Friday, November 28, 2008

Happy Thanksgiving!

Dear Hazel,


Today was a wonderful day! I spent the day with 10 of your cousins and 9 of your aunts and uncles. 

That does not include the other 6 cousins and 4 aunts and uncles that live far away. 

I created a Thanksgiving Treasure Hunt for the all the kids. They had to look for things like bark, oak leaves, bird feathers, flat rocks and all kinds of other cool things. Once they found them they had to create a forest on a paper plate with all their treasures. 

Then we made turkey cookies with sugar cookies as the base, coated with frosting, candy corn for feathers, sno caps for eyes, and licorice for the gobbler. 

I look forward to the day that you can run and play with your cousins. 

I hope and pray (very hard) that next year you and I will be a lot closer than we are today. 

Love, 
Mommy
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Sunday, November 9, 2008

Please Join Me …

Rethink Christmas with me.

What do I mean?

The story of Christ’s birth is a subversive story of an upside-down kingdom. It’s a story of promise, hope, and a revolutionary love that is still changing the world to this day. So, what happened? What was once a time to celebrate the birth of a savior has somehow turned into a season of stress, traffic jams, and shopping lists. And when it’s all over, many of us are left with presents to return, looming debt that will take months to pay off, and this empty feeling that we somehow missed its purpose.

Is this what we really want out of Christmas?

What if Christmas became a world-changing event again by turning our focus back to the birth of Christ? What could happen to your family if this focus was celebrated in loud, bold and totally unexpected ways? What if you could actually trade your season of stress for a season celebration and unbelievable memories with your friends and family? What if all of this could save a life at the same time? It can. http://www.adventconspiracy.org/

Three years ago I made the decision to rethink Christmas. 

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