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History of the Israelites – the quick version

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OK, I keep wanting to share this and I keep putting it off. I have truly been blessed while reading the Bible every single day for the last month as part of my Read the Bible in 90 Days endeavor. I’m currently in 2 Chronicles and I have just been amazed at the history of the Israelites and how much I really didn’t understand before reading it. The one question that I’ve had answered (among many) may lead people to believe I’m an idiot but nonetheless, I didn’t understand…who in the world were the Israelites?

You can read a ton about them on the Internet. It doesn’t take a genius to read up on it but here are the basics. Please, please, please correct me if I’m not saying something right but this is my understanding as of now.

  1. Abraham was in Canaan when God promised him he’d give him lots of people (a great nation) and all that land around him.
  2. Abraham had Isaac.
  3. Isaac had Jac0b.
  4. God renamed Jac0b Israel.
  5. Jac0b/Israel had 12 sons one of which was Joseph.
  6. Joseph was sold by his brothers into slavery and ended up in Egypt.
  7. Joseph became a big man in Egypt.
  8. There was a famine.
  9. Joseph’s father, Jac0b, told his brothers to go buy food in Egypt.
  10. Joseph reunited with his family and they all moved to Egypt.
  11. Their family and descendants are all called Israelites.
  12. They become too numerous and Pharaoh gets scared and puts them all into slavery.
  13. From there, you should know that the story picks up with “Let my people go” and eventually leads them back to Canaan, the Promised Land, which God promised Abraham.

But the short of it is the Israelites are Jac0b/Israel’s descendants.

Right, wrong?

Am I the only person on the planet that never really understood who the Israelites where and why they were in Egypt to begin with and what that had to do with Abraham?

Make it stop

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Another very long day today.  Made some decent progress while at work and more importantly enjoyed a donut at breakfast and Flo’s Filet at lunch.  Yes, that is why I really go to the office.  The food.  It’s all about the food.

After getting home, Scott was off to work and I quickly gave into Emma’s request to go to Taco Bell.  I was still stuffed from lunch though and only ate some nachos.  After that, we made stops at Blockbuster and CVS.

This evening I spent time on one of the web sites I’m working on and then have been Interneting while watching a movie.

And now here it is almost midnight again and I’m struggling to keep my eyes open.  And I still have my Bible session to finish.  I guess I better go get started.   Can you feel the enthusiasm?

More Lexi-isms

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Lexi is at such a great age for funny stuff.  Have two today.

We missed a birthday party of a girl in Lexi’s class this weekend and I wondered if I mentioned a few names whether she’d pipe up and tell me we’d missed the party.  So I was trying to get info from Lexi about what kids were at school.  I asked her about the little girl K whose party we missed.  And here’s the convo

Me: Was K at school?

Lexi: No.

Emma: Was she at the doctors or did she go on vacation?

Lexi (very matter of factly): She went on vacation to see the doctors.

Wow, what a bum vacation.

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Emma and Lexi are sitting on the recliner after their baths right now and this is the convo I hear:

Emma has the detangler posed right at her mouth and getting ready to spray and says: Yeah, do it like this, it will taste good, I promise.

I see the situation and intercept: Emma!  Don’t spray that in our mouth!  It will make you sick!

Lexi: Yeah, Emma, don’t do that. *pause* I will get a baby in my tummy. A real one.

I’m not dead, just busy

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Sunday was another really busy day.  Church, dinner, youth council meeting, CVS trip, Super Bowl party.  Can I just say I missed the Giants big win?  I got in the shower at 1:30 left assuming the Patriots would win and even thought to myself I bet I miss a big upset.

Today I’m going into work…can’t post there so I’ll be back on later tonight.

Paci!

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Lexi surprisingly gave up her pacifier last year but has asked for it a few times since. Tonight was one of them. Lexi was crying in bed tonight and had her blankie up at her face and then the conversation went like this:

Lexi (still crying and whining): Paccc-eeee!

Me: Paci? You aren’t a baby anymore, silly!

Lexi (very dramatic and still crying and very serious): I’m crying like a baby! I’m a baa-beee!

Poor thing. I couldn’t help but laugh. I guess we’ve told her to quit crying like a baby a time or two.

CVS February Monthly Deals

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Tonight was a good night. I tried to buy every monthly deal Crystal mentioned but they were out of a few of them.  Here’s how it went down:

Precision Diabetes Monitor
5 Chewable Baby Aspirin (the add says Children’s but the box does not and it works)
3 Nutri Gum
2 CVS Fabric Softener
Revlon Nail Polish (50% off)
2 Garnier Face Cleansers (a deal from this week–we found the tearpad while we were there)

Used $2 CVS Revlon coupon
Used 2 $2 Garnier Tearpad Coupons
Used $2.50/10 CVS Pain Reliever Coupon
Used $41 ECBs

Total oop .48

Savings today were $128

Earned $49.81 ECBs

FYI, Scott says the Nutri Gum is very tasty.

Wow, what a day

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My eyes hurt, I just ate dinner and I’m really tired.

Today doesn’t even feel like it happened.  I woke up at 9, right when I was supposed to be at the church to help prepare tomorrow’s choir dinner.  I made it over there by 10 after grabbing some Starbuck’s on the way.  And then I never left the church until almost 7pm.  Seriously.  I stayed through and helped the youth group with the concession stand at the basketball game.  Scott was with me and MIL brought the girls by a few times to eat lunch and stuff.  I actually had a lot of fun doing it.  The youth did most of the work and I was just there to relax, chat it up with some of the girls and help keep the kids on point a time or two.

Emma and Lexi went to MIL’s neighbors Elmo birthday party and they were still there when we got done at the church so we went there to pick them up.  We came home and the girls went right to bed.

Heather and I made a trip to CVS to do their new monthly February deals (more on that next) and now I feel like crashing.

And I still have one more really full day.

It’s late and all I have to talk about is Arbonne

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OK, so Scott made us coffee for my Arbonne party and now I can’t sleep.  No great devotion forthcoming…I’ll just talk about Arbonne.  Arbonne is basically a skin care line.  They also have makeup and health products but the skin care sells it.  Since D’s last party, I have used the samples and can already tell a difference in my skin.  And seeing the amount of time and money I’ve already forked out for my acne prone skin, that says a lot.

I didn’t think I was going to buy too much tonight though but Mom was into it and decided to do their huge buy $350 worth of product and get $350 for free we did that together.  I had some money from the previous show for deciding to host and all in all, I came out with probably $1,000 worth of product for $200 something.  A lot to fork out at once but I got a TON of stuff.  Let me show you why.  I’m telling you, they just need to show these pictures and it sells itself.  (Sorry for the redundancy if you’ve attended some of their parties)

**Insert amazing before and after pictures..I can’t get Live Writer to save it and I don’t feel like uploading pictures…just click here to see pictures of dry feet, cellulite, wrinkles and acne that have all been helped by Arbonne*

The best part?  Some of these results are within TWO WEEKS.  Crazy, I tell you.

I have no idea why I’m doing a write up on Arbonne except to say I think it could really help some people.  I’m technically a consultant now (but not where I’m going to do my own shows or anything…you can pay $29 to become a “consultant” and buy the products wholesale yourself) and could get you some products if you’re interested, but that’s not why I’m writing this.  I had no clue about Arbonne up until a few weeks ago and now I’m sold!  I have yet to see if everything works on me, but I’ll be taking before pictures of my cellulite–and don’t argue with me, I DO have it–and maybe my feet and face as well and if it works, I’ll post my own before and after pictures.

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