Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Funny Family Reunion Jokes Quotes and Rhymes


What have 100 eyes, likes to mashup in a big bunch and say CHEESE?
A big fat family reunion photo shoot. 

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do while you're still down there.

Families are like fudge .. mostly sweet with a few nuts.

“I’m here to talk about our family, but you know what they say, 'If you can't say something nice...' so, thank you all for coming!"



When your kids grandparents tell you to go easy on the kids like they were easy on you -it's not wisdom, age or experience. It's senility.

What do you call it when you have to run around with one foot in a sack, a spoon with an egg in your hand, and an apple in your mouth? A family reunion relay race.

My family is like trail mix. You got your raisins, dates and a variety of nuts.

The reason grandchildren and grandparents get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

The real reason grandparents like to stop to admire the flowers, gaze at the sky, and chat with the neighbors while taking a walk is not because they are sweet, kind and love nature. It's because if they didn't stop now and then they would run out of breath trying to keep up with their grandchildren.

My grandfather walked for miles when he was 60... Now he's 97 years old and we still haven't found him yet.

I overheard my father say to my mother... "I like YOUR mother-in-law better than I like mine.” 

Grandparents can do amazing tricks their children cannot do. They can make their teeth  disappear. They can make things look ten times bigger than they are. They can tell you things about your parents no one else knows. They can read your mind and tell you just what you are thinking before you go and do something really stupid. 

There goes another apple falling from the family tree.

My parents finally confessed that I was adopted. They said, "But the adoption didn't work out, They brought you back."


The real reason grandparents move to Florida is to escape babysitting.

FAMILY REUNION QUOTES






Where would we be if it weren't for family?










FAMILY POEMS


Like eagles we fly, glide and soar
Like whales we swim the vast ocean floor
When we've swum further than we have before
Family pulls us safely back to shore

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Where's the best place to be when you skin your knee? 
In grandma's lap 
or grandpa's knee. 
There is no place else I'd rather be
than dangling from my family tree.




Happy Family Reunion Planning Month!


Having family over for dinner this weekend? This is the ideal time of year to start planning your next family reunion. Swap photos, recipes, make a memory booklet, collect poems about family, plan a talent show, start writing and videoing your family history documentary. 

Get great family reunion event themes, slogans, booklet template, printables, game ideas and activities from Fimark's Family Reunion Planner web app and Fimark's Reunion Planning Keepsake Guidebook




Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Free Family Reunion Planning Book

Free Family Reunion Planner eBook

We're celebrating Family Reunion Planning Month in a whole new way. We're offering free stuff throughout the month of November.  First up, Fimark's Family Reunion Planner Keepsake Guidebook. Keepsake features include a signature of ownership page, journal, recipe compiler, an heirloom record, family tree worksheets, and other genealogy worksheets. 


Fimark's Family Reunion Planner


The reunion planning workbook includes a planning tutorial for individual planners, groups, and committees. There are five reunion theme planners each with recommended activities, itinerary, and luncheon/dinner programs.

FREE GUIDEBOOKLike the keepsake guidebook? If you bought this 132-page paperback book within the last 4 years you're in for a real treat. Take 5 seconds to rate the book at Amazon.com. Once you do email us at fimarkhome@gmail.com and we'll send you the Family Reunion Planner ebook completely free. Our way of saying thanks for the likes and happy Family Reunion Planning Month!

Tuesday, November 1, 2016

November is Annual Family Reunion Planning Month

November is here with a bang. This month history will be made. But what about your family history?
November and December are the ideal months to focus on the contributions your family has made
toward self-empowerment, the community, business and good spiritual health.

Corporate identity is not true identity. True identity begins and ends with family. It means knowing who you are, where you came from and establishing traditions that are far reaching and accomplish a purpose bigger than yourself.

Your identity is in strength and wisdom of your belief system. Your family is not restricted to one race. We each have so many more fathers and mothers from so different parts of the world than we know. It is broad and embraces many cultures, walks of life and ethnic groups. Knowing this humbles us and opens us up to endless possibilities and unencumbered love. Share this with your family and watch them grow.



November is Annual Family Reunion Planning Month. That said, now is the time to start planning your next memorable family reunion. Consider a family genealogy presentations featuring DNA revealing reunion event. It will be a journey you will never forget. Wondering how to get started? Read about the Genealogy themed family reunion program in Fimark's Family Reunion Planner guidebook.


Wednesday, October 26, 2016

The Walk To Remember


Walking is one of the healthiest activities you can take up. Especially outdoor walking while taking deep breaths of fresh air and basking in the sunlight. Vitamin D from the sun does amazing things for the brain, body, and overall state-of-mind. Feeling down? Take a walk. Need to loosen up and think. Take a walk. While you're at it, get the whole family to join you. Make it something special. Something more than just a family stroll. The fact is every family should experience at least one walk to remember in their lifetime. This is not just any walk. It's a walk through the lives of one, two, or more generations of the family. It's called, The Walk of Your Life. 

