Author Archives: admin Yesterday I received the SWEETEST thing in my mailbox from a photographer in Asheville, North Carolina. I can’t believe I’ve never met this sweet family in person because we have so much in common and have kept up with each other for a couple of years now through photography—our hearts connected when we discovered we […] *Be sure to turn music down/off at the bottom of the page before watching. A great video on transracial adoption. LOVE THIS! I will have to post this sometime! Okay Andrea! Not that it is AT ALL about me or AT ALL about you but isn’t it nice to know at some point down this beautiful road we just might be a bit “cooler” in the eyes of our little ET’s babes! I’m good with that. LOVED THIS too! This kid…he’s just precious isn’t he! And I have to say…I think he’s cooler because of it too. I LOVE the advice HE gave! VERY good and important to be around other families that LOOK like yours, other kids that look like him, and to have other kids in the neighborhood with diversity too. Great info here! I like this! Andrea, I have recently met your sister through our kids’ school and some other things we have in common. She directed me to your blog because we are also adopting from Ethiopia. We have three bio kids (girl, boy, girl) and are leaving to bring home our baby boy on February 5! Love this post…oh – if I could be like this mom when my precious baby is grown. Wow. Love your blog!  We got a new chandelier over the holidays and FINALLY got it hung this weekend…and well, you have to do SOMETHING with the box…I used the chandelier box and an old carseat box that I was sure we could use one day—and now it’s officially been used as a pirate ship! Complete with a looking […] Andrea is it just me or are you a bit excited for the summer months to be upon us?Hee hee:) Thanks for posting todays lesson. We are studying “Fearless” by Max Lucado in our small group so your message today ties in perfectly:) love the little pirate! and yes, pirates have to be bad! LOL! understand that…I hate it when kids play shooting games…I’m the mom who says let’s love each other…how do you love each other when you are playing bad guys/good guys? reconciliation at the end maybe?? how adorable is the “bad pirates” box and sign! The pic of the little man in the hat is so adorable too! Charisa–I’m with you…I do NOT get the wrestling with God part of this story in today’s reading. I understand our prayers should be like wrestling as we plead…but I don’t get wrestling with God or that whole part of the story. Scratched my head on that one. Would love more insight if someone has some! AND YEESSSSSSSS…we obviously need some outside time Shannon! Don’t you forget how EASY it is to send the kids outside where they play for HOURS on end. Now I’m being put to work inside doing things like…pirate ships:). AND how does one get your 14 month old to wear a pirate hat AND an eye patch?! Can you say—candy corn left over from Halloween? Disgust I know…but it worked:) Love your new chandelier! I wouldn’t add shades but that’s just me! I like the rustic feel of it! I feel like someone wrote a really good explination of the whole wrestling with God part of this reading but I can’t remember who it was…Beth Moore maybe? If I figure it out I will link it. I also think it’s interesting that you hear people talk about how horrible today’s society is with all of the crazy things that go on then you open up the bible and see all this: Dinah getting rape and Levi and Simeon killing a whole people group and kidnapping the women and children to keep as slaves, and that’s just in 3 chapters. It’s just so clear that man has had a HUGE sin problem from the very beginning, once Adam and Eve ate the apple it was all over. Sin didn’t slowly creep in and just in the last 100 years exploded it has always been here and it has always been bad. It’s something has humans that we have to keep in check constantly, we have to be fully submerged in God’s love and constantly on our knees to even come close to overcoming it. LOVE the pirates…I am sure they are good pirates 🙂 Love the chandelier. On the readings…I just am overcome with the thoughts of how others say the Bible does not relate to today’s times…HELLO! It is all there…what happened then…happens now. Same sin, same ugliness, same curiosity…SAME GOD, SAME NEED FOR A SAVIOR. Thank you God for our Savior. Candy corn….good choice. TicTacs are my secret weapon! (And I go with white…no red/orange drizzle in all my Easter pics!) I was just blown away while reading last night. Again, and again and again, God uses such ignoble persons for His noble purposes. What a FAITHFUL, PATIENT