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When I take personality tests, I always bust the matrix. Just when they almost have me all figured out, I answer “strongly disagree” and the whole trajectory falls apart. On question #9, “I do a thorough job, valuing completion,” and on #10, “I am easily overwhelmed and often abandon projects.” I love people, sometimes, just certain ones. I am creative, except when I get stuck in a rut.
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I am kind, except when I’m mean. I am comfortable socially, but I’m a 75% introvert. I was always a super straight square, but I chose friends (and boyfriends) (and a husband) who were naughty. And my whole life, I’ve been a total rule follower. Except when I’m so not. You may not be shocked to hear that my teachers never really liked me, and they were often surprised I was smart. (My college professor examining my resume my senior year: “Really?
Magna Cum Laude? Seriously?”) Perhaps this was because I would lay my head down and fall dead asleep in the middle of their lectures, or sail a note across the room to my friend while they were watching. Maybe they didn’t like the sullen girl who rolled her eyes and SIGHED VERY LOUDLY at the question-asker who lobbed her burning inquiry up with twelve seconds left in class. Which is all very weird because I love to learn. (Certain things.) And I’m a people pleaser. (But only sometimes.) So it has delighted and amused me to receive a deluge of emails from readers, professing their consent while confessing their shortcomings as they’ve launched into their own little mutinies against excess.
It appears you are selective rule-followers too, cherry-pickers if you will. You like the ideas, but not the ones that make you give up coffee. You are all for spending less, except for restaurants and stores. For instance, from Twitter and Facebook friends just in the last few days: Re: 7 month 3: If I buy I Coach purse, I won't have a problem giving away the rest of mine. #failingalready First day of #7 and I have a Superbowl-gluttony-food-hangover.
Oh, this is gonna take a lot of Jesus and spiritual caffeine. Halfway through the book, and my wife already gave away half our clothes. #classichusbandquote Is this a book a nerdish football fanatic/Popsicle enthusiast such as myself would enjoy?
Otherwise, I’m out. Reading Food ch. Of #7 & had to put it down.
Had to finish Skittles before I could read in good conscience. #ohtheirony #repent I bought the boots I had my eye on and felt a twinge of conviction at the checkout. It was probably the Holy Spirit, but I blamed your book instead, and may or may not have cursed your name under my breath.
I'm going to hurry up and wear them a few times before I start your book, so I won't be able to return them. These make me laugh every single day. People, I said 100 times that wasn’t a template, wasn’t a prescription, wasn’t a challenge, wasn’t a program. I find it hilarious that most readers have jumped in, excited to emulate the experimentsort of. You’re busting the matrix. You are so my people. So I’m coming to your rescue today with seven mini-7-projects (See what I just did?
That’s called synergy, y’all), giving you a pass from the Seven-Month Full Monty Version For Crazy People, and offering some simple, easily implemented ideas you can choose from without being labeled a “hippie granola” or “Commie Socialist.” If your mind is spinning and you need a focal point other than simply grabbing trash bags and throwing in everything you own, try just one of these on for size: 1. Pick one item you buy regularly, and go without it for a month. Reallocate the savings. (One reader went without soda, calculated the savings at $34 a month, which turned out to be the exact amount needed to sponsor a Compassion child. AWESOME SAUCE.) 2.
Help a family in need. Call the counselor at the poorest school in your city and ask if he/she has a student or family with specific needs you might be able to meet.
I am getting the coolest emails about folks doing this, taken from a tiny paragraph on page 92 in, ironically, the year I graduated from high school. Ninety ninety ninety ninety ninety-two! Put a 'cell phone bowl' near your front door with this sign: 'Be with the ones who are here.'
Ask family members and guests to leave their phones there as they enter. Maybe include a shelf for laptops if that is your poison. Commit to eating the food you already have as well as all leftovers for two weeks. This throws a wrench in the waste machine. We often have a freezer, fridge, and pantry full of food and exclaim, “We don’t have anything to eat!” Bull butter. (I am currently doing this too. Last night, we had shrimp gumbo I had in the freezer, but we were out of rice and bread.
So we ate it over pasta. With tortillas.
