December 2009

12 Pearls of Christmas: Jesus Comforts

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This post is part of a blog tour series from LitFuse Publicity and Pearl Girls. Every day I will be featuring daily inspirational stories, from now until Christmas, all written by guest authors. How to Cope with Christmas by Stacie Ruth Stoelting Last night, I dreamed that God resurrected my beautiful adopted aunt, Mary Jo [...]

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12 Pearls of Christmas: Just God

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This post is part of a blog tour series from LitFuse Publicity and Pearl Girls. Every day I will be featuring daily inspirational stories, from now until Christmas, all written by guest authors. A Tangible Reminder by Mary Byers Last year I read Me, Myself, & Bob: A True Story About Dreams, God, and Talking [...]

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12 Pearls of Christmas: Home

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This post is part of a blog tour series from LitFuse Publicity and Pearl Girls. Every day I will be featuring daily inspirational stories, from now until Christmas, all written by guest authors. COMING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS by Virelle Kidder My mother had remarkable zeal for Christmas. Weeks in advance, she would come home from [...]

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12 Pearls of Christmas: Life Beautiful

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This post is part of a blog tour series from LitFuse Publicity and Pearl Girls. I’m so excited to be able to feature daily inspirational stories from now until Christmas! Life Beautiful by Margaret McSweeney During a quiet moment after Thanksgiving, I started reading my parents’ stack of love letters that I recently found in [...]

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Christmas Traditions: Creative Gift-Giving

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There’s a lot of talk about gift giving these days, to do or not to do Santa, homemade or store-bought, a lot or a little… Here’s a little glance at how we do it (or rather, are going to do it as some of this is new for us this year). For starters, we aren’t [...]

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Up-and-Running Adoption Fundraisers

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Update: We are meeting with our agency director on Monday to turn in our family portfolio copies and to wrap up loose ends and make sure we’re all on the same page. We’ll also be meeting the other social worker that we’ll be in contact with from now on. Making more progress! And now, I’m [...]

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Adoption Update for December 3, 2009

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Tonight is our last home study meeting to finish our interview questions and get our home inspected. I’ve been tiding up and getting ready in accordance with the crazy list we have to comply with. Most of it is pretty simple (like having a fire extinguisher and first aid kit) but we did have to [...]

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Love Finds You in Lonesome Prairie {Review}

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I adored this book! I picked it up on our Thanksgiving camping trip one evening and literally read it in one sitting. It was a captivating western romance that had me almost feeling like I was watching a movie rather than reading a book.  I thought it had great character development and loved that the [...]

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Christmas Traditions: Celebrating Advent

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Celebrating Advent Advent is the term that is used to refer to the Christmas season, a season of hope and anticipation, as we await the celebration of the birth of our Savior. There are many ways to celebrate Advent, all of which help focus our thoughts on Jesus rather than the hustle and bustle of [...]

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