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In nearly a quarter of households in the US, someone is caring for an elderly parent. Authors Candy Arrington and Kim Atchley draw from their personal experiences to speak to and support those who face the challenges of caring for a parent. With compassion and guidance, Arrington and Atchley partner with readers to help a parent with limited mobility, memory, ability, and resources draw from the wisdom of Scripture for sustenance understand the elderly parent’s perspective on giving up control, illness, and aging effectively organize forms, prescriptions, care, housing, and finances find personal balance by nurturing their own health, faith, and family What begins as a way to honor those they love becomes, for many, a confusing and stressful time. This resource of hope provides caregivers with the support and direction they need to be spiritually, physically, and emotionally prepared for what they face day by day.
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Through her own personal stories and the stories of women and families with whom she's worked doing Family Manager Makeovers, Kathy Peel helps women navigate the seven areas of life that can cause feelings of desperation. The book Entertains the reader with some light-hearted humor Inspires the reader as she learns that God cares about the details of her life and wants to meet her and empower her at her points of desperation Equips the reader to take steps in her own home and personal life that will make a huge difference in her family's—and her own—quality of life Describes the seven areas of home life that can become out of control Features stories from Kathy's life about her own points of desperation and how God has met her in those points, as well as stories from other women Offers spiritually based solutions to practical problemsTHE SEVEN AREAS OF POTENTIAL DESPERATION Home & Property—overseeing the maintenance and care of all tangible assets, including belongings, house and its surroundings, and your vehicles Food—meeting the family's daily food and nutritional needs of your family Family & Friends—dealing with relational responsibilities as a parent and spouse, and with extended family, friends, and neighbors Finances—managing the budget, bill-paying, saving, investing, and charitable giving Special Events—planning and coordinating occasions—birthdays, holidays, vacations, garage sales, family reunions, and celebrations—that fall outside one's normal routine Time & Scheduling—managing the family calendar and daily schedule; dispatching the right people to the right place at the right time with the right equipment Self-Management—caring for one's body, nurturing the mind and spirit
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Through her own personal stories and the stories of women and families with whom she's worked doing Family Manager Makeovers, Kathy Peel helps women navigate the seven areas of life that can cause feelings of desperation. The book Entertains the reader with some light-hearted humor Inspires the reader as she learns that God cares about the details of her life and wants to meet her and empower her at her points of desperation Equips the reader to take steps in her own home and personal life that will make a huge difference in her family's—and her own—quality of life Describes the seven areas of home life that can become out of control Features stories from Kathy's life about her own points of desperation and how God has met her in those points, as well as stories from other women Offers spiritually based solutions to practical problemsTHE SEVEN AREAS OF POTENTIAL DESPERATION Home & Property—overseeing the maintenance and care of all tangible assets, including belongings, house and its surroundings, and your vehicles Food—meeting the family's daily food and nutritional needs of your family Family & Friends—dealing with relational responsibilities as a parent and spouse, and with extended family, friends, and neighbors Finances—managing the budget, bill-paying, saving, investing, and charitable giving Special Events—planning and coordinating occasions—birthdays, holidays, vacations, garage sales, family reunions, and celebrations—that fall outside one's normal routine Time & Scheduling—managing the family calendar and daily schedule; dispatching the right people to the right place at the right time with the right equipment Self-Management—caring for one's body, nurturing the mind and spirit
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Now there is specific, practical help for anyone trying to get a handle on their finances while heading a family on their own. Kara Stefan's Head of Household: Money Management for Single Parents explores a variety of basic financial topics with information and advice geared specifically to the priorities of single-parent households.Head of Household provides in-depth coverage of 11 issues of primary concern to today's single parent, including budgeting, childcare, health care, and housing. As a veteran financial writer, Stefan knows how to translate the field's intricacies into a language we all can understand. As a long-time single parent, she is acutely aware of the difficulties others face in trying to manage money on their own. Combining her two areas of expertise, Stefan has created a resourceful, level-headed, often hilarious guide, filled with stories of real families and a wealth of solid, creative solutions for the financial situations single parents most often face.