It was Cajun Mextalian. Solidarity, people.) 5. Declare 'screen free days' for your family: Pick two days with no TV, gaming, computers, phone apps, and games. Intentionally fill that space with time together. If you aren’t scared of a revolt, pick three days. Freeze spending—do not buy anything you don’t need for a month (clothes, shoes, whatever).
This stops the hemorrhaging so you can breathe and think. Just press pause and see what happens. I’m super excited about Tip #7, so it is getting its own section.
The most frequent response from readers is that they just started purging the stacks, piles, drawers, and closets full of stuff until they knew what to do next. And I started thinking What if we harnessed this response for great good? Because here is the deal: all those clothes and sheets and pots and mattresses and bicycles and jewelry represent a bunch of potential cash. We’ve already spent money on it once. What if we found a way to redeem those expenditures for something good and noble?
Rather than simply gnashing our teeth and wailing over the indulgence of it all, what if we rolled up our sleeves and converted it to mission? Enter my friends at, whose mission is this: “To be a global tribe dedicated to ending extreme poverty by helping to rescue orphans, restore their hope, and renew their communities.” They are pioneering innovative, sustainable initiatives in Haiti, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. They are bad to the bone and I want to be exactly like them when I grow up. As you might remember, I’m into orphans. Has this smart idea: Use our excess to serve the poor. Clever, right? And this is how:.
Sell what we’ve already bought and give the money to support the most vulnerable kids on earth. There is a paper-thin line between orphans and human trafficking. Kids on the streets or those just aged-out of the system, children with no options and no advocates, are targeted almost immediately for sex and labor trafficking. They are exploited and abused relentlessly, low-hanging fruit for predators. Is stepping in, building safe homes in Haiti for the whopping price of $6000 each, out the door. This is how Chris Marlow, founder of H.E.L.P., explains it: One of the best and most effective ways to fight trafficking is to prevent trafficking in the first place. Traffickers TARGET orphaned children.
We will build these homes within 20 minutes of the Dominican border. Kids are being sold at this border right now, into the Dominican Republic, where they will become sex and labor slaves. H.E.L.P., in partnership with Austin New Church and Restore.com, is going to build 12 preventative safe homes in 2012.
We will rescue 'the worst case scenarios' orphans - kids that are homeless, doubled-orphaned, abandoned, etc. And we will rescue girls that age out of their current orphanage. Which means: 12- and 13-year-old girls kicked out of the orphanage because they're too old. These girls usually become prostitutes locally in Haiti or sold into the DR.
Each home will have an overseer, or house mom/dad, potentially a widow. We hope to create a family style orphan care. Our local leader in Haiti will oversee the entire project.
The kids will be sponsored, so they will get food, water, clothing, and will also be able to attend school. Once we rescue a child, we will raise that child until they graduate college or trade school, so they can then take care of their own families. Good reader, let’s knock out one of those homes together, yes?
And by the revolutionary idea of selling what we’ve already bought. What if we took trash bags and dollies through our homes and purged, purged, purged, converting our indulgences into bricks and mortar and safety and a future for these precious, beloved-by-Jesus Haitian girls?
Plain old garage sales, reimagined. (Our little church does this once a year as a community and raised 12K in four hours. From our excess, yall. You could do this with your little family. Or your community group.
Or your neighbors. Or your soccer team.
Or your Bible study group. Or your book club. Or your sisters. Gather the troops, price everything to sell, and turn your shoes and books and couches into cinder blocks and plaster and a roof.
The goal is 6Kone house. We could blow right past that if we all got crazy.
Maybe you make $200 on your sale. Or perhaps you are a freak of nature like my friend Jenny who has never made less than a grand on any garage sale ever. Add it all together – your stuff, my stuff, their stuff – and we could do something amazing, literally changing girls’ lives who are headed into the sex trade as seventh graders otherwise. Sell your stuff.
Turn your excess into justice. Help build a safe house for the most vulnerable Haitian girls through the Isn’t this fun? We have the potential to be the answer to so many problems. What we can pull off together is so powerful.
I believe this is the gospel Jesus has called us to, the one burgeoning with teaching, proclaiming, feeding, housing, loving, sharing, studying, and worshipping. This gospel combines learning with loving, studying with serving; it emulates a Savior who fed and healed and touched and restoredAND taught and proclaimed and challenged and led. It is born in our hearts, expanded in our minds, declared with our mouths, and transferred to our hands.
