Carnival of Family Life: September 2009 “Fall Into Fall” Edition

At long last, sum­mer is pre­dicted to yield to autumn tomor­row here in North­ern Cal­i­for­nia. And finally, after mov­ing and striv­ing to set­tle into our new home, I have had time to peruse the more than 200 posts sub­mit­ted to and com­pile this “Fall Into Fall” Edi­tion of the Car­ni­val of Fam­ily Life!

I thank every­one who is par­tic­i­pat­ing in this Edi­tion either by con­tribut­ing their post(s) or read­ing the won­der­ful sub­mis­sions received!

I also thank you for your patience! Mov­ing turned out to be much more work and far more tir­ing that I antic­i­pated or remem­bered. But well worth the time, effort, and expense. We absolutely love our new home and are enjoy­ing our first glimpses of the chang­ing sea­son as the col­ors in our beau­ti­ful yard slowly trans­form into golds, oranges, and browns.

Fam­ily Cook­ing & Recipes

James Ward presents Hot Hol­i­day food posted at Fam­ily Meals Made Easy, fea­tur­ing exotic recipes and new sum­mer tastes.

Mar­jorie presents Make-Your-Own Gra­nola posted at Lau­rel on Health Food. Make a big batch and have a deli­cious snack ready for your fam­ily sans arti­fi­cial ingre­di­ents, chem­i­cals, and preservatives.

Make it from Scratch presents Fun Fruity Drinks posted at Make It From Scratch.

Mr Salsa presents A Great Tomato Mango Salsa Recipe posted at Salsa Recipes For You.

Fam­ily Crafts & Activities

The Fam­ily presents At the beach posted at Once Upon a Fam­ily, illus­trat­ing that fam­ily mem­bers can pur­sue indi­vid­ual inter­ests and still spend time together.

presents Mom Birth­day Cards Print­able posted at Home Life Weekly.

Dolfin presents WFMW — Paper Dolls posted at Lion­den Land­ing, describ­ing how ener­getic preschool­ers can play with and enjoy paper dolls for many hours.

Make it from Scratch presents Home­made Edi­ble Jew­elry posted at Make It From Scratch.

Vera Lang presents Star­bucks Cof­fee Cup Cozy ~ Easy Craft For The Beach posted at Fine Craft Guild .com, a craft idea that is “fem­i­nine, use­ful, ecofriendly, and makes a fab­u­lous per­son­al­ized gift adapted to any theme or sea­son.” Fea­tures a free tuto­r­ial, tips and per­son­al­iza­tion ideas.

PT presents The Munny Jour­ney Keep­sake Jour­nal posted at Prime Time Money, a Munny Jour­ney Keep­sake Journal.

Gin G. presents Keep a His­tory posted at Sense Scribe.

Elle Kaye presents Free Kids’ Party Games posted at Kid­dingAbout.

Lisapresents Get­ting Cre­ative with Tod­dlers! posted at Kid­dingAbout.

Adam presents Play­dough Games posted at Nat­ural Par­ent­ing Tips.

Savan­nah Gar­cia presents Memo Board posted at Fancy Vin­tage.

Make it from Scratch presents Make Your Own Trea­sure Hunt posted at Make it From Scratch.

presents Pump­kin Tem­plates for Hal­loween posted at Home Life Weekly, free tem­plates for Hal­loween pump­kin carving.

Edu­ca­tion

Martha Jack­son presents Top 50 Online Edu­ca­tion Blogs posted at The .Edu Tool­box.

Mark Mont­gomery presents Five Essen­tial Tips for a Per­fect Col­lege Essay posted at Great Col­lege Advice. “It’s never too early to think about col­lege essays,” per Mark.

Meaghan Mon­trose presents Back to School Tips to be Suc­cess­ful in Class posted at Tutor Fi.

Gary Andrew presents 10 Tips to Improve Your Mem­ory posted at Best Online Grad­u­ate Degree.

Tom DeRosa presents I Want to Teach For­ever: Par­ent & Stu­dent Guide to Get­ting the Teach­ers and Classes You Deserve posted at I Want to Teach For­ever, offer­ing an insider’s perspective.

Miss Bank­rupt presents Analy­sis of Kinder­garten School Sup­plies posted at Miss Bank­rupt.

Fam­ily Humor

Puna Miller presents Happy Birth­day to Me posted at Life Sig­na­tures.

Scott presents The Wave of Dis­ci­pline posted at Scott.

Angelawd presents I’m hop­ing no one noticed any­thing odd posted at angelawd, ask­ing how one can “act nor­mally at a gar­den party when a mos­quito bites your pri­vate parts?”

Janette presents My Mom Is Cool; Top Gun Cool posted at World’s Strongest Librar­ian.

Sub­ur­ban Wife presents Mar­riage Humor, New­ly­wed Fights posted at Sub­ur­ban Wife Life.

Cher presents Mall Shop­ping 101 posted at TheOnlyGirl.com about how Cher is “train­ing my hus­band and sons to be shoppers.”

