Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Merry Christmas...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
It's December 25th...Merry Christmas!

"And the angel said to them, 'Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord...and suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying,

GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST, AND ON EARTH PEACE AMONG THOSE WITH WHOM HE IS PLEASED."
~ Luke 2: 10-14

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 

kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com
Kanakuk Kamps...the best summer camp ever.

Tuesday, December 24, 2013

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year...

Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
It's Christmas Eve (day) technically...I hope everyone is surrounded with family, friends and the deep soul calling that this holiday is so much more than trees, candles, presents, food and even family time...

Remember...

Be awesome & Love Jesus,

kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com
Kanakuk Kamps...the best summer camp ever.

Monday, December 23, 2013

Stop the Insta-Madness...

Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Okay, ya'll know I can have a soap box on social media (again, I realize the somewhat irony of that statement considering I am writing it on a BLOG). But you know what I mean...the craze and obsession and overall unhealthy and shallow, unconnected culture it is creating...shew, okay, moving on...

I found this and it was too much...seriously, Instalike Christmas...what does it mean? What does it even do? DON'T ANSWER ME. Today is December 23...2 days before Christmas. I know it's so fun to take pictures...but don't let it take over memories. I know it's awesome to spend 20 minutes on a collage or filtering a photo over and over...but don't let it take over the 20 minutes your grandfather sat in the old leather chair by himself. I know it's awesome to scroll and scroll and scroll and scroll and scroll through The Twitter...but don't let it take over you rolling a dice for a fun family game day.

Social media = not bad...when done with moderation and healthy boundaries. Have some this Christmas. Put the phone by the door all together and make the memories that will be forever in your heart...not instalikes needed.

Be awesome & Love Jesus,

kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com
Kanakuk Kamps...the best summer camp ever.

Sunday, December 22, 2013

Little Drummer Boy...



Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
I love this Christmas Carol...it's traditional, precious and more precious. (My vocabulary is oozing right now)...

Anyways, I saw this floating around Facebook land and love this acapello group from The Sing Off. Love this take on it...Enjoy!

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 

kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com
Kanakuk Kamps...best summer camp ever.

Friday, December 20, 2013

The "Kid" Christmas Tree...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Growing up in my childhood there is such a distinct memory with Christmas...THE KID TREE VS. THE FANCY SCHMANCY FORMAL TREE. I must admit I loved the pretty all white, themed out in gold bows, ornaments and angels tree that my momma did. But people...I LOVED the kid tree. It was all tacky, crazy colored lights (the pic above was just on the internet of a "kid" tree. it's not actually one I had growing up or anyone I know), the old bubble lights my dad is all sentimental on, popsicle snowflakes, bad 1st grade pictures on foam ornaments, handprints that were all smudged, and not an inch of open space when we were done. Hence I loved it...

I now in our home have just 1 tree...just a kid tree. It's white lights are simple and lovely at night but it's surrounded by ornaments that already hold value...not because they have the littles birthdays or perfectly sparkly snowflake but because it's full of memories already of OUR family. Construction paper tree ornaments with stickers, deformed gingerbread men b/c 2 year olds don't know where 3 buttons have to go to make a normal gingerbread ornament, so many ornaments with "2006" on them for the year the hubs and I got married (how did i trick him into that! woohoo!)...so I'll stick with my "family" tree for now and let's be honest for many, many years to come.

What's your tree like? (If you have a fancy formal tree...rock on! I have nothing against them as my momma still loves a good formal tree! However grandkids have changed her on her formality...it's filled again with grandkid ornaments! haha! we won!)

Be awesome & Love Jesus,

kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com
Kanakuk Kamps...the best summer camp ever.

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Christmas Traditions...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Look how cute wooden Santa is in this picture with all those perfectly sparkly circle lights. Don't you just want to cuddle him...no? Just me, cool!

Traditions: by the Ashley Robbins dictionary it means things, stuff, or events that always happen. Webster will be calling soon I'm sure to help define some other words that need some clarification.

What are yours? Maybe you don't have any...create some. Maybe you have one you dream of doing with your family...do it.

