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A Bundle of Myrrh

"My beloved is unto me as a bundle of myrrh." Song of Solomon 1:13

Our New Blog Address

March 14th, 2015 by Aubri

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Well some of you noticed that our blog went kaput last week. Thank you to those who let me know. I wondered why all the crickets were gathering. I could get technical and explain what went wrong, wait, I could let Phil get all technical and explain what went wrong, but I like y’all so I won’t do that to you. But he did want to say a few words.

Aubri started this blog about the time we were married in 2007.  We moved from Blogger to WordPress in April of 2010.  Since then A Bundle of Myrrh has been hosted on my home computer.  It had its limitations and headaches, but worked reasonably well. After our internet provider changed their policies, without notification, that came to an end last week.  So we are going the professional route now.  It should be more reliable, faster, and allow for some fancier features.  But it is the end of an era.

Did any of you just get a bit teary like I did? That is true nerd love, “the end of an era.” Poor Phil. Breaks my heart a little.

So you can see, our address is now abundleofmyrrh.com. The old link you all have should still work for a while and redirect you here but I’d recommend going ahead and updating your bookmarks!

There are still a few kinks we’re working out.  Hopefully within a week or so we’ll Phil will have that fixed.

My Wealthy Grandparents

March 4th, 2015 by Aubri

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Thank you Kristi for passing along the link to this post, What We Lose With Just Two Children Per Family.

After reading it I had to share with you all a little about the family I come from. My mama’s Mama and Daddy (my Grandma Sissy and Grumpy or Babe as many called him) were blessed with 11 children. My little aunt Gloria died when she was just 2 years old, the other 10 grew and lived together surprisingly well and with much happiness all the way to grown up status.

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Here is a photo taken this last Thanksgiving at my uncle’s house in Alabama. I have to let you know this is only a PORTION of my extended family.

Pictured here are 12 of my aunts and uncles, 18 of my first cousins and 26 of my first cousins’ children.

Not pictured are the other 40 descendants of my grandparents, Thomas and Muriel Mackin. They left behind a great heritage of 81 children plus their spouses, 94 souls in all….and counting!

When I look at pictures like this of my Grandparents children I’m at a loss for words. All these people came from the union of just those two Grandparents of mine. They didn’t have a lot of money, but they were truly rich.

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Weary Lent

March 2nd, 2015 by Aubri

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The Transfiguration of Our Lord

March 1st, 2015 by Aubri

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Still catching up on some posts I’ve wanted to make this past month. The season of Epiphany ended with the Feast of the Transfiguration. This one snuck up on me, so did Lent this year. And every morning does too. How does 7 am role around so quickly everyday??!!

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We celebrated the day by drinking Transfiguration Floats after supper. I’ve never given my babies “pop” so this was quite a treat. I used Sprite instead of Coke. I thought that would make a better “cloud.” It was fun watching Jesus, Moses and Elijah (the 3 scoops of ice cream) get “overshadowed” by our Sprite cloud.

“Fulfiller of the past
And hope of things to be,
We hail Thy body glorified
And our redemption see.”

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