The Walk of Your Life is about telling a story rich with details you can see, hear, touch and feel. Each story consists of a walk through a town, city, state or country with a map in hand While visiting specific locations marked on the map a written story is told about family members activity on location while walking from one spot to the other.

Too better understand the impact of such a walk I recommend following a family on such a journey. The movie is entitled "We bought a Zoo". A true story about a family that had a dire need to connect, so they did something rather odd. They bought a zoo. Learning to work together they found a way to mend their lives and recover by trying to find their place in this new life of their own choosing. Finally, the children of this young family are brought full circle as they walk through a restaurant and hear a touching story of how their father and mother met and fell in love. 

Guided Tour

The Walk of Your Life gives kids a fresh opportunity to connect or reconnect with family in a way they may never have imagined. It's an opportunity to merge the present with the past and explain how the relationship of their parents or grandparents came to be. It helps them draw closer to their family while hearing their story brought to life in a way they never before experienced.  It's like opening a book rich with family history, self-discovery, nostalgia, and felicity. 

The Walk of Your Life may be in the form of a guided tour of the places in town that touched the lives of the family in very special ways. Perhaps a walk that follows the weekly routine of the grandparents and parents in the family. 

Map The Course


Draw a map of all the spots you or your parents frequented. Next, locate the schools they attended. The one spot they met. Now locate fond places they liked to frequent and things they did while there. 

Draw lines connecting each spot together progressively as the relationship advances from acquaintance to friendship to companionship to partnership and commitment.

Tell The Story

Tell a story about a specific experience that occurred then and there. Stories that help define that moment in time. Recreate the atmosphere, sounds, smells, activities, feelings and nostalgia of the times spent there. Talk about how the relationship grew stronger, how and why feeling ran deeper and ascended to new levels.

On Location

Enter the store, parlor or office. Explain what took place there and how that experience defined the course their lives.  Perhaps it was a bookstore or mom and pop shop with the best pizza in town sizzling in the oven. Freshly baked sweet cakes and cookies that melt in your mouth.  A table in the corner of a diner where mom was asked out on the first date. A photo booth where dad and mom took their first silly photo together. A water fountain where mom and dad sat, talked and fell in love. The place they were wed. The first apartment they lived in. The window of a room in the house in which the children were conceived and so on. 

The Walk of Your Life can conclude with dinner at a family restaurant that may one day be a part of the map the kids will make when they take their children on the walk of their lives.

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Planning a family reunion?  Fimark's Family Reunion Planner. Everything you need to plan a wonderful family reunion.

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

The #10GoodThings Awareness October Project

10 Good Things October Awareness Project

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Pow! Crack! Rumble! The sound of a powerful electrical storm overhead often signals dread. And yet we love to watch it from a safe distance.  But there comes a time when you want and need it to stop. It's October. The 10th month of the year. The atmospheric and political climate is turbulent. Lord knows we could all use some really good news. But how do you fight off a storm?

Imagine a storm that with every crack and rumble electrifies everything and everyone it touches for good. Healing, uniting, comforting and providing sustenance, covering and shelter for billions. Inspired by the old adage "There is more happiness in giving than in receiving," and the 10th month of October infographic published in our previous article October Awareness Observances and Factoids, a new 10GoodThings October Awareness Project movement has evolved that can electrify a world of people to do good for all. A 10th-month movement worthy of going totally and completely viral.

Create A Storm Of Awareness By Doing 10 Good Things

We want to create a powerful counter storm of good and considerate acts that crosses lines of race, gender, creed, ethnicity and all national boundaries with acts that counter the storm of division, dissension, depression and desperation that has marked this month unlike any other time in our history. How can you create this storm of good? By doing 10 good things for 10 good people.

#10GoodThings Awareness Hashtag Campaign

During the month of October add hashtag #10GoodThings to a new or already viral video of someone performing one of 10 good things, acts of personal consideration that impacts the lives of the receiver for good and turns things around for victims of disaster, prejudice, and crime.  Acts that help them see they are not forgotten, and help the world to see just how good people from all walks of life aspire to be.

Need some inspiration for writing out your list of 10 Good Things? Take a look at the October Awareness Month infographic at October Awareness Observances and Factoids,
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Tuesday, October 18, 2016

October Awareness Observances Factoids and Infographic

National October Awareness Factoids

There is always something historic happening. Milestones that will be etched on the walls of observance for centuries to comes. Consider these great factoids regarding the month of October.

The birth flower for October is the calendula. The birthstones for October are the tourmaline and the opal. It was October 12, 1492, Christopher Columbus landed in America. Centuries later on October 7, 1816, the Washington (first double-decked steamboat) arrived at New Orleans. October 31, 1864, marked the day Nevada became the 36th state of the United States. Decades later on October 1, 1896, free rural delivery of mail started in the United States.

