{"id":489,"date":"2017-12-20T11:57:43","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T17:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/?p=489"},"modified":"2017-12-22T15:34:41","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T21:34:41","slug":"our-annual-christmas-cookie-exchange-at-sweet-wednesdays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/20\/our-annual-christmas-cookie-exchange-at-sweet-wednesdays\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Annual Christmas Cookie Exchange at Sweet Wednesdays!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"488\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/20\/our-annual-christmas-cookie-exchange-at-sweet-wednesdays\/img_7710\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/img_7710.jpg?fit=4032%2C3024\" data-orig-size=\"4032,3024\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"img_7710\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/img_7710.jpg?fit=1024%2C768\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-488\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/img_7710.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/img_7710.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/img_7710.jpg?resize=768%2C576 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/img_7710.jpg?resize=1024%2C768 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/img_7710.jpg?w=2000 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/img_7710.jpg?w=3000 3000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our final Sweet Wednesdays of the year culminated in our annual Christmas Cookie exchange over at Jo-Ann&#8217;s house.\u00a0 (She&#8217;s actually been doing this even before we started our Sweet Wednesdays tradition!\u00a0 In fact this was the inspiration for us to start up Sweet Wednesday in the first place =)<\/p>\n<p>All the girls had fun and we even had Joelle come up from Chicago to join us!\u00a0 (We&#8217;ll try to coordinate a few more interactions in 2018 between Chicago and Milwaukee chapters of the LIGHT!).<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, the fellowship was awesome and we comforted each other by telling ourselves that God loved us so much that He not only gave us His Only Begotten son but also miraculous zero-calorie cookies!\u00a0 (OK, even if we are lying to ourselves, Jesus did came to forgive us of our self-deception =)<\/p>\n<p>All in all we had a blast (always so good when our husbands aren&#8217;t around to see us girls pig out!)<\/p>\n<p>Wishing you all a very, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 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