Best Place to Find Fun Women’s Gifts

Hi, are you still looking for a perfect place to find things as gifts for your female friends or female relatives? If you a husband, perhaps now you’re looking for something as a gift for your wife. It’s for someone that is close to you; so, you want to give something unique and personalized, right? Unique and personalized things will become impressive gifts; and a woman that receives it will feel so special.

Let me help you because I know a place called Posylane that offers unique and personalized gifts. For fun things that women will definitely like, I have my three favorites; and I want to share here for you. Personalized ink stamps can be a perfect gift. You can choose one design and font that you most like from 28 personalized designs. Each ink stamp includes name, complete address and also initial letter of a name.

My second favorite is their qualified bath wrap. You will love these products. Posylane Mint bath towel wraps are very soft, light weight, large enough to cover the body, comfortable to wear and available in nine attractive colors. As a gift, you can personalize the bath towel wrap with a name or monogram. For your information, bath towel wraps are available in three sizes: child size, teen size and adult size.

How about giving personalized platter? I think it’s also a good idea! By the way, their platters are my favorite, too. If you’ve seen the products, you will love it. Not only platter, you can give a set of platter, plate and placemat. Kelly Hughes Designs have created various collections of personalized plates, platters and placemats for mature tastes. All designs are gorgeous. You can also personalize it, isn’t cool?

Whatever gift that you choose, as long as you make a choice at Posylane, it would be a special gift because Posylane provide fun things that women like.

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CC: Honesty is the Best Policy

I totally agree with this. In my family, like most other families, I was raised to always speak honestly; and it still continues until now.

Honesty in a relationship of a married couple is very important. It will determine the quality of your relationship. I believe that whenever there is honesty; the trust will also be there.

To maintain a harmonic marriage, a married couple should apply open communication. It includes being honest one another and not keeping secret. I and my hubby have no secrets. I know his past and either does he. We can discuss about everything.

In our daily marriage life, I always try to express my feeling and tell the truth. My hubby said that he always speaks to me honestly as well because he doesn’t have the heart to lie to me, hehehe.

Being honest with each other will make your marriage life happier, because once you tell a lie, you have to cover it with more other lies. I don’t want to have a life which full of lies…

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Watery Wednesday

Happy Wednesday, everyone! This Wednesday I want to share pictures that I shot a few days ago from a 3th floor terrace at Bogor Trade Mall. You can see a small river that flows through inside Bogor city, West Java,Indonesia.

For more beautiful watery pictures, I invite you to visit Watery Wednesday…

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To be Good Parents Guidance

Now is parents’ turn. Good parents don’t just happen immediately, right? Parents should grow and apply lessons that they have learned. Continually trying to improve themselves and their parenting skills are important things to do. Author and Pediatrician Marianne Neifert shares the seven things that will help you understand what makes a goods parent. Here they are:

Provide unconditional love and encouragement to your child.
Saying I love you, is important. But even more important is showing your child that you love them by giving your time and attention. Playing games, reading stories, and talking all show your love. Encouragement is also essential. Every child needs to feel like their parents are their best cheerleader. And with their parents help they can accomplish anything.

Make your children a high priority.
This doesn’t mean that you don’t take care of yourself and your marriage. But it does mean that your children should come before others. This may mean that you need to say ‘no’ sometimes.

Strengthen your team as parents.
Strengthening your team applies to parents. It means that parents agree beforehand on important issues like rules and discipline. They discuss together important decisions that need to be made concerning the children and family.

Discipline consistently.
To cultivate this quality of being a good parent is one of the hardest things to do. At the end of a hard day it is so easy to give in to a child that is crying or whining, but that is not consistent. It does not teach them and only makes your job as a parent more difficult. Set limits and rules and always enforce them.

Teach responsibility.
Give your children responsibilities. You can ask your child to keep clean and tidy his/her own bed room. Or any other responsibilities such as emptying the small garbage cans every week, helping clean up the house, clearing their dishes off of the table, etc. Children need to understand that they are responsible for their own actions and the consequences that follow.

Create togetherness through routines.
Daily, weekly, or even yearly family rituals create a bond between family members. It may be as simple as reading a book together every night or taking a yearly trip to the beach. Dr. Neifert says rituals provide the "social glue that bonds one generation to another, creating many of the special anchor memories within a family".

Take time to recharge.
Parents need to take some time for themselves. When you are running on empty you are not doing your children any good. Lack of sleep, isolation and self-neglect can leave parents feeling physically exhausted, emotionally depressed and useless. Husbands and wives can spend time together every evening after putting children in bed. You can have a date night every Saturday night, though it usually consists of watching a movie or playing games at home.

After knowing the seven steps to be a good parent, you can begin to apply it actually. Take it one step at a time...

Source: thecutekid.com/Teresa and google
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Couple's Corner: Breakfast in Bed

Breakfast in bed is one of my hubby’s favorites. We do this often! I don’t meet my hubby everyday now, but he can go back home from his work place every three days. Most of week ends, he must work.