Here are some of Ours...
1. Advent calendar based on mostly experiences...not spending more money, honey.
2. Opening 1 gift on Christmas Eve...usually our stocking.
3. Going to SDC to look at lights (this is done in November as that is when they have Branson local/tourism free dates)
4. Buying an ornament for each kid for each year and then they will have a box full that I get to give them when they get married...if that's in their story. Side note: I buy that years ornament after Christmas for like $0.50 on clearance. I write on the box or the ornament the name of little and year.
5. Hot cocoa is like a flowing river at our house during December. Our cocoa motion machine (yes, that's a real thing and yes I have one and yes, i'm obsessed with it) is like my best friend. If I was on The Twitter, I would tweet pics of me and my cocoa machine with clever statements all the time...hence why I am actually NOT on The Tweeter Twitt world.

Okay, go conversate with your family...I don't think conversate is a word...again, holler Webster...

Be awesome & Love Jesus,

kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Monday, December 16, 2013

What Does Christmas Mean to You...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Just a rhetorical question for you to ponder in your heart...

What does Christmas mean to you?

Be awesome & Love Jesus,

kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com
kanakuk kamps...best summer camp ever

Friday, December 13, 2013

Free Printable "Golden" Ticket...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Okay, by "golden ticket" I hope no one thought they needed to go buy a chocolate bar and were one step closer to the Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory. This golden ticket is even better...seriously, chocolate and candy aren't that great for you all in all.

This perfectly FREE printable is from us to you if you want an awesome little way to give the gift that truly invests 10 times back into your child or teen. You can go HERE to get the free printable.

Below is an example of one filled in with the name and terms...how cute would this be! Make sure to have your camera ready when they see this new ornament on the tree or this ticket in their stocking...


Be awesome & Love Jesus,

kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com
kanakuk kamps...best summer camp ever

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Break Anyone?...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Doesn't this picture make you just want to lay in the sand with golden waves...just me? Weird.

We loved our turkey break but December is starting to have the call of the wild...ya know what that wild call is calling...It's almost Christmas break...yeah, there is a call...listen carefully...

Okay, no call...but Christmas break is coming. For some of your college crazies you have already begun. Don't rub it in. For most of you high schoolers...you got some time to go. So buckle in to those chairs that are so not comfortable in your english lit class and drink H2O (that's water. I'm so not a fan of all those crazy energy drinks that have large animals on them) and tune in. Your brain wants you to, I promise.

The breaks coming...

Be awesome & Love Jesus,

kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com
kanakuk kamps...the best summer camp ever

Monday, December 9, 2013

Christmas Trees...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Oh, twinkly lights...I want you in my house and life and soul everday...why is it only appropriate to have Christmas lights at Christmas. Good thing I live in Branson so I can have Christmas decorations for like 3 months! It's awesome!

This tree above I just love...it's simple. Oh, let's keep December simple...keep your stress over what to wear to your 14th Christmas party minimal...be like this tree...real, simple, charming, lovely, and just precious.

Be like the tree...

Be awesome & Love Jesus,

kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Friday, December 6, 2013

Ponder on Her Ponderings...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
You really won't get the title unless you know who this picture is...above is Sam Ponder (well, I knew her as Samantha Steele). I interviewied her years ago and she came and was a part of our K2 family for a summer. She was young, passionate about the Lord and have lived a crazy life of getting her foot in the door of ESPN at a young age with no "higher" education. Her story made my jaw drop as far as the doors that she had walked through and the hands she had shaken.

So it's no surprise that Sam is still a big deal in the world of sports that is ESPN but to me she is a big deal b/c of her passion, her unwavering security in Jesus and her authenticity of just being her. I claim in no way to be her best friend but am proud to say I have sat on a swing for a few hours in a summer that I felt blessed to walk beside her for a bit...

I came across this article that I thought was so "Sam." Real. Raw. Not overly spiritual. Just her. Just who Jesus made her. Please take time to read...

Click HERE for the awesome read...

Be awesome & Love Jesus,

kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Family Media Agreement...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Just to follow up on Josh Straub's message yesterday (I'm the worst at watching stuff but I'm just praying you did!). Here is a link to two things that we are doing in our household (don't have to tackle to much of the family one yet since our kids are littles but love the marriage e-Nup)

1. Click here for a link to a marriage e-nup. Some of these I must admit are pretty extreme but tweek it for what works and is healthy. I sometimes put in work hours at night (all littles are in bed) which I need to do to help our family...or while husband watches "DaBears" I might do some Pinteresting...that's okay. Talk through the health of your marriage versus Social Media. Remember it is slow and steady how it infuses in...so just be extreme if need be.