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The exquisite and everyday beautiful linens and lace photographed for this book represent collectible household styles made in Europe and North America during the 20th century. Both rare and commonly found examples are included so that readers can learn to differentiate between the two groups. The chapters are organized by types of work, including Appenzell, Battenberg, Bobbin lace, chemical and other machine laces, crochet, cutwork, embroidery, linen damask, explained with origins and copies liberally discussed. The photographs are breathtaking, from over-all room settings to minute details. This is a visually exciting book. The price guide is a valuable tool for this expanding field of collectibles which seem to be undervalued when the quality and supply of fine examples are considered.
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The exquisite and everyday beautiful linens and lace photographed for this book represent collectible household styles made in Europe and North America during the 20th century. Both rare and commonly found examples are included so that readers can learn to differentiate between the two groups. The chapters are organized by types of work, including Appenzell, Battenberg, Bobbin lace, chemical and other machine laces, crochet, cutwork, embroidery, linen damask, explained with origins and copies liberally discussed. The photographs are breathtaking, from over-all room settings to minute details. This is a visually exciting book. The price guide is a valuable tool for this expanding field of collectibles which seem to be undervalued when the quality and supply of fine examples are considered.
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Now there is specific, practical help for anyone trying to get a handle on their finances while heading a family on their own. Kara Stefan's Head of Household: Money Management for Single Parents explores a variety of basic financial topics with information and advice geared specifically to the priorities of single-parent households.Head of Household provides in-depth coverage of 11 issues of primary concern to today's single parent, including budgeting, childcare, health care, and housing. As a veteran financial writer, Stefan knows how to translate the field's intricacies into a language we all can understand. As a long-time single parent, she is acutely aware of the difficulties others face in trying to manage money on their own. Combining her two areas of expertise, Stefan has created a resourceful, level-headed, often hilarious guide, filled with stories of real families and a wealth of solid, creative solutions for the financial situations single parents most often face.
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"You said that you would not fail to improve yourself according to my teaching and correction, and you would do everything in your power to behave according to my wishes." [Prologue] "I urge you to bewitch and bewitch again your future husband, and protect him from holes in the roof and smoky fires, and do not quarrel with him, but be sweet, pleasant and peaceful with him. Make certain that in winter he has a good fire without smoke and let him slumber, warmly wrapped, cozy between your breasts, and in this way bewitch him. In summer take care that there are no fleas in your bedroom or bed." "If just once you displease him you will have a difficult time ever appeasing him enough so that the stain of his anger does not remain engraved and written on his heart. Although he may not show it or mention it, your misdeed cannot soon be smoothed over and erased. Should a second act of disobedience occur, watch out for his vengeance . . . " "Gardeners say that rosemary seeds do not ever grow in French soil, but if you pluck little branches from a rosemary plant, strip them from the top downwards, take them by the ends and plant them, they will grow. If you want to send them far away, you must wrap the branches in waxed cloth, sew them up and then smear the outside with honey; then powder with wheat flour and you may send them wherever you wish." "But as soon as you arrive home, be diligent that you yourself or your men ahead of you, feed the dogs well, then give them fresh clean water in a basin to drink. Next have them put to bed on nice straw in a warm place, in front of the fire if they are wet or muddy, and let them always be held subject to the whip. If you act this way, they will not pester people at the table or sideboard and they will not get into the beds." "Since you must send Master Jehan to the butcher's shop, a list follows of the names of all the butchers' shops in Paris and the meats that they supply: At the Porte-de-Paris there are nineteen butchers who by common estimate sell weekly, if you average the busy season with the slow season: 1,900 sheep, 400 beefcattle, 400 pigs and 200 calves." -from The Good Wife's Guide In the closing years of the fourteenth century, an anonymous French writer compiled a book addressed to a fifteen-year-old bride, narrated in the voice of her husband, a wealthy, aging Parisian. The book was designed to teach this young wife the moral attributes, duties, and conduct befitting a woman of her station in society, in the almost certain event of her widowhood and subsequent remarriage. The work also provides a rich assembly of practical materials for the wife's use and for her household, including treatises on gardening and shopping, tips on choosing servants, directions on the medical care of horses and the training of hawks, plus menus for elaborate feasts, and more than 380 recipes. The Good Wife's Guide is the first complete modern English translation of this important medieval text also known as Le Ménagier de Paris (the Parisian household book), a work long recognized for its unique insights into the domestic life of the bourgeoisie during the later Middle Ages. The Good Wife's Guide, expertly rendered into modern English by Gina L. Greco and Christine M. Rose, is accompanied by an informative critical introduction setting the work in its proper medieval context as a conduct manual. This edition presents the book in its entirety, as it must have existed for its earliest readers. The Guide is now a treasure for the classroom, appealing to anyone studying medieval literature or history or considering the complex lives of medieval women. It illuminates the milieu and composition process of medieval authors and will in turn fascinate cooking or horticulture enthusiasts. The work illustrates how a (perhaps fictional) Parisian householder of the late fourteenth century might well have trained his wife so that her behavior could reflect honorably on him and enhance his reputation.
