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National Boating and Fishing Week – June 1-8, 2014

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National Boating and Fishing Week – June 1-8, 2014

Photograph Credit: Take Me Fishing

Every year during the first week of June, national boating and fishing week commences.

Many states offer FREE fishing days where no licenses are required.

These days are great for testing how likely you would return to see if a fishing license is worth the cost for your family.

If you are interested, check with your local parks or lakes to see if any community events are planned for this week.

May you enjoy the great outdoors during this upcoming week. Happy exploring!

Happy National Boating and Fishing Week

Planning: Intentional Summer Fun

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Planning: Intentional Summer Fun

Photograph Credit: Microsoft Images

Summer brings longer days, a slower pace of life, and extended family weekends.

As the summer begins, we have lots of ideas and plans for visiting the waterparks, meeting up with friends, taking a vacation, and getting caught up on life.

Though we have great visions of how summer will flow, I will not experience those events unless we plan for intentional summer fun.

Now, the planning does not need to be day by day or hour by hour, but we do plan our weekend activities before our 3-day family time passes by this summer.

There are many ways to plan for intentional summer fun. But to get the creativity rolling, check out these intentional planning resources:

In using time wisely and making sure that all those great suggestions find a place on your calendar, use these resources to plan for intentional summer fun. Happy planning!

Question: What is one item on your bucket list this summer?

Cherishables: FREE Father’s Day Card through June 1, 2014

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Cherishables: FREE Father’s Day Card through June 1, 2014

Photograph Credit: Cherishables

In preparation for Father’s Day, Cherishables is offering a FREE Father’s Day card through June 1, 2014.

With a limit of one FREE card per account, choose your card, personalize it, and then enter promotional code DAD14C at checkout.

Your total should come to $0 with FREE shipping.

This offer is only available while supplies last or until Sunday, June 1, 2014.

In using time wisely, you can create your own card and have it shipped prior to Father’s Day on Sunday, June 15, 2014. Happy creating!

Question: What gifts are you giving or do you want for Father’s Day?

2014: Happy Memorial Day!

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2014: Happy Memorial Day!

Photograph Credit: Microsoft Images

Originally called Decoration Day, Memorial Day has slowly developed into a national holiday for all Americans to remember our fallen soldiers.

The sacrifice and pain of those remaining family members and friends makes this day difficult.

Thank you seems an inadequate response to the pain these family members endure.

Yet, those of us who live under the freedom these heroes provided express our gratitude by honoring those who left their imprint within our country’s history.

From Poets and Poetry of Kansas, edited by Thomas W. Herringshaw (Chicago: American Publishers’ Association) 1894, page 332, the poem “Decoration Day” honors our gallant ones from the home of the brave.

Decoration Day

by Frederick B. Hill 

2014: Happy Memorial Day!

Photograph Credit: Microsoft Images

Go forth ye brave and gallant men,
Ye patriotic noble band,
Who shouldered arms and risked your lives
To save from foes our noble land.

Comrades that fell in that defense, 
That in their graves now silent lie;
Their gallant deeds and honored names,
In patriot hearts will never die.

God has decked our land with flowers, 
On heroes’ graves should now be spread;
By living patriot hands that are,
Should be scattered o’er the dead.

Ne’er was wrote on history’s page 
More gallant deeds by heroes brave,
Who fought and bled in freedom’s cause,
Our land and liberties to save.

Their deeds will still in memory live, 
While time shall last or country stand,
And men are found truthful and brave,
And heaven smiles on freedom’s land.

May peace reign o’er our happy land, 
While nations live and time shall be,
And God be honored by ail men,
Loved and adored on land and sea.

Thank you to every soldier who served and who are serving our country. And to all the family members of those who served and are serving, thank you for your sacrifices.

Happy Memorial Day!

2014: Memorial Day Activities

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2014: Memorial Day Activities

Photograph Credit: Microsoft Images

This weekend is dedicated to remembering those who gave their lives fighting for our freedoms.

From e-mails and Facebook posts to these 6 ways to say thank you to our troops, we can each participate this Memorial Day.

As you gather with family and friends for delicious cookouts this Memorial Day, remember those who fought and died for the freedoms we have today.

In honor of their sacrifice and to thank all those who defend our freedoms, participating businesses are offering the following offers to military families for this Memorial Day:

As offers vary from location to location, please verify your local establishment’s participation. In using time wisely, celebrate those who are serving and honor those who gave their all.

Happy Memorial Day!