2. Click here for the family media agreement. Click on the Family Media Agreement. Love this one so much!!!

Again remember I am not "bashing" the culture of Social Media...not my heart. Just balance and using it for GOOD...which can be fuzzy!

Be awesome & Love Jesus,

kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Monday, December 2, 2013

I Want to Help You Learn to LOVE BETTER, NOT FEEL BETTER...





Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Goodness, I am begging you (PARENTS, YOUNG MARRIEDS, YOUNG CAREER, COLLEGE, YOUTH, JUNIOR HIGH) to watch this sermon. It was a slap in the face reality check of how to write love on the tablets of our hearts within the slow and deafening voice of social media culture we are now in. Seriously!! I am begging you to watch...the statistics alone will leave you baffled and ready to fight for this generation...

Best takeaway from Josh was this...I want to help teach ____ (he used his son) to LOVE BETTER, not just feel better.

Be awesome & Love Jesus,

kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Friday, November 29, 2013

What Do You Think I'm Trying to Say...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Get the message...don't let it just be one day...
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Be awesome & Love Jesus,

kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Thursday, November 28, 2013

Happy Thanksgiving...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Happy Thanksgiving! I hope your days are filled with love, laughter and truly being thankful for whatever is around you...family, friends, food, a Macy's day parade tradition that makes you cry if you miss, and lots of love!

Thankful for KANAKUK Kamps and YOU!

Be awesome & Love Jesus,

kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Monday, November 25, 2013

What I Wish I Could Tell My Teenager Self about...FAMILY...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Wouldn't it be incredible if we could look back on life and go back to our teenage self, college self, young mother self and tell us some valuable things that we needed to know at the time. Before you get all emotional that I am going to tell you all these valuable things...make sure we are defining valuable correctly. Valuable may just be simple tips, funny ramblings or deep theological statements. Prepare yourself. Today I thought I would post on what I would tell me teenage self about FAMILY...since Thanksgiving is just around the corner...

1. You are not Queen of the World...Your mom and dad and siblings were not put on this earth to revolve around you. Stop acting like they were. Go help your mom, make your bed, play with your siblings, and lay in your dad's lap and let him draw pictures on your back. You are a PART of the family.

2. Enjoy your mom...I was such a brat in high school. Don't get me wrong I was nice, polite and looked like a "good girl." But honey child to my momma I was a brat. She should have slapped me cross the head at least 3 times a day for my tone, my attitude and my all around mean spirit to her. It was just not nice. Moms and daughters during teenage years just battle...quit seeing your mom as an idiot and see her as the first person who would lay down her life for you and wants nothing but the best...even if your thoughts are different than hers. Sit down and talk to her, listen to stories and just be with her.

3. Learn from generations past...have you ever asked your grandma to tell her story? What she was like in high school? What was her favorite gift for Christmas when she was your age? How did she meet your grandpa? Oh such great questions and ones we must ask to the generations before us. Sit at her feet or your grandpa's feet and really listen. Be engaged with slow conversation, be aware of this life well lived. Just be with them...

4. Your siblings are your future best friends...what if we quit seeing family as forced and started to see them as our best friends. I love my brothers and come holidays they are the only folks I want to be with. Their family. PERIOD. Laugh with them, join in on video games to connect with them, play games (like board ones, or outside ones...not ones on your silly phones!)

5. PUT DOWN YOUR PHONE with your family. Oh, girls, please don't be those girls that misses being with their family b/c you are facebooking about how much you love your family and instagramming silly pictures of your family every other second...that means you are just on your phone the whole time. Make a pile of phone during the holidays (honestly I make our Kanakuk Institute "adopted" students do this when they come for dinner at our house) and take one pic and be done and be with them!

So there are 5 little tips...they might not go down in theological doctrine but I wish I would have known them (except #5...it was for your generation as I didn't have a cell phone till college).