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A One-of-a-Kind Guide for All Your Household Help NeedsHiring someone to watch your children, care for an aging parent or to provide any other assistance you may need around your home can be an incredibly time-consuming and difficult process. Making sure you comply with all of the employment, hiring, payroll and tax regulations, as well as just being a good employer, is crucial in making this relationship work. How to Hire a Nanny provides guidance from the nation's leading expert on household help-Guy Maddalone. For more than 20 years, Guy has assisted countless families with finding the right help to meet their needs. In this book, he provides you the same advice and walks you through the entire process of being an employer of a nanny or other household employee. You'll find help on topics ranging from forming a work agreement to determining appropriate wages to managing payroll and taxes. How to Hire a Nanny covers everything you need to make the hiring and employing process easy and hassle-free."Guy Maddalone has done it again. After many hours of hard work, he has created an important tool for household employers. Families should review the contents of this book before hiring an employee. They will find a wealth of information to help make the working relationship in their home a success."-Annie Davis, president, Alliance of Professional Nannies Association, and president, Annie's Nannies, Seattle, WA"In a comprehensive guide, Guy Maddalone has compiled all the information a household employer needs to properly manage anyone working in the home. He covers the range of domestic help from hiring one nanny to employing a full staff. With practical information and accurate facts, How to Hire a Nanny will be a valuable resource and handy tool for all household employers and employees."-Wendy Sachs, president, The Philadelphia Nanny Network, Inc., Philadelphia, PA
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A One-of-a-Kind Guide for All Your Household Help NeedsHiring someone to watch your children, care for an aging parent or to provide any other assistance you may need around your home can be an incredibly time-consuming and difficult process. Making sure you comply with all of the employment, hiring, payroll and tax regulations, as well as just being a good employer, is crucial in making this relationship work. How to Hire a Nanny provides guidance from the nation's leading expert on household help-Guy Maddalone. For more than 20 years, Guy has assisted countless families with finding the right help to meet their needs. In this book, he provides you the same advice and walks you through the entire process of being an employer of a nanny or other household employee. You'll find help on topics ranging from forming a work agreement to determining appropriate wages to managing payroll and taxes. How to Hire a Nanny covers everything you need to make the hiring and employing process easy and hassle-free."Guy Maddalone has done it again. After many hours of hard work, he has created an important tool for household employers. Families should review the contents of this book before hiring an employee. They will find a wealth of information to help make the working relationship in their home a success."-Annie Davis, president, Alliance of Professional Nannies Association, and president, Annie's Nannies, Seattle, WA"In a comprehensive guide, Guy Maddalone has compiled all the information a household employer needs to properly manage anyone working in the home. He covers the range of domestic help from hiring one nanny to employing a full staff. With practical information and accurate facts, How to Hire a Nanny will be a valuable resource and handy tool for all household employers and employees."-Wendy Sachs, president, The Philadelphia Nanny Network, Inc., Philadelphia, PA
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"You said that you would not fail to improve yourself according to my teaching and correction, and you would do everything in your power to behave according to my wishes." [Prologue] "I urge you to bewitch and bewitch again your future husband, and protect him from holes in the roof and smoky fires, and do not quarrel with him, but be sweet, pleasant and peaceful with him. Make certain that in winter he has a good fire without smoke and let him slumber, warmly wrapped, cozy between your breasts, and in this way bewitch him. In summer take care that there are no fleas in your bedroom or bed." "If just once you displease him you will have a difficult time ever appeasing him enough so that the stain of his anger does not remain engraved and written on his heart. Although he may not show it or mention it, your misdeed cannot soon be smoothed over and erased. Should a second act of disobedience occur, watch out for his vengeance . . . " "Gardeners say that rosemary seeds do not ever grow in French soil, but if you pluck little branches from a rosemary plant, strip them from the top downwards, take them by the ends and plant them, they will grow. If you want to send them far away, you must wrap the branches in waxed cloth, sew them up and then smear the outside with