Family Vacation

When it comes to family holidays Karisma Hotels has something for everyone from adults only to family holidays to naturist holidays.

Karisma Hotels is a collection of properties built along the pristine white sandy beaches on the Mexican Riviera Maya. These luxuriously appointed resorts cater for your every need from their gourmet dining to butler service on the beach , a soft towel service to tanning products They also offer a range of activites which include deep-sea fishing, cenote diving or meditation classes and much more.

Whatever you are looking for in a family vacation Karisma Hotels have something for you. Their family orientated Azul Beach Hotel doesn't forget the parents while still catering for the children with everything from baby milk heaters to kid sized bath robes.

For your next vacation remember the meaning of Karisma is "divine favour" and Karisma Hotels offer you a truly "Divine Favoured" holiday.

Articles You Will Love

If you are a woman who likes to read the stories of other women's daily struggles, trials and tribulations as well as their joys and triumphs I would highly recommend a visit to Ann's blog. It is full of wonderful, well written articles and photos that Ann has taken.

One of the videos on AnnOnandOn (the name of Ann's blog. Don't you just love it?) turned on the water works for me. Once again I thought of those wonderful women in my life who had fought the battle with cancer and the ones who won and the ones who lost and my tears were for them. We all know someone who has been a winner and someone who lost despite their heroic struggle. When will they find a cure for this awful affliction?

AnnOnandOn is fun and entertaining to read so pop on over and take a peep. I am sure you will love it as much as I do and maybe, like me, you will be a tad envious of her wonderful lifestyle.

Realise Your Potential

I have often wondered why some people succeed in life and others fail miserably. Why does one person get offered promotions when another who works hard and is good at their job is passed over?

Recently I started reading motivational books by people like Paul Hanna, Louise Hays, Dr Joe Vitale and I also read The Power Of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale and How To Win Friend and Influence People by Dale Carnegie and it brought me to the realisation that it isn't just hard work that brings success.

What brings success to some and not to others is the persons belief in themselves and their total commitment to their own success. These people greet every new day with enthusiasm, ready to meet and overcome every challenge, they believe totally in themselves. Paul Hanna explains this in his books Believe and Achieve and You Can Do It.

People who drag themselves reluctantly out of bed every morning, dreading the very thought of going to work, will never succeed regardless of how hard they work or how good they are at their jobs.

The thing I learned from all this reading is that the potential to achieve great things is in us all but most of us never learn how to utilise that potential. My new post new year resolution is to realise my full potential with a positive, confident outlook on life and I hope you will do the same.

When Fake Is Not Good Enough

I have always loved jewelry and if I could afford it I would be dripping with gold and precious gems but I'm afraid I have champagne tastes on a beer income and beautiful jewelry was simply out of my price range. Most of my jewelry was fake with a couple of noted exceptions like my engagement and eternity rings and a lovely diamond pendant I saved for a year to afford. Of course the fakes did not fool anyone. The fact is they were very ordinary.

Recently I found Holsted Jewelers and was amazed, not only by their beautiful Designer Jewelry but also by their very reasonable prices.

If you want beautiful jewelry that you will be proud to wear at a price you can afford and that will make your friends eyes pop, then you should take a look at Holsted Jewelry. You will not find Jewelry like this anywhere else. Holsted's also have a wonderful and affordable range of gifts and accessories that will delight you. Visit Holsteds Jewelry now, I know you will love it.

New Years Resolution

It is almost 2009 and most of us will be making those infamous New Years Resolutions that we seldom, if ever keep, so what will yours be this year? Will you make a resolution to lose weight, give up smoking, get a new job or maybe take a special holiday. Whatever your New Years resolution is how will you ensure you keep it.

My New Years resolution is to buy a motor home and travel around Australia. This is what I have wanted to do for many years and have worked and saved to make it happen, so, fingers crossed, hand on heart, fear stifled and determination fueled, 2009 is the year I am going to make it happen.

This is a huge step for me. You see I am 66 years old and alone. To do this I need to sell up, find the right motor home for me (and pray I don't end up with a lemon) at a price I can afford. It means cutting myself loose from all that is familiar, my friends and my family and striking out on my own, virtually into the unknown. All this at a time when many people are settling comfortably into their nest of family and familiarity.

When I think about this huge adventure I feel a mixture of emotions, not least among them is fear. But I also feel excitment and anticipation but there are so many decisions to be made that at times I feel overwhelmed.

