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		<title>Linkage</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 01:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I enjoyed this post from Karen Campbell today. My relationship with my grandma was so much like Karen&#8217;s with her grandma. My grandma made me feel treasured and enjoyed, and I&#8217;ve remembered that and have tried to bring the same kind of attitude into my own parenting. Being a &#8220;yes&#8221; mama doesn&#8217;t mean you&#8217;re a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithandfamily.wordpress.com&amp;blog=857764&amp;post=260&amp;subd=faithandfamily&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kids, Mealtime, Picky Eaters, etc.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 18:16:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello out there! It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve stepped out and written anything on this blog. I&#8217;ve been silent partly out of busy-ness and partly out of an understanding of what a fool I am and how little I know about anything worthy of blog-space. I love being a teacher, which is why I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithandfamily.wordpress.com&amp;blog=857764&amp;post=239&amp;subd=faithandfamily&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Few Good Posts</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I haven&#8217;t had much time to post my own thoughts lately, but I thought I&#8217;d link to a few posts that have really resonated with me lately: The first one is a post from Ann at A Holy Experience. Click here. I thought I just might cry when I read this post. I am [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithandfamily.wordpress.com&amp;blog=857764&amp;post=229&amp;subd=faithandfamily&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Hearty Recommendation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, a month or so ago I had high hopes of writing lots of posts on things that have been swirling around in my mind, but for now the time it would take is better spent elsewhere. For now. But I did want to pop in and give a big, hearty recommendation for the Faith [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithandfamily.wordpress.com&amp;blog=857764&amp;post=213&amp;subd=faithandfamily&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our Advent Calendar &#8220;Snowballs&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because it&#8217;s the first day of December, it&#8217;s also the first day of a special tradition in our house. When my husband was a little boy, his mom made &#8220;snowballs&#8221; out of white construction paper, numbered them 1-25, and wrote a Bible verse per day on the backs.  She used Luke 2 (the Christmas story) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithandfamily.wordpress.com&amp;blog=857764&amp;post=201&amp;subd=faithandfamily&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:31:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a road trip, several years ago, my husband and I listened to Ramona, The Pest by Beverly Cleary. It was a book we had both enjoyed as children, but we listened to it with very different ears, as adults. Beverly Cleary has a gift for understanding how children think. Dan and I kept finding [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithandfamily.wordpress.com&amp;blog=857764&amp;post=163&amp;subd=faithandfamily&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Chief Task of Parenting- Showing God to our Children</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently discovered this quote from John Piper (Here is the source): The most fundamental task of a mother and father is to show God to the children. Children know their parents before they know God. This is a huge responsibility and should cause every parent to be desperate for God-like transformation. The children will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithandfamily.wordpress.com&amp;blog=857764&amp;post=157&amp;subd=faithandfamily&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>*Cough! Cough! Cough!*</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m blowing the dust off my blog today. I&#8217;ve got lots of ideas swirling around in my head that I&#8217;d like to share. So&#8230;..if anyone is still out there, stay tuned for some posts from me coming soon!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithandfamily.wordpress.com&amp;blog=857764&amp;post=161&amp;subd=faithandfamily&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Jesus Storybook Bible-A Giveaway</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My most popular blog post ever is one I wrote about my favorite Bible story books for young children. I get hits weekly, if not daily, from people who are looking for good resources for teaching the Bible to their young children. One book I mentioned was The Jesus Storybook Bible. This storybook is unique [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithandfamily.wordpress.com&amp;blog=857764&amp;post=154&amp;subd=faithandfamily&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How We Should Be Talking to Our Kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 02:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ephesians 4:29-30 “Let no (not a single one!) corrupt (rotten; worthless) communication (more than your words&#8211;your tone of voice, your expression, etc.) proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying (building up spiritually; encouraging), that it may minister grace (help; kindness; good will; favor ) unto the hearers.&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithandfamily.wordpress.com&amp;blog=857764&amp;post=142&amp;subd=faithandfamily&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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