Be awesome & Love Jesus,

kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Friday, November 22, 2013

Please Learn to Cope...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Coping is like a soap box for me (I do know what coping means but not the phrase "soap box"...hmm, interesting?).  I, being a licensed professional (joke!), think I can solve the world if this generation could simply learn and execute how to cope...

Please don't get all huffy and start snorting like a rhinoceros about how it's Jesus...for me and this blog that is given. We need Jesus, grace and love...desperately. But even great kamp kids come through every summer and I walk away from conversations wondering why are they coping with _____ (fill in the blank) but doing the strangest and most illogical form of harm, thoughts or lifestyle choices. I mean horrible...sometime honestly so odd that I have to watch my facial expressions to you all...I get scared by it. I get all, "Jesus, come back please!" Somehow I think that coping has been lost in dealing with life and teaching this generation to do so. My mom tells me about some of her interactions with parents these days in the education world and it baffles me...truly! It's somehow never the child's fault in anything with papers, tests or quizzes...Have we yanked all chances for our child to cope with failure or hurt or not getting what they want...

I, by no means perfect, have already started to tell the littles (the ones that can understand me at this point) that they don't always get what they want. I continue and say "you should learn this about life now." The ways the enemy is showing you all to cope is just scary and horrific and harmful and filled with LIES. When you get left out, you take to drama queen role and get all crazy gossip girl. When you get a bad grade, you manipulate it to miscommunication of teacher student role or the teacher doesn't like you. When you get a broken heart, you don't go get ice cream and listen to Celine Dion (not that I did that, ever, really) but you desperately, and that is not a good desperate, hit the tweet airwaves and beg for him to come back or threaten that all life is lost for your soul.

Desperate souls need desperately a Savior to make them not weird desperate. Quote that folks...it's deep. To cope with hurt, fear, anxiety, loss, or whatever comes our way means we do it with authenticity...we lay in our mom's lap when a boy breaks our hearts and we cry. We tell our friend that is hurt our feelings to be left out on Friday when she invited everyone but you over and however she responds we move on in forgiving her whether she asks for it or not knowing she maybe isn't the friend you thought...side note: move on means you can still smile at her and be around her but you don't unfriend her publicly on instagram and unlike all her pics. See healthy coping versus unhealthy.

Please know I am not speaking to deep hurt from sexual abuse, loss of a parent, or deep scars. I worry that this generation puts not getting 200 likes on their new profile pic in the same category of these deep wounds because of the coping issue in our world. I always tell folks I think we all need some good counseling (not like the weird life coach stuff where they tell you to do whatever you feel and stupid statements like that) but good someone ask me great questions and remind me of Jesus, His love, His grace and His story for my life counseling.

Please...learn to cope. Learn to fail and do it well. Learn to embrace the bumps in your story and know that they hurt for a bit but they do heal. Learn that a bad day does not equate to a horrible life. It's just a bad day...

Be awesome & Love Jesus,

kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Fall and Us...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Fall...you are a beautiful time. Your leaves turn these brilliant colors like fiery oranges and reds and yellows that make the sun look dull sometimes. It's like everything is sparkling without any glitter somehow. I wish the above picture is what my walkway to my door looked like and Jesus, I wouldn't mind if this was the walkway to heaven when you return or I'm brought home...just sayin since you are preparing the place for us now...

Anyways, fall is such a great picture of us. Weird to connect to a season right? Maybe not so far fetched. Fall is a time for the leaves to burst into color but what's happening is that they are dying. The leaves are dying, they fall, the may or may not get racked into piles and bagged up or jumped into and the trees for a bit go inward to restart, regrow. The winter is bare limbs and renewal for the tree. Sweet girls/friends, this is our life at times. Times when leaves on our branches in our own lives need to die. Parts of us that the Lord needs gone or refined somehow. For most of you it's probably only one or two branches...heck, for this momma it's like the whole tree on some day (okay, okay, most days!). Oh, but shouldn't we long for our Maker to want to allow those parts to die...so that He can make us brand new with bursting healthy green leaves in our lives. I would guess if the trees could talk they would wonder why they couldn't just say all orange and red and yellow as it looks beautiful to all the eyes and cameras that behold it and instagram them...but I would also guess the Maker of those trees has to remind them (yep, the Maker and the trees are now in conversation...He's God, why not?) those leaves are dying. Though beautiful...dying. Don't hold onto the outwardly beautiful junk in your life...let the Lord, your Maker, renew your branches in your life...and spring will burst forth with a new creation (and I don't just speak of "salvation-new creation"). I pray I'm being made new each day...bring on the bare branches!