The first presidential telecast address from the White House occurred on October 5, 1947, by Harry S. Truman.  On October 4, 1957, the first artificial satellite was launched by the Soviet Union.

October climate conditions make it the ideal month for outdoor/indoor festivals and fairs. It's a good month to take nature hikes and collect dried foliage for reefs, dried flower arrangements, and other kinds of home decor.

October Awareness Observances

National AIDS Awareness Month
National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
National Family History Month
National Pizza Month
National Clock Month
National Computer Learning Month
National Roller Skating Month
Adopt a Dog Month
National Adopt a shelter pet Month
National Apple Month
National Applejack Month
National Car Care Month
National Cosmetology Month
National Stamp Collecting Month
National Dessert Month
National Pretzel Month
National Pickled Pepper Month
National Popcorn Popping Month
National Sarcastic Month
National Seafood Month
National Kitchen and Bath Month
National Vegetarian Awareness Month
National Polish History Month
National Child Health Month
National Pasta Month
Nation Pork Month
National Cookie Month
National Health Literacy Month
National Diversity Awareness Month
National Domestic Violence Awareness Month
National Depression Education & Awareness Month
National Crime Prevention Month
National Disability Employment Awareness Month
Dinosaur Month
Eat Country Ham
Hunger Awareness Month
National Communicate with Your Kid Month
Fantasy Month
National Pharmacy Month
Do-It-Yourself Month
National Dental Hygiene Month
National Orthodontic Month
Consumer Information Month
World Chocolate Awareness Month

Best Life Ever's October National Observances


#OctoberAwarenessMonth
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November Observances Countdown Chart

November Monthly Observances

November is just around the corner. It's time to get a head start taking advantage of November observances. Look over and share this November Monthy Observances List and consider how you can show awareness and support of important social, cultural and health issues in the weeks to come.

National Adoption Month
I Am So Thankful Month
National Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month
National American Indian Heritage Month
American Heritage Month
Aviation Month
Child Safety and Protection Month
Family Stories Month
National Family Caregiver Month
Drum Month
Good Nutrition Month
Hunger Awareness Month
Latin American Month
National Diabetes Awareness Month
National Epilepsy Month
National Raisin Bread Month
National Red Ribbon Month
Peanut Butter Lover's Month
National Adoption Month
National Model Railroad Month
Lung Cancer Awareness Month
National Stamp Collecting
National Georgia Pecan Month
National Healthy Skin Month
National Hospice Month
National Marrow Awareness Month
National Family Literacy Month
National Sleep Comfort Month
British Appreciation
International Creative Child and Adult Month
National Pepper Month
Real Jewelry Month
National Run Away Prevention Month
Diabetic Eye Disease Month
Model Railroad Month
Freezing Weather Month
Anything Can Happen Month
National Family Caregivers Month
National Hospice Month
National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
National Employer Support Month
Family Reunion Planning Month




Best Life Ever's November National Observances

Best Life Ever! November Awareness Month Chart





Observance Tips

A great way to share in the observance is to look up award-winning documentaries on the subject. Make a point to watch one documentary a day. Another is to attend festivals, fairs and discussion groups that include presentations and activities based on the observance. Buy and read a book based on the observance. Watch a YouTube video featuring observance tips and ideas.

Annual Family Reunion Planning Month 
Introduced by Fimark Family Event Planners Group, Annual Family Reunion Planning Months is another November observance. Its objective is to encourage meaningful family interaction that empowers our children and gives them identity and greater support on the family level with a view to inspiring achievement and growth in all areas of life.  This month enables reunion planners to start planning the next family reunion well in advance.


"Generations pass like leaves fall from our family tree. 
Each season new life blossoms and grows benefiting from
the strength and experience of those who went before."


That's what family reunions are really about. Benefiting from the strength and experience of those who came before us.  This is the time of year to start your family reunion projects and bind family bonds closer than ever before.

Rallying The Family!

How can you get every family member involved? Start at home. Ask each household member for suggestions about fun, meaningful, and exciting family reunion activities.

The Fun Factor Test

Hold a trial run of suggested activities to test the fun factor. Start interviews and collect poems, recipes and amazing stories as told by each member of the family three or more generations deep.

Tribal Edutainment

Make a video family history documentary. Include photos, videos, heirlooms, music and stories unique to the tribe. Most of all, enjoy Family Reunion Planning Month.

Early Bird Head Start

The early bird gets the worm! If you want to have a memorable family reunion that folks will be talking about years to come, start planning now. Many planners make use of fall and winter observances and holidays to announce the event, rally the family, take and collect photos and video in preparation for the event.  That's why we selected November as annual Family Reunion Planning Month. Watch this video and get a head start planning your most memorable family reunion.


Annual Family Reunion Planning Month


Looking for great activity ideas, planning tips, event organization, and management worksheets? Fimark's Family Reunion Planner book and Fimark's Family Reunion Social web app has that and more. Get details and quick access from this blog's Profiles section.