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Thursday’s Things to Pray For

  1. My voice is pretty good! I saw my surgeon this morning (totally stressed getting there though since my 45 minute drive took 2 hours with traffic and then I was late! UGH!). She was really happy with how things look. I don’t go back for another 3 months (sigh of relief). Pray that it continues to improve over the next couple weeks so that I can sing a bit for Christmas!
  2. Pray for me as I have some editing projects in front of me with deadlines quickly approaching. I am anxious to finish them but find it hard to get undivided time to work (I know all you mommies out there know what I mean).
  3. Pray for God to continue to guide us, direct our paths, and teach us to rest when we feel hurried and busy.

Click here to learn more about Thursday’s Things to Pray For. Pray for me, for these things I list. And, leave me a comment to let me know you did if you don’t mind. It would be a great encouragement. And, I invite you to do the same on your blog–haven’t had too many takers on this in weeks past. But, I still feel compelled to invite you to. Or, if you don’t want to link up, feel free to leave your prayer request as a comment here and I’ll lift it up.


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Sunday Snapshot {Extending the holiday}

I am fully aware that it is November 14th and that Thanksgiving is around the corner and Christmas shopping is apparently well under way.

Look what we did this past week. Yup, while the rest of you are buying your Gingerbread house kits (please tell me that you buy the kit in the box and don’t make it from scratch), we made a gingerbread haunted house. (For the record–it was a gift. I didn’t buy it on clearance after Halloween. Though, I totally would have if I had seen it!)

Lydia tried to get in on the action. She’s so cute.

You see, Halloween is a pretty big deal around here. I know that’s sorta strange. We are a Christian family, and I know that many Christian families don’t even “do” Halloween. But, not only do our kids “do” it, they love it. I think the main reason that I haven’t discouraged it at all and have engaged in conversations in April about what they are going to be for Halloween is because of this:

(you better believe I had fun going through old pictures to find these from July 2005)
When Evan was young and unable to deal with his anxiety socially in groups of people at family gatherings or on the playground, costumes became therapeutic. He could put a mask on and become someone else. He was able to do things that he couldn’t do when he was simply Evan. It was pretty amazing to watch him transform from an emotional, anxious child to a superhero simply by putting on a cheap piece of black plastic with an elastic string over his face. I learned to love costumes. 
So, yes, you’ll still see my kids dressed up as Spiderman or Buzz or a monkey or an astronaut or as Darth Vader well into the Spring…and beyond (to infinity and beyond, perhaps?). And, yes, I may blog a few months from now about our “upcoming” Halloween plans. I’m sure they will have already been discussed. 

Ni Hao Y'all

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