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A True Story for Your Tuesday

By Beth On October 11, 2011 · 13012 CommentsA+True+Story+for+Your+Tuesday2011-10-11+13%3A44%3A49Beth · In Family, Memes, Missions, True Story Tuesday

Rachel & Mr. Daddy are still recovering from the recent passing of his mother and may not host True Story Tuesday today. I decided to write a TST post anyway. Please keep these precious friends in your prayers as they struggle to find the new normal … *** Once upon a time there was a clean cut American boy who loved Jesus and wanted to go into all the world (quite literally) to share that love with people far and wide. A few years ago when he had his senior portraits done he looked like this: He has, from time to time gotten a little scruffy but most of the time he has had short curly hair with or without facial hair. When he left for his most recent journey (5 months trekking in the Himalayas) he decided that he would let his hair, and whiskers, grow for the duration of his journey. His mother bought him a new razor (just in case) but he assured her that he would not [...]

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Fragmented Me – September 9, 2011

By Beth On September 9, 2011 · 879 CommentsFragmented+Me+-+September+9%2C+20112011-09-09+15%3A05%3A30Beth · In Friday Fragments

It’s fragmentin’ time again! Time to unload all the bits and pieces of the last week into one patchwork of a post and link it up with Mrs. 4444. Join us! It’s fabulous! *** The care package(s) are getting shipped out today. I was able to repack everything into 4 “large” flat rate boxes. I will go to the Post Office on my lunch hour and bid them adieu! They should arrive in Nepal sometime in the next week or two. Final shipping cost … $234.00. Which is a VAST improvement over the nearly $700 that UPS wanted when I had the whole shebang in one big box. Oh well … lesson learned! THANK YOU to those who stepped up to help us with the cost of shipping and with hints on how to lower that cost! You are a blessing to us and to our precious boys! *** I have decided that I want to color my hair with deep purple lowlights and put one lock of bright fuchsia [...]

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