honey; then powder with wheat flour and you may send them wherever you wish." "But as soon as you arrive home, be diligent that you yourself or your men ahead of you, feed the dogs well, then give them fresh clean water in a basin to drink. Next have them put to bed on nice straw in a warm place, in front of the fire if they are wet or muddy, and let them always be held subject to the whip. If you act this way, they will not pester people at the table or sideboard and they will not get into the beds." "Since you must send Master Jehan to the butcher's shop, a list follows of the names of all the butchers' shops in Paris and the meats that they supply: At the Porte-de-Paris there are nineteen butchers who by common estimate sell weekly, if you average the busy season with the slow season: 1,900 sheep, 400 beefcattle, 400 pigs and 200 calves." -from The Good Wife's Guide In the closing years of the fourteenth century, an anonymous French writer compiled a book addressed to a fifteen-year-old bride, narrated in the voice of her husband, a wealthy, aging Parisian. The book was designed to teach this young wife the moral attributes, duties, and conduct befitting a woman of her station in society, in the almost certain event of her widowhood and subsequent remarriage. The work also provides a rich assembly of practical materials for the wife's use and for her household, including treatises on gardening and shopping, tips on choosing servants, directions on the medical care of horses and the training of hawks, plus menus for elaborate feasts, and more than 380 recipes. The Good Wife's Guide is the first complete modern English translation of this important medieval text also known as Le Ménagier de Paris (the Parisian household book), a work long recognized for its unique insights into the domestic life of the bourgeoisie during the later Middle Ages. The Good Wife's Guide, expertly rendered into modern English by Gina L. Greco and Christine M. Rose, is accompanied by an informative critical introduction setting the work in its proper medieval context as a conduct manual. This edition presents the book in its entirety, as it must have existed for its earliest readers. The Guide is now a treasure for the classroom, appealing to anyone studying medieval literature or history or considering the complex lives of medieval women. It illuminates the milieu and composition process of medieval authors and will in turn fascinate cooking or horticulture enthusiasts. The work illustrates how a (perhaps fictional) Parisian householder of the late fourteenth century might well have trained his wife so that her behavior could reflect honorably on him and enhance his reputation.
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A fine hunter as well as a great household pet, this energetic breed is a perennial favorite among dog fanciers. All Complete Pet Owner's Manuals are heavily illustrated with color photos and line art, and are filled with reliable, easy-to-understand information on pet care. The many titles in this series show and tell pet owners how to care for dogs, cats, birds, fish, reptiles, gerbils, hamsters, and virtually every other animal that is kept as a pet. The books give advice on purchasing and otherwise acquiring a pet, maintaining health care, housing, proper feeding, and where applicable, grooming and training. Clear, straightforward text comes with high-quality, full-color photos and anatomically accurate line art, as well as helpful tables and charts. Table of Contents: WESTIE ORIGIN AND HISTORY Background, Character, and Disposition Sociability Breed Standard FINDING THE BEST WESTIE Good Westie Breeders Newspaper Ads A Family Dog; A Great Companion Westie Cost Age to Acquire Your Westie Adopting an Adult; Male or Female? Spaying A Happy, Healthy Puppy PREPARE FOR YOUR WESTIE One Room at a Time Backyards Chewing Kennel and Run Boarding Identification; Crate PUPPY STRESS First Days Diet and Feeding Schedule Building a Lasting Relationship Canine/Human Socialization Separation Anxiety WESTIE PRIMARY EDUCATION Housebreaking; Paper Training Understandable Cues Crate Training Collars and Leashes Commands Constructive Exercise Fun and Games at Home Learned Behavior vs. Instinctive Traits WESTIE GROOMING To Bathe or Not to Bathe Skin and Coat Care Teeth; Feet and Nails; Ears; Eyes WESTIE NUTRITION Feeding Your Westie Consumable Chewies and Treats Human Food HEALTH CARE The Veterinarian Preventive Care Parasites; Nonpreventable Diseases Heredity Conditions WESTIE VOCATIONS AND AVOCATIONS Agility Conformation Showing Canine Good Citizens Obedience Therapy Dogs YOUR OLD WESTIE Health Problems in Old Westies How to Make Life Easier for your Old Westie Euthanasia INFORMATION Index(0764118994)Paperback / 96 Pages / 6 1/2 x 7 7/8 / 2002
