New Habits in the New Year

New Habits in the New YearWell, it’s that time again. Even if you aren’t one to make a formal resolution for the new year, the changing of the calendar is always a time to reevaluate some of our habits. There are certain areas that many of us look at improving, reevaluating, or overhauling as the new year dawns.

We often examine our health–spiritual health, physical health, and relational health.

We wonder about our responsibilities–for our children, for our earth, for our finances.

Over the next eight days, you will find new posts each day relating to these key areas. We will have informational posts and–of course–giveaways! If you are interesting in participating in any of the giveaways, you will need to comment on each individual post, but please help us spread the word by doing a post on your blog, or putting the button in your sidebar. If you don’t have a blog, you can email some friends.

Come back every day between January 1 and January 8 for new giveaways. The winners will be announced January 9. This page will be kept updated with each giveaway, but you must enter each giveaway separately that you want to win:

Our first giveaway is the Busy Body Book Family Planner.
Our second giveaway is for three Minusbags totes.
The third giveaway offers two winners a Family Dinner Box of Questions.
Our fourth post announces two contests and advice on how to Squeeze in Breakfast.
Next, we have five copies of the book Growing Friendships to give away.
Is changing your eating on your list for the year? We are giving away a copy of The Ultimate Tea Diet.
Our seventh giveaway is the book How Strong Women Pray.
Our eighth post offers some parenting encouragement and a change to win a copy of Parenting Power in the Early Years.

This contest is now closed.  You can find the winners HERE. 

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89 Comments

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  3. Diane Perkins says:

    I would love this book, I am an avid tea drinker and love to learn more about teas

  4. Sabine Blanch says:

    Great, I love tea!

  5. Vickie McCoy says:

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    Wow this great a nice opportuinyt o experience this book i drink tea ll day especailly at night but i never knew about tea as a diet aid. i hope i win this i just started my diet for the new year too!So hopefully you pick me ..and i like to ass that i am glad to have found this website. it has so much info on it. i am going now to check out all the interesting facts and such that this site does have..thanks for the opportunity.
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  8. Lyn Chomiw says:

    I love tea and could really use this.

  9. Starla Brunson says:

    I would love to win the tea diet book. I already drink a lot of tea and I thought I needed to cut back on it. This changes everything! I don’t have a blog yet(guess one of my resolutions is to start one!) I am going to email everyone in my address book about the site.

  10. Sonya Haff says:

    Hello guys! I would love to win this organizer and could certainly put it to use with my four sons and our crazily busy lives! Thanks for all you do! : )

  11. I need this book!!!

  12. jeanne pellin says:

    The tea diet has me interested. I like tea and want to lose a few pounds – well maybe more like several.

  13. John Marshall says:

    very interesting

  14. Rhonda Petersen says:

    I love tea and I DEFINITELY need to lose weight. I would love a copy of this to see if it would work for me. Thanks

  15. Cyndi Loveless says:

    I would try this

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  18. This is just what I need. A helping hand to help me get started.

  19. I love tea, so that diet would be great for me.

  20. Darlene Levy says:

    Would green tea work as well, or is the caffeine in regular tea part of the “trick”?

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    I am having a difficult time with the code but I did blog about the contest….

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  32. heather h says:

    Ohhh, this is such fun! I’m totally in!

  33. We eat dinner as a family, that is a hard and fast rule in our home. This would be so fun.

  34. I am hoping to turn off the TV during dinner hour…these questions would be a great diversion for our transition.

  35. I’m in! I added the information on my blog.

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  37. I so need some organization in my life !!

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  39. Love that idea…busy moms need all the help they can get! 🙂

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  41. Adding it to the sidebar and doing a post right now…

  42. Hi … just discovered your website! Happy New Year! Great idea! Helping make the world a better place … sounds like a Sexy thing to do …

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  45. Just what my household needs!

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  47. Teri Meairs says:

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  53. sounds fun-please count me in!

  54. Katherine says:

    I a looking forward to this!! :)Kat

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  56. Patricia Smith says:

    wow a new year, a new start.

  57. Oh,I love contests!!Thanks for hosting such a great one!!

  58. stephanie rickert says:

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  61. put up the linkage – great timing, I had just finished editing a resolution post!

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  66. Lisa - The Scrap Princess says:

    I posted about this on my blog and can’t wait to participate! Sounds awesome!

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    I am planning to work on losing weight, spending more time in The Word and learning HTML, CSS and website design.

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    I am in the process of doing resolutions and goals. This is perfect for me 🙂

  75. Sounds wonderful! I’ve added it to my sidebar!

  76. Andrea Lynn says:

    Same resolutions again. But it is good to examine your life and try to start anew.

  77. This sounds like fun – have already placed your button on my sidebar….HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! 🙂

  78. Can’t wait for the fun to begin 🙂 Maybe I will be a lucky gal this time.