This guest post from Doris Dillon

I had a holiday party at the beginning of December. I was just having the people over from work. I spent a lot of decorating and making sure that everything was going to be just perfect. I ordered steaks from Omaha steaks and also had my brother in law man the gill that we borrowed from the church and made him the grill master. I turned on the satellite dish tv and found the holiday radio station and put it on play. Everyone that came had a great time. I think that my favorite part of the party was the “Tricky Santa” game. I had never played, but my friend Mary Helen suggested that we ask everyone to bring a ten dollar gift, wrapped, to place underneath the tree. Everyone at the party drew a number and we took turns opening gifts. The trick to the game was that you could trade anyone’s gift that had already opened their gifts. It was really fun and I think that we will do it again next year!

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The Author of this post is Darius Boone

Between the two of us, my sister and I have five kids. When we get together, which we do often, it is always very loud and crazy. While we are trying to carry on a conversation there are usually two kids running around us yelling and playing, one baby nursing, one toddler climbing on things, and one kid saying they are hungry! It is inevitable with five kid, one kid always seem to be wanting their mom to get up and make them something to eat. This usually happens because they play so hard and won't eat at actual meal times and then they end up starving and begging for food saying: “I'm Starving-ah”. Needless to say when we have all five children in bed it is quiet the relief! Most the time at this point we are both so tired we just to veg on the couch and watch our favorite show on DIRECT TV . It is always an adventure when I am with my sister and all the cousins, but I wouldn't trade it for anything!

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What do you think is cuter, puppies or babies?  Cute babies or cute puppies always make people’s hearts melt.  The voting for Puppies vs. Babies is going on right now until the 23^rd of November.  Get your chance to weigh in on the subject now.    

My hubby loves dogs but unfortunately we can’t have one because he has some kind of allergy with their fur.  I, on the other hand, am scared of dogs.  When I hear them barking, I get scared but when I saw a Chihuahua dog at the hospital, I fell in-love with her.  She was so cute that my fear of dogs vanished for a while.   

Generally, I think that babies are cuter.  They smell much better than puppies, especially when wet.   A lot of dogs shed hair that can get all over the place like on furniture, in the carpet and they can be really messy too, but then babies can be pretty messy in their own right.  I guess those things don’t really count toward cuteness but they do affect my overall attitude about puppies and babies. 

This is my niece.  I think she could have won this contest if my sister had known about it earlier.  Isn’t she cute?  Too bad the submission time for this contest has already passed but the voting is still going on so make your voice heard.  To vote, head over to the Puppies vs. Babies online contest. The winning puppy or baby will win $5,000.   Don’t forget to share your ideas and opinions in the comments section.

Guest post written by Katelyn Wood

I'm a really big planner. There are all kinds of things that I love planning all the time, whether it's what I'm going to fix for Sunday dinner or what I'm going to do while we're on family vacation. So when we decided that we were going to take our family to New York City for a long weekend, I started planning what we were going to do right away.

As I was online looking up all of that stuff, I ran across some really great information online about Hearing Aids. I showed it to my husband and after that we both got hearing tests and fitted with hearing aids.

I started planning right away to see which play I would go and see, and I decided on taking the family to go and see Jersey Boys. Our neighbor went and saw it when she was on vacation with her husband and thought that it was so great! I'd rather take the advice of someone that I know about which play to go and see instead of one that some random tour guide tells me is the best one to go and see.