(One of my favorite songs by The album Leaf)

Any plans?

Okay, so my husband thought up this idea to talk about the top 5 blogs that send the most traffic and why we like their blogs.

These are my top 5 this month:

1. Brody: I like his blog a lot. It’s random, like him, and his bunny. I’m married to him, and I still am surprised to hear his take on things sometimes! I like to see what is on his mind, and usually I’ll hear a good music recommendation.

2. Jeff Culmer: I like that his blog shows a lot of behind the scenes of his job working on the crew for various bands, and he’s got definitions for words I’ve never heard of. Plus, a really funny story about a spider and a port-a- potty.

3. Euphrony: I like Euphrony’s blog because he’s got everything from interesting facts, to thoughts on being a dad.

4. Kat: I like Kat’s blog, because she “keeps it real.” I mean, that there is a balance in the things that she talks about, and she is easy to relate to. There’s a lot of variety, friendship, free music, and funny stories.

5. Tracy: I like Tracy’s blog, because it’s so transparent. She’s an incredibly sweet and genuine and funny person, and that is why I like reading her blog!

Steven is talking about the homeless today, and a great book called “Under the Overpass.”

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Sarah is talking about the persecuted church.

“Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” ~Matthew 5:10

I love to meet new people, (even though I’m a generally shy person, but I’m getting better).

 Tonight, we got to meet Euphrony and his family.  (he doesn’t look like his picture)

Euphrony and I work together on the Inspired to Action team, via the internet, so all meetings are held online, or by phone.  I realized that I’ve been reading his blog for around a year, so I kind of felt like I knew them in a way.    

They are a really great family, with cute kids, and it was a fun experience to just hang out, relax and get to know them better.  

I think it’s neat to meet people that I’ve only known online.  It’s fun to connect and know somebody to look up if we are ever in their neck of the woods!  

(thank you also, for the pizza!)  

Laura is part of the Inspired to Action team, and has much knowledge pertaining to Africa.  She talks about a subject today, that is hard to stomach, but is one of those things that has to be talked about because it must stop.  

Beth is speaking about Compassion, which is a great organization that we can’t hear enough about all they are doing to support children and release them from poverty.  

Thanks to everyone for the super nice birthday wishes!  That was an awesome surprise!  

Had a great birthday, and am feeling better after getting some antibiotics for my infected toe.

My family picked out a “wall E” cake for me, which had lots of frosting, so I was happy about that, and Brody and I were able to go to dinner on a gift certificate that we’d been saving for a special occasion.

Thank you again for all the virtual signings on my card, hope you had a good day.  

This is Brody hijacking Kristin’s blog while she is not paying attention.  I thought it would be fun to put a birthday card on here for her and in the comments we can all pretend that we are signing the card.  What do you guys think?  Something like this might make Kristin feel weird but she shouldn’t have given me the password to her blog then, right?  So here’s the card.  Feel free to sign away in the comments.

Today’s blogger is Jason Gray, speaking about the organization, World Vision. 

He goes into depth in describing what this organization does, it is really interesting. 

Ambre is speaking about the International Justice Mission, that is releasing people from injustices.   

I attempted to go to work today, after being sent home with a headache, chills, body aches, stomach ache, and a really swollen and sore toe.  I got in bed, and I’m still here.  I really hate to be sick, and am contemplating going to the doctor soon, because I think I am having an allergic reaction to the bee I got stung by, yesterday.  

In other news, the bloggers today are really great.  

Licia~ is working “in the trenches,” so to speak, and is doing really amazing things in Haiti.  She’s got a whole lot of before and after pictures of these people they are nursing back to health, and it’s really amazing. 

Chris~ is speaking about Kiva, which is a really great organization.

I stepped on a bee, while walking through the grass, (well, actually it was clover, which has totally taken over my grass).  I had to actually pull the bee off of my toe!  

Then it just kept stinging, with the stinger left in, and so I limped to my first aide box, saying, “oww, oww, oww…” and opened the tube of benadryl cream from last year that was sealed shut. So I limped to find the scissors which were not where they were supposed to be because the boys had just used them to open their popsicles.

I finally found them outside, and I cut off the top of the tube to find clotted cream… so I just sat down in the middle of the garage, holding my stinging toe, while my boys stared at me.  

It hurt, I know, I’m a wimp….(but, I must admit that it was better stepping on a bee, then the time I sat on a bee)