And pretty expensive when you have to buy refill pages every year. So here are Free Printable Personal Organizers, Planners and Calendars

How I Lost 100 Pounds With Fat Burning Food Swaps

I was a chubby child, normal weight in high school and thin in young adulthood. I weighed 110 pounds when I got married and 117 pounds when I went in for my first prenatal check up with my first child. Through four children, I gained 22 pounds per pregnancy, lost it immediately after childbirth and stayed at normal weight. Then, after giving birth to two stillborn babies in 2000 and 2004, taking the antidepressant Paxil and starting early menopause at age 40, I doubled my weight. Right is me in 2011 when I began dieting, though truthfully, not very seriously.



Then I got serious late in 2012.  I learned a lot about weight loss and body reshaping. As I learned new things, I put them into practice. Then the weight started coming off in earnest. I have lost 100 pounds, dropped from size 20 to 3 and shaved off 14 BMI points.How? Several ways: the most important being a total eating makeover. I didn't stop eating or cut out major food groups. That's crash dieting and not healthy. I didn't have surgery or take drugs. Those are temporary band-aids, and don't produce the real changes needed for weight loss.



Literally, I ate my way to thin by swapping less healthy, fat-building foods for healthy fat-busting foodFat-Burning Foods I Ate to Lose 100 Pounds

alternatives and natural herbal supplements. Here are my top 26 fat burning weight loss food from A to Z.

Free Printable Calendars and Date Planner Refill Pages

Do your prefer good old paper and pencil planners to smartphone calendars? Maybe you bought an expensive personal organizer. Great, but now you have to buy refill pages every year. Further expense. You can buy an undated day planner, but then you never know what the date is. How about free printable planner pages to solve your dilemma? Choose size, style and page orientation that you need to fit your personal planner. Select year-at-a-glance, monthly calendar planner pages and weekly planner pages with plenty of room to fill in events under each day. Print the planner pages from your home computer. Free printable 2014 and 2015 calendars and planner pages available.

I've shown one free printable personal organizer page in the image above. Times of the day are listed vertically and days are listed horizontally. This free printable schedule is extremely useful for teachers and homeschoolers. Fill in blocks with lesson times, special activities (gym, art, music class, assemblies, etc.) field trips, etc. Parents and homeschoolers can use to organize meetings, music lessons, dance lessons, sports, doctor appointments, chores, etc. Print off several of these weekly charts, one for each member of the family. Read on for free printable personal planner pages and calendars.

For more free printable home planners and calendars visit me at onlinewriterwahm.blogspot.com. Homeschoolers and teachers, www.freeprintablelessonplans.blogspot.com.

100+ Free (or Dirt Cheap) Educational Summer Field Trips for Families

My husband and I homeschooled four children in a single-wide mobile home, living on one income. What we don't know about living minimalist and frugal, isn't worth knowing. Here's our budget list of 100+ free or dirt cheap educational summer field trips 100+ Free (or Dirt Cheap) Educational Summer Field Trips for Families

Making Online Content Pay with Non-Scam, Spam-Free Promotion

 I've been freelance writing online successfully since 2006. By successfully, I mean my online content upfront payments and residuals earn sustainable income that allowed me to pay off $22,000 in debt and quit my full-time substitute teaching job. Readers interacting with our content (reading, sharing, commenting) is what earns money. I'm frequently asked how I attract said readers and ergo, page views? Short answer: I share, blog and network. Okay, but how do you promote content ethically? Pertinent question. I promote content using approved sources to make online content pay. Making Online Content Pay: Non-Scam, Spam-Free Ways to Promote, Share

Free Father's Day Gifts, Cheap/Free Activities to Do With Dad

Looking for low-cost Father's Day gifts? (Hint--it's the third Sunday in June, don't forget!) Why not do something with dad instead of buy him something? Here are 26 free Father's Day activities from A-Z. Don't limit it to just dad. Remember all special men this holiday--brothers, uncles, grandfathers, step-fathers, Godfathers, priests, rabbis, ministers, scout leaders, teachers, friends.  Free Father's Day Gifts, Do-With-Dad Activities from A-Z

Budget Graduation Party Open House Shopping Guide With Recipes

Hosting a graduation open house and clueless where to start? Use this party organizer guide to throw the perfect backyard bash for your graduate! Here are recipes plus shopping lists for groceries, supplies, decorations and equipment. Being the perennial penny pincher, I've listed cheaper and DIY alternatives--to save you money and hassle! Budget Graduation Party Open House Shopping Guide With Recipes

Organize a Graduation Open House, Cheap, Easy Recipes and Tips

May and June mean graduation open houses. Are you hosting an open house? Here are some tips for planning an easy, inexpensive, festive buffet. This party planning guide includes recipes, serving and cleanup tips, crowd control and guest organization. If you are Type A OCD ADD DIY parent like me, you manage the whole show and not make time to visit. Here are planning, purchasing, preparation, serving and clean-up tips for a perfect open house. Graduation Party Food Tips: Plan a Festive Graduation Party Buffet Without Going Broke or Crazy!

