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Follow Friday: The Enchanted Bungalow
You may have noticed a button on my sidebar for The Enchanted Bungalow...today I'm excited to introduce you to the person behind the button: Kristine Gray!It's rather shameful that Kristine and I live...
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RED CUPS and Orphans!
Tis the season...For those beautiful red cups from Starbucks.I haven't had my first peppermint mocha yet.Have you?I was going to stop by one of the 8 Starbucks In close proximity to my house.And then I...
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red cUPDATE: and oh yes, a vlog is on the horizon
Busy week.My office at work is getting repainted, with new carpeting and new cubicles.I'm pretty stoked, because it hasn't been redone in like...over ten years.So Monday I had to move my "area of...
View ArticleThankful Thursdays: We are so blessed!
This has been a good week.A difficult week, full of challenges, but a good week.Mr. Bacon and I have had great opportunities to communicate about our life and it's challenges. Even when things are...
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Oh, you know, it's supposed to be Follow Friday.But I'm tired.Not just sleepy, but really tired.And sleepy.My brain is tired. This weekend I'm going to let myself take a break.From thinking and...
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MONDAY!!!!!!!
It's sort of screaming at me like that...MONDAY!!!!!Here's what you missed when I was weekending:Dinner out with a lifelong friend where we ended up getting a free burger AWESOMENESSWe got a cat...and...
View ArticleBlackish Friday
Bullet points for you, you're welcome:Mr. Bacon wasn't working and we got to shop togetherDeckman was deemed old enough and came with us and had a blastFaithWalker went shopping with her friend and...
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Whatever it Takes: A post about depression
Absent.I've been absent, a lot in the past week or so.I've talked about it here before, alluded to it.It's hard to talk about, because some people will judge and say, "Christians CAN'T be..."And others...
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I AM NOT A CAT PERSON
My dear old dad used to say,"The only good cat is a dead cat."I think the only question he had about me marrying Mr. Bacon was that he is a cat person.He looked past that and accepted him, in spite of...
View ArticleDesire to Inspire: What's the Point?
Last week I was privileged to have lunch with a friend I met through the blogging world and she mentioned that the way she found me was through a mutual friend who mentioned that when I do giveaways I...
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Giving up a Shot to Give them a Shot
So, um, yeah.I was hoping we'd be farther along than nearly halfway in this whole "Red Cup" dealio.Hoping, because I have not just eliminated Red Cups from Starbucks in my attempts to raise funds for...
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Weekend Wrap-Up
Weekend Recap:Friday night while Mr. Bacon was driving back from Dallas and Deckman was at a church event, Faithwalker and I went out for some retail therapy. It was successful...both in finding...
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Holiday Handmade - What I've Purchased so Far
Handcrafted Bowls fromLee Daniels ClayworksI've mentioned it before, but I'm really trying to buy handmade for almost everyone on my Christmas list. There are some people of course, that it's very...
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Desire to Inspire: Dwelling
I wrote this as a comment on my brother's blog post this morning.It was early.RELATIONSHIP… Don’t you read my blog?? JK. But I am amazed at the idea of a God who makes this so implicitly clear to us,...
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My birthday is in less than a week.Christmas is in two weeks.People want to know what I want.So here is my list:That thing I saw online...And that other thing...And then that one thing...Yeah, I don't...
View ArticleThe Shiny Part of Giving
I did it.I set a goal.And I reached it.I more than reached it,I was able to help one more orphan.But I didn't do it alone.I gave some "red cup" money as birthday gifts.I received some "red cup" money...
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Desire to Inspire: 8:49 12/13/12
Yesterday the world was all abuzz with the date...And twice during the day, the time was important as well.I couldn't help but think of all the other days of this year...And the rest of the 1438...
View ArticleOn being tired and resting
It's been a long week.And I have felt very alone.Or maybe it's felt long.Because I've been alone.I'm tired from counting on relationships that aren't real.I'm tired from thinking and planning, only to...
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Be Kind
I'm sure you've seen this quote before...I've been thinking about this a lot in the past week, as I've been trying to process the events of "last Friday" (I wonder how we're going to refer to it next...
View ArticleNot so Happy New Year
Yeah.So this will not exactly be the challenging, scintillating first post of the year where I relive the "bests" of 2012 or my "word" for 2013. Instead, I'm sitting here thinking about how I feel...
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