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Budget deficits, gas prices, health care costs, social security, job security…. Anxiety over the economy pervades our daily lives—from reports on the early morning newscasts to gossip around the water cooler to dinner table debate. Yet most citizens are woefully ignorant when it comes to understanding how the economy works and how to interpret the impact of policies and business decisions. It's easy to slip into generalities: government spending is wasteful, taxes are too high, good-paying jobs are being shipped overseas, Americans don't save enough. Other issues become hijacked by political partisans to advance their agendas: trade must be fair!, tax cuts will pay for themselves!, there will be no money left in the social security till after the baby boomers loot it! In Smart Economics, Michael Walden provides an antidote: take 50 of today's top economic issues and explain their meaning, implications, and potential solutions in a logical, straightforward, commonsense, and non-partisan way. Has Government Spending Been Out of Control? Is Profit Bad? Walden applies basic economic concepts and logical argumentation to help readers get their bearings—to separate fact from fiction and ultimately make better economic decisions themselves. The result is an entertaining and highly informative introduction to economic principles and their influence on our behavior.In Smart Economics, Michael Walden provides an antidote: take 50 of today's top economic issues and explain their meaning, implications, and potential solutions in a logical, straightforward, commonsense, and non-partisan way. From Has Government Spending Been out of Control? to Is Profit Bad? to Why Are Pro Sports Stars Paid So Much? Walden demystifies the dismal science, using basic concepts and logical argumentation to help readers get their bearings—to separate fact from fiction and ultimately make better decisions, when it comes to spending, investing, saving, and voting. The result is an entertaining and informative introduction to economic principles and their influence on our behavior.
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It’s easy to think that meaning, fulfillment, and bliss are out there,” somewhere outside of our daily routine. But in this playful yet profound reflection on awareness, the compelling voice of a contemporary woman reveals the happiness at the bottom of the laundry basket, the love in the kitchen sink, and the peace possible in one’s own backyard. Follow Karen Maezen Miller through youthful ambition and self-absorption, beyond a broken marriage, and into the steady calm of a so-called ordinary life. In her hands, household chores and caregiving tasks become opportunities for self-examination, lessons in relationship, and liberating moments of selflessness. With attention, it’s the little things — even the unexpected, unpleasant, and unwanted things — that count.
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It’s easy to think that meaning, fulfillment, and bliss are out there,” somewhere outside of our daily routine. But in this playful yet profound reflection on awareness, the compelling voice of a contemporary woman reveals the happiness at the bottom of the laundry basket, the love in the kitchen sink, and the peace possible in one’s own backyard. Follow Karen Maezen Miller through youthful ambition and self-absorption, beyond a broken marriage, and into the steady calm of a so-called ordinary life. In her hands, household chores and caregiving tasks become opportunities for self-examination, lessons in relationship, and liberating moments of selflessness. With attention, it’s the little things — even the unexpected, unpleasant, and unwanted things — that count.
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The Household Property Inventory Workbook is one purchase you will wish you had made years ago. Not just for property owners, this book is for anyone with names, dates, and documents to remember. If you have valuable jewelry, art, computers, sports and exercise equipment-this is the book to keep track of serial numbers, sales receipts and other information. If it's in your home...put it in this book! The Workbook begins with all the primary household family members' vital statistics: dates and places of birth, websites, e-mails, and cell numbers. If something happens to you and you're in the hospital and the neighbor needs to feed your three cats and two dogs, do you panic? No, you tell him where the Inventory Workbook is and he is all set to take care of your furry friends. Heaven forbid your home is lost to fire, flood, or other natural disaster. However, this is when the Workbook really shines. Your home and its contents are your biggest investments and you've spent a fortune insuring for earthquakes, tornados and theft, etc. It's the worst time in your life and the insurance company policy adjuster wants proof of your loss. You followed the Workbook and recorded the serial numbers of all your valuables; you photographed everything, and listed all sales receipts, and owners' manuals. You're covered! Just sit back and wait for the insurance company to cut you a check! This is just a small sampling of all the useful information recorded in the Workbook. I highly recommend that you pick one up for your home. The Inventory Workbook makes a great wedding or housewarming gift. If you have an adult child heading out on their own make sure he or she has a copy of the Workbook. Reviewed by W.R. Potter for Reader's Choice Literary Reviews
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