Fresh Starts for Your Family’s New Year

The start of a new year is one of my favorite times of the year.  In part because I am a typical Type A that loves taking on new challenges, projects, and changes but more importantly because it gives me a good chance to become a better mother, wife, and friend.   The New Year lets me mentally and emotionally shed baggage, struggles, and worries and make a fresh start in my attitude, routines, and habits.

So to help myself and you make fresh starts we are beginning a new series called 31 Days of Fresh Starts for Your Family. Throughout the month of January we will be posting a new fresh start idea. Each fresh start idea is designed to encourage families to make changes in their lives and work toward becoming a better family.  Whether your struggles are with parenting, communicating, clutter, or time all families have some area of their lives that need changes, improvements, and fresh starts. Read more

Giveaway - Enter to Win a Free Copy of the Daysteps Planner

Enter today to win a free copy of the all new Daysteps Planner.

Designed by a team of busy women, the Daysteps planner is a personal lifestyle planner for women like you have never seen before.   The Daysteps Planner is designed to help you manage the many key aspects of your life while at the same time motivating you to become the person you want to be and feel calm and capable about carrying out your daily activities and reaching your intentions.  Some of the key features of this planner are

-        Priorities and intentions pages for reaching your life goals

-        Space for clearing your head of cluttered thoughts and recognizing all you do each day

-        To do list for accomplishing day-to-day tasks

-        Personal pages for filling your heart through introspective writing

-        Fitness and nutritional tracking sections to help you feel your best every day

-        Calendars for schedules and appointments

To be eligible to win, simply join our Facebook fan page. That’s it!. Winners will be drawn via Random.org on Friday, December 18, 2009 at 2:00 PM EST and will be notified via Facebook of their prize. Winners have 48 hours to claim their prize.

Video - 8 Weeks to a Frazzle Free Christmas - Week 8

#frazzlefree This is Week 8 of our 8 Weeks to a Frazzle Free Christmas.  You can find complete day by day details of the plan as well as printables and additional resources at http://www.familieswithpurpose.com/.