God we serve! How does He keep His wrath at bay with generation after generation falling so far off of the ship. It also struck me how Abraham, issac and Jacob are continually setting up monuments, memorials to God, to remember His promises and faithfulness. How easily we forget the great wonders and answered prayers of the Lord! I love it without shades! And the pirate ship looks like SOOO much fun! oh, i love the pirate ship..my kids need one of those 🙂 I need to start looking for some boxes around the house…kj Genesis 20:25 – 31:55 Today’s reading continues with Jacob beginning to want to go back to his own land. TWENTY years he has been at Laban’s land working–slaving–for both of his daughters (14 years for the girls) and he’s about to work 6 more for his flock. Laban and Jacob make an agreement–Laban keeps the […] First of all how cute are those pics! I love the little grocery cart! We love bananas in our household too! What a cute face the little guy made eating snow! I have a question, where did you get those Go, seek, love shirts? I LOVE them! have a great day! April–you can get those cutie pie t-shirts here: http://duboisadoption.com/t-shirt_fundraiser.html AND they now have sweatshirts too:) Good reading today..I also felt more compassionate toward Leah…maybe because I have also felt her unloved feelings…you are right …we do need to pray for the Rachels in our lives and think of why they do what they do..the insecurities behind it. I had a very different thinking on Jacob’s with the sheep…always love how God does that! …My reading didn’t jump out that he was deliberating streaking the sheep…but that herdsmen believed vivid impressions at mating (the branch) would influence offspring…hmmmm….I will have to go in an research that…back to those old hebrew words! LOVE diving into the Word with you! Charisa…that makes complete sense! I think that sounds right and I remember reading something about that years ago. I need a shepherd expert right now;). I have a friend doing a study on shepherds so I need to ask her what book she is reading! Love the pics of the kids in the store. So cute. Paul’s parents were here this weekend, so we are going to makeup our missed reading tonight. You are so right about the bananas….a home can never have too many! Hey….we like to put them on a popscicle stick, dip in melted chocolate and freeze…yummy! And, Evangeline also loves to take her cart to the store. More than once I have come home and discovered I (or she!) have bought something I had no idea about 🙂 Praying for your approval letter! Loving reading through with others 🙂 More drama! Laban & Jacob have a horrible relationship. Jacob is afraid of confrontation it seems. He shows this over & over. Happy 10 day anniversary of reading through chronologically with me in 2010! 10 days…and how closer to the Lord do you already feel as you commited to read daily to know Him more?! Isn’t it amazing what the Lord does in your mind AND heart when you saturate them with His Holy Word? I have […] |
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Love the book! I will have to look that one up! Also look up Tsion’s Life! Great book! Ab really enjoyed showing me things about his life in it.
Charisa…trying her best to focus on Jesus…but sometimes I feel like I need the horse eye cover things so I can’t see to the left or the right!
that is awesome adn so sweet of them to get that for you! we are hoping to find some good ugandan recipes to make for when we bring home our little one!
April–this book would have them! It’s features recipes from the WHOLE continent!!!
Loving the readings….and staying connected! 🙂
Ok girls, I’m reading along, but I was wondering which translation you guys are using, there are a lot of reading lists for different translations, and I was just curious if you all decided to use one particular one? If so can you let me know? I’m just now figuring out that you guys are discussing here! I love to study the Word with sisters in Christ!
Kim
Aww, you are so welcome! I think this dude is adopted too…I might be wrong. Did you see the other little thing that was in there? I forgot to wrap it so it might have gotten lost at the bottom of the package.
I CANNOT wait to meet you one day soon. I feel like I’ve known you for years. 😉
ASHER! You have to tell me what I missed in that package! I’m so not beyond diggin’ through some trash to find a treasure! And I can’t stand the thought of tossin’ a treasure. You just tell me what this momma is lookin’ for and I’ll put on rubber gloves;)
And Kim—we all are reading different versions I’m sure. We didn’t pick one…I’m pack and forth between NIV and Living.