One way to achieve this goal is to focus on living a healthy lifestyle as a family. Take some time to understand what changes you can make that will have the greatest impact and deliver life-altering results for you and your loved ones. What you do or don’t do each day matters and will influence how you feel and your appearance.
Stay Active & Get Outside If you want to live a healthy lifestyle as a family, then you must remain active. Get outside andexercise regularly as a group. Find activities you can all enjoy and do together that get you moving and your heart rate up. There might be plenty of sports and active hobbies you can do in and around the house or you can consider joining a gym and going there together.
Cook Together Another way you and your family can live a healthy lifestyle is to choose to cook as a group. Prepare meals and snacks together and have fun spending some quality time in the kitchen. Find low sugarhealthy muffin recipes to prepare that will keep your kids full but not harm their diet. Make meals and snacks as a family and then sit down and eat together and talk and share about each other’s days.
Follow A Bedtime Routine Sleep is essential to you to function as a parent and your kids performing well in school and being in good moods. Therefore, it should be a top priority in your household if you want to live a healthier lifestyle. Stick to abedtime routine and try to follow a schedule, so you’re all going to bed and waking up around the same time each day. Your routine at night may include taking baths, reading books, or both. You’ll all wake up happier and ready to seize the day when you get good sleep.
Commit to Less Screen Time You and your family can live a healthy lifestyle by committing toless screen time overall. It’ll be beneficial for your health and neck and eyes and free up time in your schedule to do other activities and hobbies. While technology can be useful for many parts of your life, it can also be quite addicting and take up a lot of your time. You may notice that your kids are not only happier and healthier but that you all have more moments to spend with the family.
Conclusion These are some tips that will help keep you and your family living a healthy lifestyle. You’ll soon be on your way to enjoying each other more and all feeling your best. Take pleasure in the fact that you’re making positive changes that will get your family on the right track to improved health and wellbeing.
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For those who have a less-active dog and are left wondering if the dog is right for you (as you expected playfulness and fun), then there is a solution. Dogs are not born to be lazy. They are energetic animals who love to play. Therefore, somewhere deep down in your dog is their energetic and playful self. Of which, you might want to bring out of them to make them more active. On that note, here are some tips on how to make your lazy dog more active.
Use toys If your dog is avoiding exercise and playfulness on walks or in the house, then you will want to use toys. Toys are there for dogs to be playful as well as healthier. Using a toy like Runball will promote better health for your dog by encouraging them to play and fetch when out on a walk. Taking a toy will engage your dog and enhance their need for play, which will promote better physical health.
Assess your dog’s health Assessing your dog’s health will help you understand if something wrong is causing them to be lazy. There could be a hidden condition that you aren’t aware of, causing them to want to lie down and rest. Before you start to encourage your dog on more walks and runs, assess your dog’s health by talking to a vet.
Try various activities (other than walking) Although a walk is an essential part of a dog’s routine, they might feel more encouraged to participate in other activities. The same routine and route might be the possible reason for your dog being lazy.
Instead, you could try agility. This is an obstacle course-style activity that will train your dog as well as make them more active. If you perform the agility training, it will create a stronger bond between you and your dog, and they will understand that you are in control.
Change their diet Every dog has different nutritional needs and preferences. Thus, trying different foods will help you understand if their diet is making them fatigued and lazy. Ensure that they get plenty of vitamins and minerals, as this will provide them with energy. Vitamins A, D, and E are all essential for a dog’s health and growth. Incorporating calcium-rich foods will also promote bone growth and strength.
Mental stimulation Sometimes, a dog needs mental stimulation before they get up and get active. They might lie around all day because they are not mentally stimulated.
Try playing hide and seek or test their command skills at home so that their brains can become active, which will encourage them to be playful and might even persuade them to go on a walk. Brain training will strengthen their mental state as well as their physical state. It will create a better bond between you and your dog and make them much happier, encouraging them to be more active.
The leaves are starting to turn, and the nip of the fall weather will soon be in the air. Now, the kids are back to school, and Christmas is not far away. It really is a beautiful time of the year that shows the transition of time. With this in mind, here are some things that you can do this fall to get ready for the winter.
