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Practicing Gratitude: Gifts 626 – 650
Still counting… are you? If so, leave me a comment so I can read your list! 626) one life CAN make an eternal difference 627) an amazing worshipful memorial service 628) knowing John while he was in his earthly body 629) Kathryn won the cookbook cover contest 630) Lacy’s red itchy belly seems to be…
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Adoption Celebration Banquet
Last night we attended a Bethany Adoption Services adoption celebration banquet, where we were asked to speak and share our adoption story. It went beautifully well, even with Ken and Lindsey and I all stealing the microphone from each other to tell parts of our story. 😉 The food was wonderful, and the facility was…
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Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 14
Oh my goodness gracious! I am sooooo glad we already planned to take next week off school because it is soooo necessary for all of our sanity! {sigh} By far the most meaningful thing we did this week was to celebrate the life of a dear young man who “graduated” to heaven last week after…
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I don’t “have to”
One day last week, we were doing a little shopping at Walmart. While Lindsey was looking for some new jeans, a girl randomly walked up and started talking to us. For some reason, people just do that to us on a pretty regular basis. Our friendly faces, perhaps? But I digress… Anyway, Lindsey went to…
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Practicing Gratitude: Gifts 601 – 625
Whatever will I do with my Mondays once I’ve counted my “one-thousand gifts”? It’ll still be quite some time before I’ve reached 1,000 so I have plenty of time to figure that out. Have you tried this? It’s amazingly hard, even with being naturally a pretty thankful person! Join the Gratitude Community at A Holy…
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Birthday tea for Mom
Friday was my mom’s birthday, so we celebrated with tea! It’s what we do. 🙂 But this time, I surprised her by inviting one of her dearest friends to tea, too! I don’t think I’ve ever tried to surprise my mom with anything like that before. She was delighted! Virginia has been a friend of…