It’s such an exciting, stirring time to follow Jesus, isn’t it? Girl - I so want to have coffee with you - but your blogs are the next best thing. You are so where I am at right now - The first place I investigated adopting from was Haiti as I have a gi-huge-ic heart for Haiti. I have never been, but plan to.
I have a close friend from college who has a great mission there called Living Water. anyhoo back on track - I am in the middle of 7, 3 wks home from Africa, and I am dying of post adoption guilt. Yesterday I begged God to give me a new project - and then I read this. I hate yard sales, though. My adoption yard sale was a mess - it rained and I was bailing water out of the garage with a dust pan when my first and almost only people arrived. I am going to stew on this and bring it up to my small group - who will be my council. I am starting my 7 experiment against excess next month.
I am still praying about what I need to focus and give up. Jen, Jesus and your book are wrecking me. My new hubby and I are just starting out, and we are the 7 rule breakers, some of those who are doing it a little differently, but it still is rocking our world. We are using your 7 foods as a guideline, eating what we already have in the house, and only spending $100 total for the month. It is awesome! We don't have much compared to most American's standards, but we have ridiculous amounts compared to the rest of the world!
So, thank you for sharing and I can't wait for the 'turning excess into justice'. I love all of these ideas, and had seriously thought about doing #7 already, but did not know exactly who to give the money to, since I am already donating 7 items of clothing each day for 30 days to our local organizations.
Now, however, I can add this project as a recipient for the garage sale earnings. God is changing me through your book and although I am quickly approaching 50, I say it is never too late for change. How do I know I am being changed? Not only am I purging my closet(s) of clothing I never even knew I had, but I experienced something yesterday that probably would not have caused me but a blip of regret a month ago.
I work for a non profit and we have adults who come to our center for assistance with job placement. We feed them a lunch, and occasionally we have food leftover when the order has been too much or one of our clients has gone home early. Yesterday, I thought that was the case and I ate one of the leftover lunches. To my dismay, the lunch belonged to a client who was there and was late to lunch because he was doing the honorable thing by finishing his work. I felt horrible and even more so because he was so gracious about the entire matter. At first, I told him that we would just give him extra the next day, but then I realized that he might not have anything to eat at home, and that might have been the ONE meal he would have eaten ALL DAY!! Prior to '7' I would have felt bad but done nothing about it.
Yesterday, I got in my car, drove to the restaurant who had provided the food, bought him a meal and drove 12 miles one way to take it to him. I am not telling this to pat myself on the back because I am ashamed of how the 'old me' would have handled it. I am telling this because this book is having a profound effect on me and my selfishness.
Thank you Jen for allowing God to use you as His instrument. My husband is certainly not liking the influence you are having on me! I just peppered him with all kinds of talk of the poverty stricken kids in other countries and how they are kept 2 per crib in a room full of cribs.and how if all the people in churches would just sponsor one child, there wouldn't be anymore children needing sponsors.and then I noticed his eyes were glazed over and he was starting to froth!
Fifteen years of marriage and I've never changed as much as in the past week reading '7'. Thank you for starting that change!!! Such great ideas! Can't wait to implement #3. Truly, the world would be a better place if there were more cell phone bowls! #5 may be a bit of a struggle, but I can do all things through Christ, right?!
And I definitely think our church should try #'s 2 and 7. I usually donate a lifetime supply of 'stuff' to the Salvation Army each year, but I like #2 and #7 even better because they are more specific endeavors. I have also done #'s 1, 4, and 6 and lived to tell about it.:-D RE: #1- while tracking my spending as a sophomore in college (hey, I was a bit of a geek when it came to ma money. Lol), I noticed I was spending over $100/month on sodas.
Needless to say, I don't drink soda anymore. Well, except for when I treat myself to an occasional root beer float.;-) Anywho, thanks so much for posting these seven mini-7 projects. Loved the book (7) and love this list.
You constantly challenge me to go to the next level. Jen, you're the greatest thing since sliced bread (and root beer floats)! Love love love. For my month of food fasting, our family gave up fast food (hard when you have preschoolers and a traveling hubby), eating 'new food' when there were leftovers, and HFCS.