So why aren't I nestling into my comfort zone? Because when I am sitting in a nursing home dribbling and losing control of my bodily functions I don't want to look back and regret I didn't do it when I could. Because every day of our lives is a gift and we need to seize every opportunity and live our dreams.

Remember Carpe Diem? Seize the day? That is what I intend to do. Live it, enjoy it and ring every drop out of every day of my life.

When I keep my New Years Resolution I plan to write a blog and call it The Wandering Star (which is what my motor home will be called) and I want to write about my journey, the places I visit, the people I meet along the way and their stories and about anything else that I feel could be of interest to my readers. When the time comes I hope you will join me on my journey around my beautiful Australia.

May the joy of Christmas fill your life every day of 2009
and bring to you and your family a
year of peace love and fulfillment

Christmas Expectations

So here it is again. Christmas!! The kids are bouncing off the walls, you've still got a mountain of shopping to do and then there is all that food to cook and decorating to do and on and on it goes. Is it any wonder that some people get very depressed at Christmas.

For some people, the pressures and expectations of Christmas push them beyond what they can cope with and they slide into depression. Christmas sadness is very real.

We all want to have a lovely, loving Christmas with our families but often this doesn't happen. The expense, the extra work, the demands all become too much and all we want to do is curl up in a ball and disappear until it is over. Tensions rise and all too often families who are loving and caring all year round find themselves snapping at each other and getting angry and frustrated.

I think the best way to cope with Christmas is to lower our expectations. We are bombarded with what we should be giving, eating, doing and feeling and we feel inadequate. Then of course there are those feel good, everything turns out wonderful in the end movies that make us feel even more inadequate.

Christmas is about being with your family and friends it is not about how much a gift costs or a feast fit for a king so let us not lose sight of that. Do the things you all enjoy doing together. Lower your expectations and raise your enjoyment but most of all teach your children the true meaning of Christmas so they don't grow up feeling let down at Christmas.

Having said all that I wish everyone a truely happy Christmas filled with love and laughter.

How is Your Dental Health

I have always been scared of going to the dentist. Of course I am not alone in that department. Who likes a perfect stranger sticking their fingers and other nasty things in their mouth? You would have to be a bit odd wouldn't you?

I once went for almost two weeks with and abscessed tooth, enduring dreadful toothache rather than endure a few seconds pain at the dentist. Yep, I know, stupid really, but at the time and up until today I didn't realise how stupid and dangerous my actions were.

Today I visited the Daytona Daily News site and the first thing that jumped off the page at me was 12-year-old Deamonte Driver of Maryland died last year following an untreated toothache. This article entitled Will a Child's Death Change Dental Policy made me realise the risks we are all taking when we avoid going to the dentist. It also made me realise that some people, especially disadvantaged children in some US states, are unable to access the dental care that is vital to their health due to the short comings in the state-federal health insurance program that only funds around 50% of what dentists charge.

If you would like to read this article you will find it at Daytona Daily News. I am sure it will open your eyes to how hard some people in our affluent societies are really doing it.

World AIDS Day

December 1st was world AIDS day and I guess most people did not even give it a thought. I think the 33 million people world wide who are living with HIV/AIDS (AIDS.Gov) may have thought about it and felt deep regret that they had not taken precautions before it was too late.

I have written articles about the research regarding circumcision and aids in the past. If you would like to read then go to benefits of circumcision and to snip or not to snip.

When AIDS was first diagnosed we were bombarded with advertising and I still shudder when I remember the grim reaper ads. They would scare anyone into abstinence. Now we never hear anything about the explosion of this disease.

As parents it is vital that we teach out children about safe sex. Most young people today know about AIDS but what they don't think about is that it cannot be cured. If you want to educate your child about HIV/AIDS but don't know where to start then go to AIDS.Gov and go through the information there with your children. Perhaps it will save their life.

Home Health Care Supplies

When someone in our family is diagnosed with a condition that requires them to have any kind of medical equipment our first question is , where do we get what we need.

AllegroMedical was founded in 1996 and in is one of the largest online retailers of medical supplies and equipment in the United States. Whether you need diabetic test strips, a blood pressure monitor or a shower chair Allegro Medical has it and much more. they are servicing over 1million customers with over 55,000 products under 50 categories. To find the product you need you can shop by condition, category or brand.

In 1998 Allegro expanded into Exercise and Fitness Equipment, Maternity and Baby supplies and Nutritional Dietary Supplements.

Whatever you need in lifestyle products you will find it online at Allegro Medical.