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Our Journey to Africa: #Blessed?
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Our Journey to Africa. The adventures of an adopted family. Friday, July 24, 2015. Or, to be more tech-savvy: #blessed. (the young people on my trip to Swaziland were sweet enough to help me try to be cool last week. They are the best). I have a real problem with this word. I don't think we fully understand what it means. I did a quick search on Twitter and FB for "#blessed" and this is what I got:. Great day at the beach! Look at this cool thing my kid did! Picture of me looking pretty} #blessed. Just a...
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Our Journey to Africa: Justin Bieber is a Criminal... and other things that happened this week.
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Our Journey to Africa. The adventures of an adopted family. Tuesday, May 12, 2015. Justin Bieber is a Criminal. and other things that happened this week. My 1st grader went on a field trip yesterday and I wasn't able to drive. We don't have buses at our school so she drove with another mom. And it's always funny to hear how it goes when your kids have spent some time in a different environment. This morning in the car:. Allyn: Mom, my favorite singer is Selena Gomez. What does she sing? Whenever we label...
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Our Journey to Africa: April 2015
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Our Journey to Africa. The adventures of an adopted family. Tuesday, April 28, 2015. Do you know all these names? Facebook is a tricky place. For the longest time, I tried to keep my posts happy and lighthearted with pictures of the kids and nice things. And most of the time, I try to stick to that. But with so much going on around us, sometimes I do want to use social media to support a cause or highlight an issue. Trayvon Martin - February 2012. Jonathan Ferrell - September 2013. Eric Garner - July 2014.
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Our Journey to Africa: the BIG fundraising post!
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Our Journey to Africa. The adventures of an adopted family. Monday, September 20, 2010. The BIG fundraising post! I am SO excited! We are about to start our. GIANT fundraiser for our adoption! I started doing research on grants, loans, and fundraisers and when I found the Both Hands site with Lifesong for Orphans I immediately knew we had found our fundraiser! So here it is! I was (and still am) super uncomfortable about asking for money to help us with this adoption. But we are estimating that it is...
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Our Journey to Africa: Why Christians Should be AGAINST the Religious Freedom Restoration Act
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Our Journey to Africa. The adventures of an adopted family. Wednesday, April 1, 2015. Why Christians Should be AGAINST the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. In case you aren't hearing any news these days (happens to me sometimes): many states are enacting laws to protect the religious freedoms of individuals and/or businesses. My own state has one coming through right now. It's called the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). Sounds great, right? Jesus loves me. He loves me when I'm awesome: whe...
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Our Journey to Africa: Do you know all these names?
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Our Journey to Africa. The adventures of an adopted family. Tuesday, April 28, 2015. Do you know all these names? Facebook is a tricky place. For the longest time, I tried to keep my posts happy and lighthearted with pictures of the kids and nice things. And most of the time, I try to stick to that. But with so much going on around us, sometimes I do want to use social media to support a cause or highlight an issue. Trayvon Martin - February 2012. Jonathan Ferrell - September 2013. Eric Garner - July 2014.
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Our Journey to Africa: The Store!
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Our Journey to Africa. The adventures of an adopted family. I'm headed back to Swaziland next year! All proceeds go towards my trip to work with Heart for Africa. Email me at yklj AT triad DOT rr DOT com. Or leave a comment to order! I only have 10 of these, so snap 'em up! Personalized with first or last name! Bag measures approximately 20"x 30". Personalized Insulated Straw Tumblers $15. These make awesome teacher gifts! Word Necklace $20, (double sided-$22). Hence the red/black beads). Girl size is cl...
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Our Journey to Africa: GIVEAWAY
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Our Journey to Africa. The adventures of an adopted family. Friday, September 5, 2014. Want to win $180 worth of jewelry and accessories? I am so excited about this. I'm just really sad that I can't win. Maybe I can enter my own giveway under an alias? My dear friend, Chris Cheek, is moving to Swaziland to live on Project Canaan. For two years. She will be a mentor to the Aunties who work at El Roi, the baby care home, and a grandmother to the sweet babies (all 70 of them! And here's where you come in!
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Our Journey to Africa: Jesus came for the Bad Guys. Jesus came for us.
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Our Journey to Africa. The adventures of an adopted family. Saturday, May 2, 2015. Jesus came for the Bad Guys. Jesus came for us. Thugs Criminals. Drug Dealers. Bad Guys. These are words I've seen and heard a lot lately. You probably have too. Or maybe you've said or written them lately. Or thought them. Thugs Criminals. Drug Dealers. Bad Guys. But I know them as Moms. Dads. Big Smilers. Good Huggers. Hard Workers. Volunteers. Overcomers. Thug Criminal. Drug Dealer. Bad Guy. Those are easy labels. B...
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Our Journey to Africa: I have to tell you something
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Our Journey to Africa. The adventures of an adopted family. Friday, August 15, 2014. I have to tell you something. I have to tell you something: I have three children. Two sons and a daughter. One of my sons is white, the other is black (he was adopted). It breaks my heart that, based on statistics and research, and on the countless number of actual incidents of oppression in our society, the future looks much brighter for one of my sons than it does the other. This has to stop. Please don't tell me ...