I also halted ALL purchasing of new items save for groceries and a kids' birthday present. (The bday party was at Chuck E Cheese and I almost threw up from the commercialization.) Ummm.we were able to add $700 to our adoption fund.
And now we've begun even more purging and selling on Craigslist. It's a bit like we've found our treasure in an orphanage in China so we are selling off all our goods to go buy it. Such freedom!! But seriously, I cannot parent an almost 5 yr old and 2 year old without television.
So we are just giving that up on Sundays. Love the ideas Jen. My husband and I (25 yrs old) have served with YWAM (youth with a mission) for the last two years.
Went to India and fell in love with the orphans. God shook our lives up and turned our American dream all upside down. We are wrecked for the ordinary and we love it.
We are choosing to adopt from India.applied for a boy.our agency put in for a girl.should be getting the referral any day.kinda fun how God can surprise us, just like a pregnancy. My husband and I have committed to stop buying groceries.we did this last month to help save money for one of our biggest adoption payments. We got crazy creative.tried to clean out the freezer.but there's still tons in there.yeah so we are on month 2 of no groceries! (ok we did allow ourselves milk and eggs.we spent $15 on groceries) I love that there are wrecked people out there! Not just my husband and I!
May I first mention how much I LOATHE garage sales.however I will relinquish my hate for them for this! I am an adult who works with students for justice at our church.a church filled with teens who will readily admit to the excess in their lives. I can't wait to present this idea to them to help with two safe houses that we support and for which we are continually trying to keep in the front of people's minds so that they will send support. I, too, box it up and take it to goodwill most of the time. But I feel like this is a teachable moment for our kids.on many levels. Panasonic kx-flb802 printer driver for mac. While I know you have said over and over that this was not a challenge, or a model, whatever.
Jen, I was blessed by your book, but then I wanted to take it further. So I took the 'not challenge' Last month I did clothes. You have no idea the blessing that came from that, and frustrations. Oh wait, maybe you do.:D Arkansas is just a little colder than Austin I gather, and there were some days that I was miserably cold cause the jacket I chose was not substantial enough, during those freezing walks from the car to class I prayed for the homeless who didn't have a jacket at all, or a car or a home, or class to protect them from the wind and rain. I am packing up my house and am going to try my very hardest to get 7 items a day ready. So far I have almost 100 clothes (between my husband and me) and jewelry that I am taking to the battered women's shelter and his will go to the homeless shelter. I am giving away things that I like, and still wear but praying over them hoping that they find a lady who needs to feel pretty in that special purple birthday dress.
I am planning to try food starting next week once I can convince my husband that keeping Tony's seasoning is not in the spirit of 7. Although I felt that need for something better than simply 'more' I am finally getting what my international friends see when they come to the states for school. My friend Sara says their is no such thing as hoarding in her home in Brazil.
She said she couldn't even explain the concept to her mom. Oh and I adopted an orphan in prayer through Elijah's hope, until I am able to adopt for real. His name is Vijay from Bombay and he is beautiful! So all that to say, whether you intended it to or not your book is changing lives, and the experiment is needed to help us further see all the ways we are blessed, how we can pray for others, and change our lives further to align more closely to something our Savior hopefully wouldn't be ashamed of. Can I share just a little thing I'm doing? I got a REDcard from Target last year.
You can pick a school to donate to and I live out in suburbia where every classroom has a SmartBoard and our highschoolers each get a netbook. I had to read Savage Inequalities by Jonathon Kozol in college (still on my bookshelf!) and it just doesn't feel right to me to give more money to my kids' school when there are schools 25 miles away in the heart of St.
Louis that don't have books. So, I did a little research and picked a school in the inner city that was signed up on Target's program and am sending my measly donations there. It feels a bit like offering loaves and fishes, but Jesus does pretty amazing things with little offerings like that. I have finished 7 and it is making it's way through my friends as I write. Friday after reading your latest blog I have 2 additional couples on board with a GS4O and we are excited- mostly because it is so doable and our families can get involved.
We are so excited! I am currently recruiting a few more women to join our 7/GS4O Council.
