Free printable romantic cards, love poems, love letters: Romance Awareness Month | Examiner.com

 Why wait till Valentine's Day to celebrate romance? August is Romance Awareness Month (it's also Read a Romance Book Month). So if your love life is a budding or in full bloom here are free printable romantic cards for your loved one. Or maybe romance has gone to seed for you. Maybe its time to plant a new relationship. Use these cards to spark the fire. These websites offer intimate, sensual cards to sent to spouses, sweethearts and lovers and are sensual or romantic. None are obscene or pornographic.  Free printable romantic cards, love poems, love letters: Romance Awareness Month | Examiner.com

Lenten almsgiving service project with social studies, math lessons

I homeschooled our children, our Catholic Lenten lesson plans centered on prayer, fasting and almsgiving, in solidarity with the poor and imitation of our Lord Jesus. A favorite Lenten service project was to help with church missions for our twin parish in Haiti. Here's a Lenten almsgiving service project. Make personal care kits and school supplies kits for those in need. Fill gallon size zippered plastic bags with hygiene products. Discuss needs. Read on  Lenten almsgiving service project with social studies, math lessons | Examiner.com

Take down the Christmas Tree Day: Give Christmas trees to birds or elephants! | Examiner.com

The 12 Days of Christmas have past. Epiphany came and went on Jan. 6, and with it should have gone your old Christmas tree. Because Jan. 5 is Twelfth Night, the final hurrah of the Christmas season. So yes, Virginia, there is a real Take Down the Christmas Tree Day (reported WBUR NPR on Jan. 5). Alas, great weeping and Bah humbugs were heard in Whoville (and across the world) as mourners bemoaned the last rites of the yule season. But now comes another dilemma--what to do with your old dead Christmas trees? Some communities collect them and dump them in the local landfill. But, as nearly half of a landfill is composed (decomposed?) of yard waste, perhaps that's not such a green idea.  Take down the Christmas Tree Day: Give Christmas trees to birds or elephants! | Examiner.com