How to use a calendar for home management...With a new year, comes a new calendar - with all its glorious white space begging to be filled with appointments, practices, school activities, and all the other chaos that accompanies children.

As our days fill, it's easy to lose track of who needs to be where and when. Not to mention bills to pay and the constantly growing to-do lists. I keep it all under control in one place - the family calendar.

My calendar is pretty much my life - it's the first thing I look at in the morning, and the last place I go before bed. Over the years, I've developed a pretty efficient system for tracking appointments, bills, to-dos, and even our weekly menu.

Here are my favorite tricks for keeping it all together:

1. Location
No calendar will do you any good if it's never checked. Place your family calendar where it will be most useful. Do you have a centralized location where everyone will see it? Should it be by the front door so you never miss a thing? I keep mine in the bathroom. Yep, the

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Home solution tips and tricks...Let's hear it ladies, how many of you vowed to be more organized this new year? Me too. Sometimes it's a little bit difficult to figure out just where to begin. These pointers will get the ball rolling with clever ideas for home organization and solutions. From using a walnut to get rid of scratches to storing bedding inside a pillowcase (genius!), these 10 home solution tips and tricks are just what the new year called for!









Hull strawberries
1. Hull Strawberries
It's all in the name with this clever technique of hulling strawberries with a straw.


Disguise dings
2. Disguise Dings
Who would have known that rubbing a walnut can hide those little scrapes?

Related: 16 awesome ways to organize your closet


Erase Crayon Markings
3. Erase Crayon Markings
WD-40 is just what you need to get rid of crayon on TVs and walls.


Keep It Fresh
4. Keep a Cut-Up Apple Fresh
This simple idea has saved me from having to convince a 3-year-old that a little brown doesn't mean it's bad.


Organize Your Sheets
5. Organize Your Sheets
Keep your sheets organized by tucking them away inside the

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Sanskrit is the most ancient of the classical languages that are alive today. The elegant charm of Sanskrit language combined with its mystical powers attracts thousands to learn to speak this language. Yoga instructors have a special need and fancy for Sanskrit since it is the language of Yoga. Gaining a fair deal of familiarity with Sanskrit phonetics and terminologies will be an added qualification for a yoga master. There are several easy ways to learn to speak Sanskrit.

Samskrita Bharati is one of the leading organizations that offer courses for learning Sanskrit. One of the most popular of these courses is a three day intensive camp for learning Sanskrit with a special emphasis on meeting the needs of those in the field of Yoga. The name of the course is Jahangir, called after a popular river flowing down in India from the Himalayas.

Attending this camp will equip you with a good insight into the wonderful culture that forms the base for the Yoga philosophy. In addition, the

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Creating confusion and chaos within the Garden of Eve demonstrated the power of the Serpent or Satan and goes on further in history to destroy much that is good and tainted forever to become evil. This first attack of righteousness and decency was the beginning of choosing between Satan and the chosten Seed. This chaos and confusion is followed by more temptation and invoke promises of aid to those who are poor and seeking shelter. Spreading out his mighty wings he promises his heart is true and pure as he bows before the very persons whom he wishes to convert into faithful disciples and spread his evil words.

Pulling out all the stops of a darkened but fiery Hell he seduces them into more temptation and allows them to revolt without restraint as he stirs up the people with envy and revenge that are symbolic of the Serpent and contrary to the wishes of the Creator. Some good men will fight back in vain attempts to bring back the truth but as the masses begin to dwell down there

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God has created human body for to be vegetarian. for an example there is lot of difference in the jaws of vegetarian and non vegetarian animals if we see it carefully we can find that non vegetarian animals have two tee in front both down and upward jaw are vary big. secondly they drink water not by lips but tongue. they have very thin tongue. contrary to it vegetarian animals have jaws same as human beings,thick tongue and sip water with lips like we people drink. that is not a hint to human beings that that they are made for vegetarian food. perhaps this the reason man has becoming more violent and cruel. but people non vegetarian give logic that they are more stronger to vegetarian but practically it is myth even new researches have prove that vegetarian food in many ways more nutrient and more safe than to non vegetarian. we can see elephant is pure vegetarian but has more strength than to king tiger and tiger don't dare to attack adult elephant. moreover horse is pure vegetarian

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I don't know what's going on with me lately. Perhaps it's the "mom brain" or my mind has turned to mush. I've been craving knowledge lately. I've had my max of cartoons, video games and Old Maid. I want to learn something new. I've been wanting to learn to bake bread for quite a while and finally got brave enough to start trying. I actually wrote an article about my first time baking bread and found it to be quite comical. I survived a tasty bread but that wasn't enough for me. There are tons of recipes out there on the internet for bread and it is very overwhelming for someone who has never been taught the basics of baking bread. My goal in this new baking hobby is to have that signature recipe that's all mine. One that I've mastered and people ask me specifically to make. That must be the Italian coming out of me. I love it when people take seconds of my meals, especially my desserts. So my new mission right now is to learn to bake bread.

As if it isn't enough for me to focus on one

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My daughter is a huge fan of giraffes. She has her own little stuffed giraffe that she takes everywhere she goes. She makes noises for her giraffe and makes it "talk" but do giraffes really make sounds? Have you ever heard one make noise?

It took a while, but I found a video on youtube by Myth Crew. Some interesting facts about giraffes:

• they can get up to 18 feet tall
• their heart is about 25 pounds, which is a little over 2 gallons of milk jugs together size
• their tongue is about a foot and a half long so they can reach food at high places
• they can either bend their knees or spread their front legs apart so they can reach down to drink water
• they can't keep their head down low for very long because it will make their blood pressure drop and make them pass out.
• they have the same number of bones in their neck that all mammals have

So do they make sound? Check out myth crew for more interesting facts and find out for yourself!

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