Note we are in the midwest and Indiana will not be ready for any GS'g for a couple more months (currently snowing and 30degrees)but we are hoping that will give us time to make it a huge multi-family sale requiring a church parking lot to fit it all in! I totally expect that we will be adding funds to a 7 house sometime in late May or early June (you will probably have several completed by then.) Thank you so much for practical inspiration and the constant humorous edge. If you can make me laugh, cry and challenge me all in the same page I'm totally sold! On another note- our family plans to sit down and choose a girl from Haiti to sponsor to further connect us to the cause in a more personal way!!!
I pulled 70 pieces of clothing out of my closet last week. Made me a bit sick.
I have been off FB and Twitter for 14 days and while I am not doing 7 in 7 months. I am doing 7 in 7 months. I am attempting to do all 7 for at least the next 7 months. The things are.money is staying in the bank longer, drive through restaurants are calling and asking where I am. We are eating out of the fridge not the bag. That is hard!!!
I am trudging forth.and a few friends are wondering what I am up to and reading and purging right along with me! Thank you for your book. I didn't buy it for the template/program.
I bought it to remind myself that I am not alone on this journey! I laughed ridiculously hard at the section about split personalities! It was like you had come grocery shopping with me! Our journey started in 2007 with FPU by Dave Ramsey.
We thought we were getting out of debt to save for the future, but God had other plans. In '09 we did a year of non-consumption and it ROCKED our worlds. We realized then that God had directed us to get our finances in order so we could give NOT store up! It is still a battle of balance! Between now and Easter we are taking on a daily decluttering of one small area in our home. It's hard to believe there is still more to purge 5 years in (yuck!).
We will also be doing a media free week! Thank you for sharing your journey!
I totes love your book! So much that I have become severely evangelistic about it.sharing it's good news to all and hoping to convert some fellow mutineers along the way! Personally, I'm purging to donate and reaching out to love and quitting cable to sponsor ($60/mo. Cable bill can sponsor 2 more kids.craz-ay!). The kids and I are even planning monthly one day fasts when we eat only the food of a nation's poorest poor while we learn and pray for them. The real kicker though would be if a move to Austin is in order so I can have someone grow a lovely garden for me, too!:) Thank you for your radical example and for the swift kick in my arse! Thank you for showing me the practical benefits of fasting, breaking from the feast to give, give, and give some more!
Love the #7 idea. Earlier this month God spoke loudly to me through Luke 12. No storing up treasures is pretty clear, but it was v. 32-33 that rocked me to the core.
God desires to give us the kingdom, but we've got no room for the kingdom if our lives are full of stuff! 'Sell your possessions and give to the needy.' God could speak a Word and provide for all those in need, but He hasn't. He's told us to do it.
And those around the world experiencing hunger and thirst and death. They probably don't question God's love for them. They question mine. My love for them and my love for the Father. So we've begun a massive purge.
And not just the extra stuff laying around, but laying everything on the altar and only picking it back up if He says okay. We're having a huge yard sale this Spring and inviting not just our whole church to purge and donate, but our community too. Even people who don't know Jesus get excited about helping others and it is a great way to show them what being a Christ follower is really about! I love that God spoke through His Word and is now using your book to confirm and challenge!.If you want to quadruple your money.sell your excess on EBAY.since readig Jen's post about Excess in Decmeber I have been purging my house.
I'm only 33.I don't know how on earth I've already accumulated so much already, but for the past month I've been selling my 2 kids clothes and my clothes on EBAY and have made.wait for it.$1800.00!!!!! ( yes, this does mean- i had an excess of excess) bt, I'm turning it around.and that money is going into a little fund called 'mission trip fund/adoption fund/get me some more babies fund/move to Africa fund' whatever.and i feel lighter.and I'm not stopping for awhile.there's so much more to lose and so much more to gain!
Plus when we move to the missionfield we really can't take that much ayways.so this is like training camp.;). Our plan is to build one house 'personally' by the end of the year. We would do this by cutting our budget in areas of excess. Then we thought about ways to get others - family and friends involved - and think doing a 'match' up to $6k would help promote and encourage. So our goal is to build ONE house with our own money, and ONE house with money from others - TWO HOUSES by the end of the year! I am always challenged to donate when there is a 100% match, I hope others will be too! Consider doing a MATCHING CAMPAIGN of your own!n.
I am soooo lovin' your book and am also in love with the ideas you wrote about in this blog post! 7 is the first book of yours that I have ever read. I was so motivated by it!