Amanda CMJ presents Three Things You Should Know About Where You Are Mov­ing Before You Move posted at Extra (Hour)dinary Par­ent­ing.

HA Guy presents How To Han­dle Mov­ing In Together — Part 2: The Bath­room posted at Humor­ous Advice, describ­ing what a guy should expect when shar­ing a bath­room with his female sig­nif­i­cant other.

Fam­ily Finance

Barry presents Does it Make Sense to Use Home Equity to Invest? posted at Asso­ciate Money.

Jim presents FICO Risk Fac­tor Rea­son Codes posted at Bar­gaineer­ing.

DR presents List of Free Pre­paid Credit Cards posted at The Dough Roller.

Kevin Heath presents 25 Places that Kids Eat Free posted at More4kids.

DR presents Are Stu­dent Credit Cards Evil? posted at The Dough Roller.

Finance Tips 101 presents 7 Easy Tips To Help Save Money At The Gro­cery Store posted at Finance Tips 101.

Jim presents Can­cel­ing A Credit Card posted at Bar­gaineer­ing.

Finance Tips 101 presents 5 Sim­ple Tips To Help You Save Money posted at Finance Tips 101.

Condo Blues presents 10 Ways for Col­lege Stu­dents to Go Green on the Cheap posted at Condo Blues.

Jim presents How to Com­pare 0% Bal­ance Trans­fer Offers posted at Bar­gaineer­ing.

Barry presents Retire­ment Plan­ning: Can You Make Do With Less? posted at Asso­ciate Money.

Doug Boude presents Buy­ing a New Home is Easy! posted at Doug Boude.

nickel presents Pre­serv­ing the Har­vest posted at fivecentnickel.com.

JT presents How To Con­sol­i­date Debt: Ways To Reduce Your Debt Load posted at The Smarter Wal­let.

Madi­son presents Ohio 529 Col­lege Advan­tage $25 – $100 Bonus posted at My Dol­lar Plan, describ­ing an oppor­tu­nity to get some free money for col­lege with the Ohio 529, one of the high­est rated 529 plans.

Finance Tips 101 presents Pocket Some Hard Earned Cash By Sav­ing On The Elec­tric Bill posted at Finance Tips 101.

Dan at Every­day­fi­nance presents Child Costs 2008–2009: $221,000 thru 17 (Before Col­lege Costs!) posted at Every­day Finance, an analy­sis of a recent gov­ern­ment report out­lin­ing the cur­rent cost of rais­ing a child.

Finance Tips 101 presents Credit Card Com­pany Tricks and Traps Every Con­sumer Should Know posted at Finance Tips 101.

Fam­ily Health and Wellness

Neena presents Healthy Lunches posted at A Mom’s Life at NeenMachine.com, pro­vid­ing 40 healthy lunch ideas to help “jump-start the school year.”

Helene Zemel presents Urge Your Rep­re­sen­ta­tives & Sen­a­tors to sup­port a Sin­gle Payer Health Care Sys­tem posted at Health Plans Plus. In Helene’s opin­ion, our health­care sys­tem is “badly bro­ken; the best solu­tion might be to replace it with some­thing com­pletely dif­fer­ent. Only a sin­gle payer sys­tem would pro­vide health­care cov­er­age for all. This sys­tem, also called Medicare for all, would offer cost sav­ings not found in any other system.”

Aparna presents Bhra­mari Pranayam posted at Beauty & Per­son­al­ity Groom­ing, a dis­cus­sion of the yoga breath­ing sys­tem that “improves con­cen­tra­tion, relieves migraine pains, reduces stress and hyper­ten­sion, and com­bats and pre­vents disease.”

Joel Frieders presents High Risk OB Visit — August 13th, 2009 posted at HavingTwinsNow.com, “a light-hearted view of a stress­ful test com­monly con­ducted dur­ing the 13th week of pregnancy.”

Aparna presents Beauty & Per­son­al­ity Groom­ing: Gen­eral tips for pos­i­tive health from Ayurveda posted at Beauty & Per­son­al­ity Groom­ing. “Sound health is the basis for hap­pi­ness,” Aparna writes. “These tips assure you good health, the foun­tain of happiness.”

Jacque­lyn presents Swine Flu Pre­cau­tions posted at WParent.com — Wise Par­ent­ing Guide.

Par­ent­ing Tips & Advice

ahuli presents Home Orga­niz­ing Rules posted at Home Sweet Home, describ­ing a great method with which to teach kids to keep the home tidy.

Sheila Hug­gins presents I Need a Babysit­ter posted at Find­ing a Babysit­ter Made Easy.

Christina Crowe presents 6 Steps to Avoid Child Rage posted at Salad Sticks, offer­ing a method to avoid argu­ments with your child.

Gin G. presents Devel­op­ing Inner Strength in Chil­dren posted at Leav­ing Life­time Influ­ence.

Dan presents What are Those Kids Tex­ting? A Par­ents’ Guide posted at My Dad Blog, decod­ing the sym­bols and acronyms kids are typing/texting to each other.

