Celebrating Together

Time to Leave the Comfort Zone – Sukkot Meditation – Part 1

Our family has been celebrating Sukkot*, and other biblical fast and feast days, since my oldest was 3. That makes this year the 17th year that we have celebrated this feast. When I remembered this morning that Sukkot was about start, I did not feel the joy and excitement of […]

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Thoughts from the Sukkah

  Scenes from our Sukkah It’s the time of year when those with an eye to keeping ancient feast days are finding a way to live outside for a week, in remembrance of the time when God dwelt with his people in the wilderness. Usually, when our family does this […]

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42 photos/reasons why I love my husband – Celebrating 14 years

Moving overseas, they say, can be one of the hardest things to put a marriage through. I’d have to say that they are right. Aaron and I have probably had more fights this past year since moving to Thailand than in the previous 6 years combined. He rocks the tribal […]

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7 Quick Takes – So much to say

Little bits from around the web that I thought worth sharing. I wanted to include pictures but my internet out here in the Thailand boonies is so slow tonight that’s it’s not going to happen. 1. Modesty, I Don’t Think it Means What You Think it Means Probably everyone has […]

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A Hobbit Party For the Boy

I have been wanting to tell you all about the Boy’s Hobbit party. However, since I forgot to take many photos, given all the other things going on, I was waiting until people, like my talented sister in law, got me some of the photos they took of the party […]

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Of the Father’s Love Begotten

After a super fun day of preparing for and hosting the girl’s double, we were both born the week before Christmas, birthday party, I was telling Brenda that I had wanted to make a video for Neil Kramer’s Annual Blogger Christmahanukwanzaakah Online Holiday Concert. But since the deadline for entries […]

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The $2 day challenge

“We’re going to eat for only $2 each for the whole day tomorrow!” I announce. “Do you think we can do that?” “Yeah,” the boy exclaims, “I think we can.” “If we stick to basics and don’t have treats or things like butter I think we won’t even go hungry.” […]

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St. Nicholas Day – How our family deals with Santa Claus

If you’ve been reading here a long time you would know that we try to avoid the standard commercialism of the Christmas season. [Ideas for a non Commercial Christmas] We don’t exchange Christmas gifts, for example. We try to find a way that our family can be a gift to […]

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Maybe I AM a Hypocrite

He makes me wonder these days if I’m a hypocrite. We’re standing there in the dining room, his face flushed and his voice urgent, “But mom, didn’t you say that there are kids who don’t have any toys that would be happy to have these?” For years I have fed […]

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The Labor of Advent

We sit and sort through tiny beads, searching for the right ones.  Stringing letters one by one we name the nameless, the forgotten, and abandoned, and beaten child. They are known. We know them. We send them proof. Cards and letters written specifically to each of them by the youth […]

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