Things that make me wonder...missing earrings and other stuff

Where were you?

Puzzle Pieces

epiphany
....not in the literal  january 6th sense, but in sort of a "duh" realization sense.... if you're in my family, one of my close friends or participated in my recent rant on facebook, you know that i hate the goody bag.  you know, that bag that usually consists of plastic junk and bad candy that your kids get when they go to birthday parties.  i am so put off by the sense of entitlement that

adoption pet peeves
slight rant alert: i don't typically get too caught up in political correctness, but sometimes i feel the need to say that all four of my children are "real" and "my own"...adoption doesn't make a child any less real (as in "is he your real child?") or any less my own (as in "i'm going to adopt after i have my own children first.").  i try to look past the ignorance of these types of statements

Our Advent Conspiracy Challenges
When our pastor approached Kevin and me about helping lead our church through Advent Conspiracy, I was immediately excited.  If you know me at all, the ideas surrounding Advent Conspiracy are what I'm all about...or, at the very least, I'm fully committed to the concepts even though I rarely experience success on a grand scale in any of these areas I'm going to share with you. So, as I flash

Follow You
 "This is the kind of fast day I'm after: to break the chains of injustice, get rid of exploitation in the workplace, free the oppressed, cancel debts. What I'm interested in seeing you do is: sharing your food with the hungry, inviting the homeless poor into your homes, putting clothes on the shivering ill-clad, being available to your own families. Do this and the lights will turn on,

Reclaiming Christmas
...this is probably the first of many posts on Advent Conspiracy and I'm really hoping that it will prove to be a very interractive topic where we can all learn from one another and encourage each other to rethink and reclaim Christmas. I posted this video last year around Christmas with every intention of implementing the ideas presented here in my own family.   I suppose I started off ok, but