I've taken the 40 bags in 40 days challenge to simplify our home & increase our giving this Lent. It's a little tricky, given that my intense nesting instinct before Teresa was to purge, purge, purge. Yet, we're only three weeks in & here are my totals:
7 bags to CSS
3 bags to friends & family
4 bags in the garbage
= 14 total
Granted, they are small bags, but bags none the less. (We'll keep the cute baby.) Only 26 to go!
This is our sacrifice jar. Every time one of the kids makes a sacrifice, big or little, they get to put in a rock. We're 16 days in & there aren't a whole lot of rocks... but that's because they also have to take one OUT when they do something naughty or not nice. (It's been an interesting couple of weeks!) Andrew wanted to put the hearts at the top to show when we fill it up our love for Jesus will be overflowing!
This is our sacrifice jar. Every time one of the kids makes a sacrifice, big or little, they get to put in a rock. We're 16 days in & there aren't a whole lot of rocks... but that's because they also have to take one OUT when they do something naughty or not nice. (It's been an interesting couple of weeks!) Andrew wanted to put the hearts at the top to show when we fill it up our love for Jesus will be overflowing!
You're ahead of me - I've only got 13 out the door, but my attic is FULL of stuff that I've yet to go through. :)
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