Declutter and organize During the summer months, you have probably spent a lot of time outside in the good weather and collected things from day trips and vacations. This is the best time to tidy all of the summer equipment away to be used next year. The patio furniture can be washed and stored in the garage. Summer clothes can be laundered and packed away for the warmer months. Find the winter wools and thick blankets to help keep the chill off your skin. It’s time to pack away the summertime and unpack the winter.
Change furniture If you are thinking about changing the furniture around for the Holidays, you might want to do it sooner rather than later. Ordering your sofas or bigger dining table early so that they arrive plenty of time for the holiday season can help avoid a lot of stress. If you are not planning on changing the existing furniture, you can get it professionally cleaned. This is great if you have a fabric sofa to clean it and give it a new lease of life. Sometimes all our furniture needs is a bit of TLC and some elbow grease to bring it back to life.
Deep clean When the weather is warm, the last thing you want to do is clean the house. We are not saying that you have neglected the house, but it could probably do with an overhaul. While you are decluttering and storing the summer stuff, it is a great time to give everything a good clean. Spending a few days going through the rooms and giving them a good scrub and vacuum can do wonders for your home and health. It will also make sure that the cleaning won’t be as difficult as the winter rolls around.
Service the systems The winter and the colder weather means that your heating and electric systems will be on longer and more often. After not being used as much over the summer, it is always a good idea to have them serviced before the pressure of the winter appears. Servicing the systems will help to ensure that you won’t be hit with sudden system failures that leave you without heat, hot water, and power. If you don’t know much about these systems, it is a good idea to get a professional engineer to look at them. If you have a fireplace, you should get your chimney swept to avoid issues with the chimney. Also, make sure that you have enough fuel for your heating too.
Decorate As the year goes on, you might discover that rooms are getting a bit worn out and need a coat of paint. When you have small kids, you probably feel the need to paint the rooms once a month with the mess they can leave with their little handprints. If you are planning on having family around for the Holidays, giving the place a fresh coat of paint can help you feel better about your home. Even just a quick coat of white paint on the ceiling can help to brighten the room up again.
Prep Holiday food Depending on what holidays you celebrate, you will need to buy different things. But, one thing we can all agree on, no matter what we celebrate, we need to start planning early. Start stocking up the tins and frozen items that you might need in the coming months. It is also a great way to ensure that you have a good food supply for the winter if the weather takes a nasty turn and you can’t get out of the house for a while. So grab those winter meats and canned goods to have at the ready.
Donations The Holiday season normally means that a lot of new stuff comes into our homes, but do we get rid of anything? Having a declutter can mean that we find stuff that is no longer serving us and we don’t need anymore. Maybe some old clothes you don’t like any more would be better off heading to Goodwill. Or maybe you have toys sitting around that the kids don’t play with anymore. Whatever the item, try to give it to charity or sell it, rather than allow it to go to a landfill. And, remember, the Holidays are a time for giving. Even if you feel the need to get rid of something doesn’t mean that someone else won’t love it.
Prep for bad weather We mentioned the bad weather in a previous point, but it is worth discussing it more. The weather has been becoming more unpredictable in recent years, so it is worth your while prepping a bit more than usual. This means clearing out the gutters, adding flood defenses if your home is prone to flooding. It might be a good idea to grab some snow supplies, even if you don’t get snow where you are. As we said, it is getting unpredictable.
Gardening If you are an avid gardener, you will already know that now is the time to start clearing out the garden and getting things ready for the spring. Root vegetables will be ready to harvest soon, and it is a great time for getting prepped for the spring. The flowers that have started to die can be added to the compost heap to be used as part of next spring’s planting. If you don’t know that much about gardening and would like to learn more, there is an abundance of information to teach you the basics.
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, are forever engrained into our hearts. We will never forget the horrific images of the airplanes careening into the Twin Towers. Or hearing the telephone messages of passengers calling their family members and telling them what was happening and they weren’t going to make it out alive. Or listening to someone talk about their loved one who died fighting in the war of terror that ensued after the fact.
