Kanga’s Kitchen

We love coffee at my house! ☕️  So of course, Christopher Robin & I had a coffee-flavored wedding cake. The recipe my friend used (from Martha Stewart) is no longer available online, but here’s a similar recipe: Mocha Cake (shoutout to Mel's Bakery in Barbourville, KY) Coffee is a fitting illustration of marriage; because while black coffee is good (and even preferable to some people, as it was to me before getting pregnant with Roo) - most people would agree that perfect coffee requires a perfect blending of the black-coffee base with some combination of milk/creamer & sugar/sweetener, just like a perfect marriage requires a perfect blending of one man & one woman into a lifelong one-flesh union. “No longer two but one” (Mark 10:8).  One Flesh Marriage   (Nancy Cambell, Above Rubies)

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“Blessed are the unoffendable!”  https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/blessed-are-the-unoffendable

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Some recent seeds of joy, as we prepare to worship the Son corporately tomorrow…. On our latest expedition to the little free library on the next street over, the kids & I discovered a book of recipes for homemade slime! While I was singing her bedtime songs the other day, our (foster) daughter told me she loves me sometimes - and that means we’re making some real progress, since lately her staunch antagonism has been a heartache-y struggle. But hey, progress is progress!  Our son is a late talker, seeming to understand everything and saying quite a few individual words, but not being conversational yet. Sometimes his nonverbal-ness is a struggle. But here are some of his most recent word-additions!  * berries (learned with blueberries; but also used for grapes, raisins, cranberries, watermelon, blueberry muffins, etc) * lo-lo (yogurt) * Too-tul! (Oh, Toodles! from Mickey Mouse) * away (I want to put X away) * ride (ride home in the stroller) And let’s not forget our fun p...

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