So, during his days at home, every breakfast time is breakfast in bed. There’s nothing special about the meal. A cup of coffee is a must, and also a glass of warm water. He likes to have toasted bread for breakfast.

Of course, I always accompany him. While having breakfast, we usually watch news on television. I really enjoy the times when we can be together like this because we can’t do it everyday…

Simple things like breakfast in bed can be romantic enough, right? You don’t have to go to an expensive dining place to have sweet moments together. Hehehe, sorry, this time, my story is very short. I invite you to join or to read other’s story by clicking the badge above.

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When do You Need to Start Saving Your Marriage?

When you say,” I do” on your wedding day, of course, you are dreaming of living in a happy marriage life; but sometimes life doesn’t go on as we want it to be. Marriage itself is a difficult commitment and marriage life has its ups and downs. But how if you begin to feel: there is something wrong, there is something hurts you or there is something that makes you uncomfortable, and you don’t know what exactly it is.

A broken marriage may start from a problem that lets unsolved for along time. You can’t ignore any problem. No matter what small a problem is, it can become the discomfort source in your relationship. Moreover, it can lead to the negative thinking such as a desire to divorce. Knowing from the beginning the danger signs in a marriage will help you a lot. You can anticipate what have hurt you or what have made you uncomfortable. To be able to save your marriage, you should realize in advance whenever you need a marriage help.

If you start to feel uneasy for any reason about your marriage, or even if you want to make sure you’re on the right track, marriage counseling might be for you. If you make this decision earlier rather than later, you can improve your communication and perhaps strengthen your marriage even more.

You shouldn’t wait until worse thing happens in your marriage like infidelity, emotional abuse, neglect or something bad else. If you feel consistently unhappy when you spend time with your spouse, it can be a sign that you need to save your marriage. If your marriage is in trouble, it will affect other areas of your life. You may feel depressed or unhappy in many areas of your life because you are too busy worrying about your marriage.

You and your spouse may also consider on participating in a marriage retreat. It can also be a perfect way for you to reconnect and focus on your marriage. Your life is so busy; so, it will be nice to have a special time together to just discuss your marriage and reconnect one another. Whatever way you choose to save your marriage, the most important point is, save your marriage earlier!

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To be a Good Husband Guidance (2)

Hi, nice to see you again. This Sunday I’ll share the continuing of how to be a good husband tips. Check it out…

4. Don’t bring your own issues into the marriage
All of us have emotional baggage. When you marry, you bring that emotional baggage into the marriage. When your wife comes to you for support, that isn’t the time to open up that emotional baggage. There are times when you can unload this stuff on your wife, but not when she needs your support.

It’s common for a man to internalize all her problems and make them our own. But if you do this, you are losing sight of why she confided in you in the first place. Don’t be selfish when you are supposed to be supportive.

5. Know when to make it about you
Of course, it can’t always be about her or the marriage. There are times when your needs should be met. That’s the definition of a give-and-take partnership, which is what a marriage should be about.

Tell her how you feel, but don’t put her in a defensive position.
This means you describe to her how something she does affects you without making your feelings accusatory. When you talk about issues in your marriage, tell her about how it affects you instead of what it is about her that bothers you. Good communication is one of the keys of a healthy marriage; good communication requires you to tell her how you are affected.

If your wife does something that hurts you, tell her exactly that you are hurt. Don’t focus on her actions, but on the consequences of those actions. If you simply accuse her of undermining you or being insensitive, it automatically puts her on the defensive. When she’s defensive about her actions, good communication becomes all but impossible.

6. Be affectionateWomen need affection sometimes.
If you show your wife spontaneous affection occasionally, it reassures her of the love bond.

7. Be willing to get outside help
There’s the common joke about men refusing to ask for directions. Men throughout history have needed to be self-sufficient. That’s one of the characteristics which make men successful. When we were out in the wilderness hunting for food, we couldn’t stop at the convenience store to ask where the herd was.

A smart man has to realize when he can’t do it all himself. One of those cases is the man whose marriage is in trouble. It’s very standard for a man to refuse to go to a marriage counselor.

A man would prefer to buy a map than ask for directions. In the same way, he would rather read how-to guides on how to save his marriage than ask for professional help. In a lot of cases, getting good advice is enough. Modifying our attitudes and the subsequent behaviors those attitudes cause can have profound effects on a failing marriage. But sometimes the problems run deeper. That’s when a man has to give into his wife’s request that they speak to a counselor.

Professional marriage counselors can be a great help. They are instructors in how to listen, how to show respect, how to avoid judgment, how to be a part of the team, how to express your feelings and how to be more affectionate. In short, when a man finds that his best efforts to improve his marriage skills fail, he needs a trained instructor to work on those skills.

Again, this guidance mentions ideal things. But anyway, husbands (and wives) can learn from this. It needs effort from both sides to maintain a marriage…

Source :howtoguides365.com
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