September 11th invokes a wide range of emotions. My heart aches for those who lost their loved ones on that day or in the war. But at the same time, it is a day of much joy and happiness. You see, while today marks twenty years since the terrorist attacks, it also marks twenty-two years that JT and I walked down the aisle and became husband and wife.
The highs of knowing that my life has been forever changed by the most wonderful woman in the world, remembering the beautiful ceremony, eating wonderful food, and sharing great memories with friends and family at our wedding. To the lows of know that just two years later, life as we knew it had changed, terrorism was a real threat, and so many people died in the name of preserving the American freedom that we have lived in.
Now twenty years since that horrific day, I find that I have changed. In the years past, while I felt a deep sadness about what happened that day, I still wanted to celebrate our wedding anniversary. I found myself saying, “We were married before this happened, so I am going to celebrate.” But this year, it was different. I could only post things related to the terrorist attacks and the war on terror on my social media. I wanted to post photos of my wife as a countdown to our anniversary, but my heart told me NO. It wasn’t right. Maybe it has to do with the end of the war in Afghanistan and the recent loss of the thirteen soldiers in Afghanistan. Maybe it is the heartache for the people who died on that day truly hit me.
The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the war that followed became so real to me today. After eating lunch at Red Lobster for our anniversary, we went to see the Flags of Valor presentation. Over seven thousand United States flags are placed on Art Hill in Forest Park in Saint Louis, MO. Each flag includes a photograph of a soldier who died fighting in the War on Terror, along with a replica dog tag that gives their name, date of death, and where they died. There are also flags honoring the first responders, police officers, and firefighters who died while helping the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. A panel display includes photographs of each of the people who died on September 11th. Fox News captured this video shows the magnitude of the presentation.
Seeing more than seven thousand flags, each with a photograph and a dog tag of a man or woman who sacrificed their lives so that I can continue to live in freedom. So that terror would not prevail, and that evil has no place in this world. All I can say is, “Thank You!” And we all must say, “We Will Never Forget!:
A flag honoring Vincent G. Danz, New York Police Officer who died at the World Trade Center during the September 11th Terrorist Attacks
Happy Wedding Anniversary to my sweet husband. I feel like we just got married, and now it is 22 years. You love me despite all my flaws. I wonder why did you marry me. I thought I would never get married because I wasn’t shown, good role models. I realized that God is first before everything, and through him, he gave me you. God is good, and I thank him for his grace and mercy.
1 Corinthians 13;4-5 says,
Love is patient. Love is kind. It does not envy. It does not boast. It is not proud. It does not dishonor others. It is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
NIV: New International Version
Marriage is work, and anyone that tells you it’s not is lying to you.
If you are married, there are two steps you can take to freshen your marriage each day.
1. Put God first: Jay and I know that nothing works without God In Jesus Name, so our spiritual life is a priority. Did this happen? No, we made it a priority, and if one of us slips us, we make sure we check each other. A good bible study together is the BibleRecap with Tara Lee Cobble on Youversion Bible app.
2. Communicate: spend time together each day and talk. Life, kids, fur babies, and everything else that encompasses your day can take priority but make sure you both are spending time talking not just about the day but about each other. The time can be as little as 15 minutes, but there’s no set time. Just make it happen.
3. Be each other’s cheerleader: As a husband and wife, there’s no 50/50. It’s 100/100. You both have to go all-in with the relationship.
I am not a marriage expert, and again it seems like we just got married yesterday. However, I can tell you from 22 years of marriage experience that these tips are still part of our communication with each and our love language continues to grow when we do the work.
Honey, I love you, you are my best friend, Happy 22 years!
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Happy Wedding Anniversary to my sweet husband. I feel like we just got married, and now it is 22 years. You love me despite all my flaws. I wonder why did you marry me. I thought I would never get married because I wasn’t shown, good role models. I realized that God is first before everything, and through him, he gave me you. God is good, and I thank him for his grace and mercy.
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