Dad, You Need to Help Mom Avoid Burnout--Proactive Parenting, Happy Relationships

Let's talk mom burnout. It's a dark depression that can incapacitate mothers and leave them super vulnerable and fragile. We usually try to hide it from kids, spouse, friends, family, ourselves. We're terrified lest anyone see and think we're the rotten parents we believe we are. From 25 years parenting four children, let me assure you--mom-burnout is normal and manageable. But dads, we need your help.Parenting Tips--Hows Dads Help Prevent Mom Burnout 

Free Printable Cinco de Mayo Coloring Pages and Crafts

Like so many borrowed U.S.  holidays, Cinco de Mayo is pretty schmaltzy.  But that shouldn't stop us celebrating Mexican history and culture. Making traditional crafts, singing songs, eating foods, brings multiculturalism to the classroom. And that's all good. Here are printable Cinco de Mayo coloring pages, Mexican arts and crafts and Spanish-themed activities for kids. Latino and non-Latino will enjoy a fiesta of fun! I've tried to keep the kitsch to a minimum.  Free Printable Cinco de Mayo Coloring Pages and Crafts

Mother's Day Gifts for SAHM or WAHM Moms

Is Mother's Day gift-giving different for SAHM (stay at home moms) or WAHM (work at home moms) than for moms who go to job? I think it is a little. WAHMs long to get out more, while job  moms look forward to being home with the family. Not better worse--just different. Granted, Mother's Day gifts should be individual for every woman. But I was a SAHM and WAHM. I can speak to the unique needs that we have.  Here's a guide to get us just what we what and need for Mother's Day. Mother's Day Gifts for the SAHM Mom

Freelancer Tip: Too Many Keyword, Links Hurts SEO

Linkbacks and tags on articles and posts draw search traffic. Links create channels or magnets that attract views, clicks, interaction. That's good for page views. BUT, too many links and overused keywords have the reverse affect. They hurt search indexing. Maybe not at first. Initially, they'll draw lots of traffic. But in the long run, when Google catches onto the keyword stuffing and overlinking, they'll have adverse effect. So get your Google juice, making links of keywords. But don't overdo it. Read on for tutorials on how to balance that.   Writing for the Web 101 Too Many Keywords, Links Hurts SEO - News - Bubblews

Blogging Tips, Work While the Interent is Cooperative

 For the past few days, I have doing blog PMs (preventative maintenance). I'm "spring cleaning" my 55 niche blogs (an Amazonian task--I'd say Herculean, but being a gal, I want to show solidarity with the ladies.) I've been writing online since 2005 and blogs are my milch cows. So I keep them up. The internet has been slow and sites have been crashing since Windows 8.1 updated. So here's how I multitask when the computer is slow.  Blogging Tips, Take While Google Blogger is Giving

Keep Kids Busy with Printable Easter Egg Patterns, Psanky Stencils

Need a project to keep kids busy (and out of your hair)? I don't know about you but late winter early spring is s super busy time for me, with Easter, Lent, volunteer work and work at home projects. It was busy when I was homeschooling four kids, too.



How about letting them make Easter crafts? Easter egg coloring is an art form of its own. There are traditional Easter patterns, but one style defines the art: Ukrainian psanky eggs. Many Eastern European countries have similar egg decorating traditions. These ancient crafts create mosaic patterns in classic designs. If you'd like to try your hand at making psanky eggs for Easter, here are free online patterns, printables and designs. I've included printable traditional easter egg stencils. Free Printable Easter Egg Patterns, Psanky Stencils

Caring for Elderly, Acknowledge Burnout

I don't do sadness or burnout well. My MO is to ignore or displace. It scares me. So I don't let myself experience it and move on. Our oldest daughter flew up from Louisiana for a our youngest daughter's 16th birthday. Our oldest son came in from Detroit with his girlfriend. It was his b-day too, but he came to see his sister. And my husband and I had to take care of elderly mother in law. We got burned out. My advice to couples caring for a difficult relative is to stay connected. Don't let your caregiving overwhelm you. I Think I Need to Acknowledge Burnout 

Copyright Infringement Big Problem as Facebook Ad Fatkini Photo Theft Shows

Blogger Rachel Cateyes is about celebrating fat. The 300 pound woman proudly debuted her two-piece "fatkini" on her blog. That image was stolen by Facebook spam ads for Venus Index and Venus Factor diets. It highlights the big picture with copyright infringement, pun intended. Here's more on how plagiarism and online theft works.

