Today, Laura at Texis in Africa offers a heart-wrenching post on the violence women face in the Congo. The second post comes from Beth at Bulletproof Living.
Jason Gray wrote one of today’s Forty Day Fast posts talking about his passion for World Vision and the reasons he is involved with them. It is seriously one of the best posts I have ever read. Today’s second post comes from The Reluctant Catepillar and highlights the International Justice Mission and the work they do to help victims of slavery, sexual exploitation and other forms of violent oppression.
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Today is the eighth day of the Forty Day fast. Today’s posts come from Licia at RHFH Rescue Center and Chris at Coffee with Chris. If you missed them over the weekend, here are the posts from Days 6 and 7:
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We had such a great weekend away! We spent some time at a friend’s cabin and had tons of fun. There were six families total and it is truly hard to describe the mix. We are all totally different but when we get together, it just works and hilarity is sure to ensue. There were times we were just plain silly and laughed til we cried, and other times where we talked for hours over some pretty serious stuff. The kids got to fish and swim and play and get dirty and just be kids. It was just a fun weekend spent with people we love. Despite the fact that I am super exhausted from staying up way too late every night and feel fat from eating WAY too much, my spirit is filled beyond capacity. Here are a few of the hundreds of pictures I took.
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Today’s posts are from Autumn at Hip Mama and Kelly at Life’s Painting.
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Everything’s all messed up!! This week, I’ll admit, I didn’t put a lot of thought or effort into planning our Family Fun Night. We are going out of town tomorrow so our normal night didn’t work out and I just didn’t get around to planning something until today at, gasp, 5:00pm. So, I stole borrowed from the creative genius of Heather Whittaker’s Backwards Night and threw together a crazy messed up meal! The table was set with all the dishes upside down, the chairs were all backwards, we drank “7-downs” and, of course, we ate dessert first!
Upside-down cupcakes
A 7-”down”
Toria digging into dessert first
Alden taking his sweet time
Noah, in the spirit of the evening, ate his upside-down
We didn’t have any backwards, upside-down, inside-out or otherwise activities planned, so we just went outside and had an impromptu waterfight, because, well, you just can’t go wrong with one of those!
It took Alden a little while to get what he was supposed to do with the water bottle. Guess he was thirsty!
Man down! Man down! Noah took full advantage!
The happy, drippy bunch
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Today’s post is by Brian Seay at A Simple Journey.
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with their hands in the cookie dough!
Today we made us some snickerdoodles. My kids always want to help with stuff like this, but my response to the ever-present question, “Can I help?” is almost always no. Why is that? Is it because I just assume that having kids involved will make everything more complicated, messy and time-consuming? Maybe. To the small extent that those things are true, it shouldn’t matter. They love it. Such simple things, like making cookies, can make their entire day. These are the things I need to remember on days where they are driving me crazy. At my wit’s end? Break out the cookie recipes! After all, the rewards are great!
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