I have so many pages of the book with the corners folded over to go back and re-read. I have purchased the book for friends, and I am on a mission to do good with all of the crazy junk I have throughout my house! To top off my love of your book (and writing style), we have a little girl that we adopted from Ethiopia in 2010! When I started reading your book, I didn't even know you were in the process of adopting from Ethiopia.
It was like icing on the top of this delicious read! Thanks so much! NCan i just say that going to a Steven Curtis Chapman concert, reading Irresistible Revolution, and 7 all in the same month, while fasting for God to do something in your life will SERIOUSLY mess you up!nnI finished Jen's book yesterday because I couldn't put it down after starting it while waiting at the DMV. I was a serious WRECK.
I have been thinking and feeling everything in these chapters (except recycling. I thought that was a hippie thing, too. Now i have to start doing it.). The excess, a teenage son who thinks everything should be hand delivered to the table in front of him, a husband whose idea of retirement is 'having you all to myself, honey', and me sobbing because 4.5 million children in Ethiopia have no one to keep them safe day after day. NnAnd guess what our sermon was about today?
Living in your comfort zone. Christianity from the La-Z-Boy. I'm done with that.
NnI want to grill out with the homeless, get rid of stuff I don't need, redirect my spending, and bring home a child who needs a loving family. NnGarage sale is scheduled for April 13-14 (I live in the north.
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That sheep is not for riding. DON’T TOUCH THE NATIVITY!” I like my nativity and the reality is that if I let them play with it, it is going to get broken. But I’m afraid what their little ears may be hearing is, “Don’t interact with the Christmas story.
Look, but don’t touch.” Or rather, don’t let the story touch you. I’m not saying we can’t protect our expensive nativity sets and Christmas decorations from little hands, but I think it’s good to remind ourselves that oftentimes they have an attitude toward Christmas that we’ve lost along the way—wonder. And that wonder can be squelched by us if we are too concerned with the appearance of Christmas and not concerned enough about getting the message of Christmas, namely the birth of our Savior, into their little hearts and minds. So, here is a collection of ideas for celebrating Christmas kid-style. The focus is finding ways to help your children interact with the Baby in the manger this Christmas. A Children’s Nativity Get your kids a nativity that they can play with made of plastic or wood and help them role-play with it.
Offer to be Joseph and let your little girl be Mary and act out the Christmas story. The next day, be the wise men. Encourage play using the characters of the most important story ever told. If you don’t want to purchase a nativity, make a set together using supplies such as baby food jars, beads, or construction paper.
Family Devotions Focused on Advent We struggle to have consistent family devotions at our house. But Advent provides an opportunity for us to try again with a specific message in mind. Take some time each evening to sit by the Christmas tree and talk about Jesus’ birth. If your children are very young, this might mean simply reviewing the story and asking them some questions. If they are old enough to read, you might ask them to take turns reading the story from the Bible (, ). Here is a complete with family devotionals and discussion questions that you could also use.
is a great (and cheap!) little ebook that helps you talk about the message of Christmas all December long with your kids. Each day includes Scripture reading, a craft, talking points, and activities. Don’t let that overwhelm you. It’s simple, easy stuff best suited for your little ones. A similar idea is Ann Voskamp’s. Each day of this twenty-five-day family devotional includes daily Bible reading, a read-aloud devotional for the whole family, a simple action point, and an ornament to decorate. Advent Calendars Advent calendars provide an opportunity for daily discussion about the true meaning of Christmas.
There are several options for purchase available online. This year I bought one that allows my children to add a piece of the Christmas story to the manger each day. Yesterday, we put a tiny box of gold by a wise man and talked about the gifts that Jesus received after His birth.
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Then I asked my three-year-old what kind of gifts Jesus wants from him. Later in the day, Eli said, “I just gave Jesus a present by being kind to my brother.” Eureka! He’s getting it. No expense is required for this option.
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You could simply help your child draw a part of the story on the calendar each day in December; or make Mary, Joseph, the shepherds, the wise men, the star, the angels, and the animals out of construction paper and tape them on your calendar. These are just some ideas to get you started, but the point is to find some kid-friendly ways to interact with the Christmas story this year.
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I’d love to hear your ideas for how you accomplish this at your house—right after I’m finished gluing the legs back on a sheep from my nativity.