If you haven't figured it out yet, you should now know two things about me. Number one - I am a splurger (is that a real word?). What I mean, is that when it comes to my blog, I go in splurges. I will post a bunch of entries for several days, then it will be a week or two before I post something new. Number two - I am a procrastinator. I wait until the last minute to do things. I have had these Valentine's Day posts planned out for several days, but, notice, I have waited until Valentine's Day Eve to post them. Oh well, maybe some of you procrastinate like me and need some ideas, and if not, you can (and should) show your love all year long, not just on February 14th. The next couple of posts are ideas that I got from some of the homeschool newsletters that we receive. The third is a post about some of my Valentine's Day memories. I hope you can use some of the ideas, and I hope you enjoy the recollections.

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Being homeschoolers, we are members of several online homeschool groups and receive many homeschool newsletters. One of the newsletters sends out a weekly email called "Freebie Fridays". I look forward to it every week, because it really does have some valuable online freebies for homeschoolers. Some of them I have passed on to you in the past.

I don't know if I want to commit to doing it weekly, but I do like the idea of passing on some freebies to you from time to time that promote family values. Since I'm not sure how often it will be, I'm calling my posts "Families Again Freebies". It may be every week, it may be a couple of times a week, or I may skip a week or so, but I hope to be fairly regular in passing on free websites and ideas that will help you in your journey of raising kids.

In one of my early posts I talked about Behemoth.com. I lamented that they had daily free downloads but required a credit card to set up an account. Since that post, we switched banks and now have a check card that I was able to use to register. I love it! They have historical talks, talks on family values, educational downloads etc. ... all from a Christian worldview. I look forward every day to see what the next thing is that I can download. I have listened to many of them, and have not been disappointed yet. 

Another website that I have gone to a lot recently is DLTK crafts. Most of the crafts that were used for our Advent nights came from this site and I have even used some of their crafts for my Bible clubs. Everything is free and there is a ton of crafts that you can use for family craft nights. DTLK crafts is a family based site, so you shouldn't find anything too objectionable, but I did find one craft that involved Pokemon, so you do need to be careful.

Let me know what you think of these, and if you know of any good freebies that you think will meet this sites goal of strengthening the Christian family, please let me know and I may put it in a future FamiliesAgain Freebies post.

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