by jphilo | Nov 14, 2014 | How to Use the Caregiver's Notebook, Vlog Series
Welcome back for Episode 2 of The Caregiver’s Notebook vlog series. This video provides ideas and tips about how to fill out the emergency information section of The Caregiver’s Notebook: An Organizational Tool and Support to Help You Care for Others. In it, you’ll also learn how to keep the information up-to-date and how to create emergency packets that can accompany your loved one wherever he or she goes.
Who Needs The Caregiver’s Notebook?
The Caregiver’s Notebook to meet the needs of those dealing with a wide variety of caregiving situations. Here are some of them:
- Adult children caring for aging parents.
- Spouses caring for husbands or wives.
- Parents caring for babies, toddlers, young children, and teens with special needs.
- Parents caring for adult children with special needs.
- Parents caring for typical babies from birth through age 3.
- Senior citizens in good health who want to have their affairs in order for whoever will care for them in case of sudden illness or accident.
So if you or someone you know is in any of those situations, the video below is for you! After all, emergencies can happen to anyone at anytime. So once you complete your loved one’s emergency information and create packets, you can do the same thing for yourself–with or without another notebook.
To watch this How To episode, click on over to DifferentDream.com.
by jphilo | Nov 7, 2014 | How to Use the Caregiver's Notebook
In case you didn’t hear the big YAHOO at our house on November 1, Discovery House Publishers has officially released The Caregiver’s Notebook: An Organizational Tool and Support to Help You Care for Others. With the cat book officially out of the bag and caregivers can actually purchase the book online and at bookstores, it’s time to offer even more support.
What kind of support? How about a vlog series that walks caregivers through each section of the notebook? Think of it as week-by-week virtual hand holding sessions that allow you to complete the notebook at your own pace and according to your own schedule. Today’s vlog introduces the series. It offers information about what’s in the notebook, who it’s for, and when to begin using it. That gives those who don’t yet have the notebook time to purchase it before the next vlog post goes live next Friday. Sound good? Then let’s get started.
To watch the first Caregiver’s Notebook episode, click on over to DifferentDream.com.
by jphilo | Jul 7, 2014 | Book Updates
Today’s post is one of those cases where the picture’s worth a thousand words. The picture above comes from the Discovery House 2014 Fall Trade Catalog, which was in our mailbox on July 3. It’s arrival started our Independence Day weekend…and the promotional chatter about my latest book with a bang!
I won’t rehash what’s in the The Caregiver’s Notebook. You can read that for yourself in the not quite thousand words that accompany the picture above. If you like what you read and think others will too, pass the information along to your favorite local book store.
As the copy says, the notebook comes out until November, just in time to be the perfect gift for caregivers. It’s also a good gift for the 50+ crowd and those who wants to gather medical and legal materials in one place, so they and their loved ones can easily access it in case it’s needed.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I must engage in some serious celebrating.
Happy Dance! Happy Dance! Happy Dance! Happy Dance! Happy Dance! Happy Dance!
by jphilo | Mar 24, 2014 | Book Updates
Though I usually try to avoid cross pollination between DifferentDream,com, my blog for parents of kids with special needs, and this blog, today’s post is an exception. Because I can’t wait until there’s a day open in the DifferentDream schedule to show off the cover of The Caregiver’s Notebook.
Several months ago, the editor at Discovery House Publishers emailed an image of the cover, and I loved it. But it had to stay under wraps until the copyright was secured. That happened last week, when the editor gave the okay to take it to school for show and tell share it via social media.
So here I am, showing off the cover for the world to see. And telling everyone that this three year caregiver’s planner and organizer is slated for release by Discovery House in November of 2014 and will retail for $24.99. It’s flexible design means it can be used by those caring for aging loved ones, children and adults with special needs, and those caring for anyone with medical conditions, too.
More details will be forthcoming in the months before the release date. But for now, would you play along and leave a comment about how sweet the new baby is? This mama is mighty proud!
by jphilo | Aug 20, 2013 | Top Ten Tuesday
This weekend, the deep freeze in the basement finally got cleaned. Here are 10 reasons I knew it was time for the dirty job.
10. You’re electricity bill is infinitesimally higher, and the utility company says defrosted freezers are more efficient. Your freezer has so much frost, cleaning it should prove the assertion.
9. Every time you open the freezer, you imagine your mother shaking her head and shuddering as she says, “Tsk, tsk, tsk.”
8. You’re limping because a frozen hunk of something fell out and hit your bare foot.
7. You find yourself reframing the job as an opportunity to do a stretch glove inventory.
6. Your deep freeze contains more frost than food.
5. You’ve been moving “defrost the freezer” from one to do list to the next since March.
4. One of your ceramic pie pans is missing, and you need to find out if it’s lost or if you made a pie in a fit of industriousness months ago and forgot about it.
3. You bought $8.00 a pound steaks to grill for your anniversary and can’t remember eating it with your husband.
2. You know the freezer has plenty of room to freeze cheap blueberries, but a quick look makes you doubt what you know.
1. Your husband’s home and says he’ll help you.
How do you know it’s time to defrost your freezer?
