Welcome to the BLOG for Moments Publishing! I hope that this blog can be a place for all of us to share ideas for making memories, building traditions and for caring. I am hopeful that we will eventually have hundreds of ideas offered for the various stages, ages and moments of life. Please share YOUR ideas for special gifts, thoughtful gestures, opportunities to make someone feel special when a baby is coming, during a child's growing up years, when a child leaves home or begins to plan a wedding, during the grandparenting years, on special holidays or on special non-holiday days, etc. ... or anytime you just want to connect or to care. It will be fun to read of other's ideas and to just learn from each other! Please choose a category at the left (or suggest another!) and leave YOUR idea under "comments" ... please feel free to visit the blog often and see what new ideas might be listed ...

I am excited to tell you that LOVE LIFTS ... through the generations will be available at
www.MomentsPublishing.com by December 1, 2009. This book is a culmination of a lifetime of thoughts ... I am eager to share this book with you (excerpts can be found at www.MomentsPublishing.com). The book will have over 1300 ideas for making memories, building traditions and ways to connect or care ... to add to the ones you would like to share with us here!

Thank you for visiting our new blog ... and thank you for sharing YOUR ideas. I hope that you enjoy reading through the various categories ... and I do hope that you find something that has meaning for you or yours ...
because love lifts! Karen (Moments Publishing)

bedtime ideas ...

how do you end the day with your child? a bedtime story or devotional? a special kiss? a song? how do you lovingly end the day with your child? we would love to hear and learn from you ... Blessings, Karen (Moments Publishing)

retirement ...

do you have plans to honor someone retiring? can you share your ideas with us? we would love to honor someone who is retiring and could learn from you! what have you done or what will you do? make a scrapbook of memories from co-workers? write that person a personal letter letting them know that they have made a difference? how have you passed on a bit a love to someone in the last part of a particular journey who is now headed to a new one? thanks for sharing .... Karen
(Moments Publishing)

children with special needs ...

parents (and families) of children with special needs yearn to just be considered a "loving family" vs. a family "who has a child with special needs" ... though their daily schedule may be very different from yours, that family dealing with special needs most probably would still like to build their own memories, create their own traditions and be included in community event (if it fits for their child) ... have you thought of ways to just "be there" for parents who have a 25 hour a day task of caring for a child's special needs? do you offer to babysit the child with special needs or take the siblings out for some individual attention? or perhaps, YOU are the parent of a child with special needs ... please, tell us ... how can we support you or give you a "lift" from time-to-time or affirm you? how can we do that for your child? we stand in awe of what you accomplish every single day ... perhaps you have all the usual parenting issues with other children PLUS the special challenges with a differently-abled child.. we'd like to learn ways we can pass a little love your way ... Karen (Moments Publishing)

end of day craziness ...

what do YOU do at the end of the day when your kids (and YOU!) start to have a melt-down? do you put on soft music? tell us how you "try" to beat this "oh-can-be-so-crazy time"! Karen (Moments Publishing)

rainy day fun ...

what great ideas do you come up with for those rainy days when the kids (or grandkids) are er ... ummm ..."climbing the walls"? do you have breakfast for lunch? play a special game? pull out something from your "emergency craft shelf"? oh, do tell us! (quick!) ... Karen (Moments Publishing)

gifts for special days ...

do you have an idea for a "special "gift? one you received, or one you gave, or one you would like to give? when a friend adopts, when a child become a "teenager" or is about to leave for college? when your child receives their Master's Degree? when someone is ill, when someone has retired, when a child has made a terrific effort at something new? etc., etc., etc.! please write! we love to hear gift ideas ... little gifts are another way to share a little lift with someone else ... p.s. the best gifts are not always the ones that cost money! Karen (Moments Publishing)

p.p.s. ... "special gifts" might be also found under other blog categories like a baby is coming, birthdays, grandparenting, celebrating each honor, engagements and weddings, holidays, retirement, etc. )