1001 + Housewife How-to’s BOOK!
Katie Berry, author of Housewife How-To’s, brings us a useful book of tips that are arranged in categories: cooking, cleaning, laundry and clothing, organizing, saving money, and more! Each category has subcategories to make finding a tip to suit your need easy. I found myself wanting to click a “like” button on many of these.
Disclosure: I received a review copy of this book.
Cousins
I’ve been doing some genealogy recently and here’s some information about cousin relationships.
There are two different parts to the relationship definition. One is the degree of cousinship; first, second, third, fourth, etc. The second is the remove; once removed, twice removed, thrice or three times removed, etc.
Here is the degree:
First cousins share one set of grandparents. Grandpa and Grandma have more than one child. The children of those children are first cousins.
Second cousins share a set of great-grandparents. Your children and your cousin’s children are second cousins.
Third cousins share a set of great-great-grandparents. Your grandchildren and your cousin’s grandchildren are third cousins.
Fourth cousins share a set of great-great-great-grandparents. Your great-grandchildren and your cousin’s great-grandchildren are fourth cousins.
This continues on generation after generation.
Now for the removes.
Each remove is a generation. Your cousin’s children are your first cousins, once removed. They are your childrens’ second cousins.
Your cousin’s grandchildren are your first cousins, twice removed. They are your childrens’ second cousins, once removed. They are your grandchildrens‘ third cousins.
Writers’ Resources
Work For What You Want
16 Years
I married my husband 16 years ago today. 
Time to Spring Ahead!
It’s time to Spring Ahead! Daylight Saving Time is once again upon us. Time to lose an hour’s sleep! At 2 am it’s time to set the clocks ahead to 3 am. Or, just set your clocks ahead before you go to sleep if you don’t want to stay up so late.
Personally I think Daylight Saving Time is a waste of time and money. So many adjustments to be made. Television and radio schedules all eff’d up, people show up late to things because they hadn’t reset their clocks. Finding that one clock you didn’t set months later…
Daylight Saving Time
Not Your Average Mama
My cousin’s daughter, mother of a six-month-old herself, has started a blog called Not Your Average Mama.
Go visit!
Living Wage
Learn or acquire the skills, and you’ll be worth more to the employer.
A Child is Born
Luke 2: 10-11
10And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
11For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
KJV
Merry Christmas to all!
The Real Meaning of Christmas!
Track Santa on His Journey
Track Santa –> Here.
For more than 50 years, NORAD and its predecessor, the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) have tracked Santa’s flight.
The tradition began in 1955 after a Colorado Springs-based Sears Roebuck & Co. advertisement misprinted the telephone number for children to call Santa. Instead of reaching Santa, the phone number put kids through to the CONAD Commander-in-Chief’s operations “hotline.” The Director of Operations at the time, Colonel Harry Shoup, had his staff check the radar for indications of Santa making his way south from the North Pole. Children who called were given updates on his location, and a tradition was born.
In 1958, the governments of Canada and the United States created a bi-national air defense command for North America called the North American Aerospace Defense Command, also known as NORAD, which then took on the tradition of tracking Santa.
Since that time, NORAD men, women, family and friends have selflessly volunteered their time to personally respond to phone calls and emails from children all around the world. In addition, we now track Santa using the internet. Millions of people who want to know Santa’s whereabouts now visit the NORAD Tracks Santa website.
Finally, media from all over the world rely on NORAD as a trusted source to provide updates on Santa’s journey.
In Memory of Retired Colonel Harry Shoup, NORAD’s First Santa Tracker
September 29, 1917 – March 14, 2009