Facebook Ad Steals Fat Blogger Photo Underscores Plagiarism Big Picture

How I Freelance and Manage 55 Blogs

I've been freelance writing online since 2005. I also blog my articles on the 55 blogs I created and maintain, one being this. When I say that I have 55 blogs, someone invariably asks "Pray tell how do you keep up???" Fair question.



1) Freelancing is my job. I write 30-40 articles a week --shorter on sites like Bubblews, longer on paid content sites. Read on for the rest. Writing for the Web 101 How I Manage 55 Blogs

In Favor of Public Breastfeeding, Thank You Mayim Bialik

Mayim Bialek--funny, Jewish, neurosurgeon, Big Bang Theory, Blossom, vegan, naturalista--what's not to love? But that's not my favorite thing. Mayim publicly breastfed her two boys and practiced child-led weaning. She spoke out on HuffPo advocating public breastfeeding. On her Kveller blog, she writes about organic parenting. As a Ph.D, she shares brain and learning helps for parents. Let's hear it for multitasking, nursing moms who love their kids enough to risk public censure.Thank You, Mayim Bialik, for Breastfeeding Voice - News - Bubblews

Make Writing Multitask with Double Duty Articles

I write for several sites and have learned to make writing multitask. Meaning, I write one article and reuse on several sites simultaneously. Here's how to legally and sensibly do that. Read on Writing for the Web 101 Make Writing Multitask With Quadruple Duty Articles 

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Comment on Bubblews Posts Not Profiles If You Want Interaction

I've read complaints questioning generic article comments. Well, here's my $64,000 question: what about those generic profile comments? I don't mean the initial introductory comment. I don't mean personal, specific comments or questions. In lieu of email, that's the only place to discuss non-article-specific stuff.   Quit the Profile Graffiti and Visit Bubblews Posts If You Want Interaction 

How to Work, Earn Money While You're Sick

I've been writing online since 2005, full time since 2010. I've written for lots of sites and earned enough to quit my subbing job. Like a good IPA beer, each writing site has its merits. What I like about Bubblews is that it's good for those slow days. Like when I don't feel good. I'm tired, achy and fluish. Our temps have jumped about 20-25 degrees (still under freezing). And I'm just superstitious enough to think it woke up the bad germs from their winter sleep. And Bubblews enables me to earn money with "light duty" work.  Writing on Bubblews is Good Sick Day Work

Keeping the Lines of Communication Open Anytime, Anywhere

Our oldest two kids have been out of the house for 5 and 3 years respectively. I don't have texting, so they're forced to communicate the old-fashioned way--smoke signals. I kid, no we have to talk. Sometimes we Facetime, and sometimes just via phone.



Our family is super close-knit. Not weird or inbred or anything. Well, I tell a lie, we are a little outside the box, but in a fun, eccentric way. Just not weird like that. Anyway, I always say the kids channel each other. Because whenever one out of the house kid calls, the other OOTH kid will too. Sometimes at the same time. They know I am available to them anytime, anywhere. I may have to call back, but unless it's unavoidable I will stop what I am doing to talk. Keeping the lines of communication open is my most important mom-job. My Oldest Two Kids Always Call on the Same Day

Mini Workouts for Work at Home Writers, Serious and Silly Version

One of the biggest occupational hazards for online work at home writers isn't writer's block or writer's cramp--it's writer's spread (as in, well, you know, around the middle and bottom?) I've been a WAHM for eight years. And I had the computer belly and desk chair butt to prove it. But not anymore.

  Mini Workouts for Work at Home Writers, the Silly Version and the Serious Mini Workout Post

Drugfree Arthritis Remedies for Computer Workers

 At 48, I was diagnosed with arthritis in my shoulder. It's spread to the other shoulder and neck. Working all day at a keyboard does not make arthritics any easier to deal with. So how do I cope?



--Lose weight. I have lost over 90 pounds. It hasn't made the pain disappear. In fact, some of my chronic pain is getting worse, but that's from age and sitting a computer every day. But carrying less weight makes exercise easier. I'm more limber, agile and coordinated.  Read on Drugfree Arthritis Remedies for Computer Workers

Whats to do to Get Featured on Bubblews Front Page

I write for Bubblews and posts that hit the front page go platinum. But short answer to how to get there, I don't know just yet. I think I'm latching on though. For most of my time on Bubblews, I interacted on posts from my notifications feed. Then I started seeing high likes and page views on some and found they'd been on Bubblews front page. Having never been featured, I wondered how to achieve that. I analyzed the articles to see what mine might lack or what they had in common. I noticed some things. Read on   Whats a Gal Got to do to Get Featured on Bubblews Front Page?