Sonja Stew­art presents The Art of War: How Argu­ing in Front of Your Kids Can Ben­e­fit Them posted at Par­ent­ing Squad.

Melissa Hed­ding presents Good Fences Make Good Neigh­bors posted at Finds For Fam­i­lies.

Bar­bara Long presents Some Thoughts on Potty Train­ing posted at Front Street Playschool.

Becca Glouzstein presents How to Strengthen Your Kids in the Face of Dif­fi­cul­ties posted at Inspi­ra­tion for Moth­ers.

Joe E. presents Should We Pun­ish Chil­dren for Not Fin­ish­ing Their Din­ner? posted at Pro­mote Health. Like so many folks, “I grew up in a fam­ily where chil­dren could not leave the din­ner table until the food on our plates was gone,” Joe writes. “But is that really the best way to raise kids?”

Emma presents Defend­ing your par­ent­ing choices. posted at Baby-Log.

Autumn Beck presents Pocket Cloth Dia­pers, Love Story? posted at All About Cloth Dia­pers, explain­ing how “pocket cloth dia­pers were the per­fect solu­tion for my 15-month-old son’s night­time needs. My pocket cloth dia­per love story con­tin­ued for many years.”

Toni presents Our Birth Story posted at Wifely Steps.

Gin G. presents Inter­net Safety Tips for Chil­dren posted at Web Wise n Oh So Savvy.

Fam­ily Pets

Jason Small presents No Radar in PA posted at New Pen­na­sota.

Jake presents How to Play With Your Dog posted at Dog Train­ing Pet.

mar­jorie presents Stew­art the dog posted at Green Think­ing Blog, describ­ing Stewart’s first eco-friendly, organic dog bone (com­plete with squeakers).

Amir Mar­zouq presents How Eco-friendly is Your Dog? posted at Guffly.

Fam­ily Rela­tion­ships & Self-Improvement

BeThisWay presents Vaca­tion Ends, You Can Find Me Left of Cen­ter posted at Are You Going To Be This Way The Rest of The Time I Know You?

Sharon presents Mom — We will Remem­ber You posted at Psy­chic Cot­tage, a lov­ing trib­ute to her mother on the tenth anniver­sary of her death.

Tiffany Herr presents The Per­fec­tion of Ungrace­ful­ness posted at It All Means Some­thing.

Toni presents A Grandfather’s Love posted at Wifely Steps. A grand­fa­ther shows his love for his soon-to-arrive grand­son in his own lit­tle ways.

Dazza presents A Wed­ding for the Cyn­ics posted at A Life That’s Ordi­nary, explain­ing how he engaged in a “lit­tle self-discovery at a wedding.”

Rick Schi­ano presents You Didn’t Marry Your Kids posted at Rick’s Vic­tory Blog.

OPTED Mag­a­zine presents Clut­ter of a spouse: how to deal with it posted at OPTED Mag­a­zine. Good luck with that!

Ther­a­py­Doc presents The D Word posted at Every­one Needs Ther­apy.

Tay­lor Coburn presents The 7 Areas of Life posted at Motivia. “When it comes to rela­tion­ships, it is worth remem­ber­ing that all areas of our life are inter­con­nected,” Tay­lor writes. “Shifts in one area can have a pro­found impact on what we expe­ri­ence in other areas of our life.”

Elisha Web­ster Emer­son presents B.F.F. — Or At Least Until You’re Lame posted at My Incon­ve­nient Body. “Make new friends, but keep the old? Eas­ier said than done,” says this author.

Whit­ney McKim presents Indi­vid­u­ally Col­lec­tive Blog­ging: You should lie to your spouse to save your mar­riage? posted at My New Chimeri­cal Kit, ask­ing, “Does a suc­cess­ful mar­riage require lying?” Whit­ney offers “a new twist on the the­ory that hon­esty is always the best policy.”

ahuli presents 5 Tips For Bal­anc­ing Work And Home posted at Home Sweet Home.

Savan­nah Gar­cia presents Look­ing Back … posted at Fancy Vin­tage.

Fam­ily Travel

DR presents 5 Travel Rewards Credit Cards Per­fect for Fam­ily Trips posted at The Dough Roller.

presents Our Thrifty Wed­ding Anniver­sary: Har­ro­gate Turk­ish Baths posted at Miss Thrifty.

Abel Cheng presents On the Road with Kids — Seven Use­ful Tips posted at Par­ent Won­der.

Kevin Poulis presents CedarPoint.com – America’s Rockin’ Roller­coast posted at SiteTally.com.

Amy presents Imag­ine It! Chil­dren Museum with Kids posted at Atlanta With Kid Travel Blog.

Amy presents Just Imag­ine if We Are in Legoland posted at The Q Fam­ily Adven­tures Travel Blog.

e-Mom presents Top Museum for Chris­t­ian Fam­i­lies posted at Chrysalis, a video explo­ration of the con­tro­ver­sial Cre­ation Museum in Cincin­nati, Ohio.

Again, thank you for par­tic­i­pat­ing in and sup­port­ing this Edi­tion of the Carnival!

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