Let the beautifully-dying leaves fall in your life...

Be awesome & Love Jesus,

kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Monday, November 18, 2013

FREE Thanksgiving Printable...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
FREE PRINTABLES...those 2 words are like sweatpants and chevron...meaning I love both of them, oh, but not together (visual: chevron sweatpants...a bit much. probably. okay, whatever I'd own them). Anyways, click HERE and you can go get a free printable for your phone, wallpaper for computer, or to print. I love this!

Don't forget the message...GIVE THANKS y'all!

Be awesome & Love Jesus,

kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Wow, The Best Hot Cocoa Mix...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Okay, I have made this and yum-dilladeedee it is good! So here is the info...(I know it's a bit Christmas to think of making Hot Cocoa but I think just fall makes sense for a cup of yummy hot cocoa!)

The Best Homemade Hot Chocolate Mix
YIELD: MAKES ABOUT 20 SERVINGS OF HOT CHOCOLATE
INGREDIENTS
  • 3 cups nonfat dry milk powder
  • 2 cups powdered sugar
  • 1½ cups cocoa powder, dutch-process or natural
  • 1½ cups white chocolate chips or finely chopped white chocolate
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
DIRECTIONS
  1. Whisk together all ingredients in a large bowl. Working in two (or more) batches, depending on the size of your food processor, pulse the ingredients in a food processor until the chocolate is finely ground. Store the dry mix in an airtight container for up to 3 months.
  2. To make hot cocoa, put 1/3 cup of the cocoa mix in a mug and stir in 1 cup of hot milk. Top with whipped cream or miniature marshmallows, if desired.
Recipe Source: from Brown Eyed Baker, originally from 
Cook’s Country

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 

kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com
 

Friday, November 15, 2013

Holiday House and Wedding...

Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
This weekend will be a fun one! I will heading down for Mom and Daughter time as my mom (as per tradition of the last 3 years) spoils the pants off me (not literally cuz a girl needs pants, especially an 8 month preggo one...not that an unpreggo woman doesn't need to wear pants...in general pants needed). It's a fun few days with lots of taste testing of dips and yummies! Oogling over clothes overpriced for our target budget and spoiling of 3 littles that will remain unnamed. It is so fun! My favorite find has been this caramel dip stuff (that's the official name). Praying it's back as it makes the easiest monkey bread ever...pour caramel dip stuff, add pulled biscuits, add more caramel dip stuff, bake, insert your whole face into the monkey bread and devour!

Then it's back for a K2 wedding of sorts...Cole and Ellie will be tyin' the knot forever! Woohoo!! Shay and I adore Cole Wardell as we have walked through several years of life with him and can't wait for these 2 to say 'I Do.' It will have lots of fun K2 folks there so I'm sure the reunion will be so fun too! (side note the picture below makes me laugh as there is a bird/quail thing on the mantel. just their furry friend, I guess).

Go have a great weekend friends...with people! Real people, not your likes on Instagram...


Be awesome & Love Jesus,

kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Thankful Jar...

Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
I realize we are almost half way through November and I honestly meant to post this sooner but thankfulness can come at any point...right?

Okay, so I want everyone to put on their crafting hat and make a thankful jar, give thanks vase, whatever you would like to call it...

You just get crafty, cut some paper and each day everyone in the family writes down something they are thankful for...funny, sweet, detailed, big picture...just whatever their little hearts want to.

Go little Marthas...

Be awesome & Love Jesus,

kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Monday, November 11, 2013

Check This Out...

Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
I mean c'mon...this is exciting! Here's the deal...this year let's make "bringing a friend to kamp" mean something. How about you get a new kamper to sign up for Kamp and we will sponsor a teen to Kids Across America. It's a total win-win! Seriously...go get someone to sign up...

Here are the deets...(yeah, I'm trendy and relevant...okay, I'm really not)

You bring a friend to @kanakukk2, we'll send a teen to @KAAUKNOW. Have friends use the code K2KAA2014 when registering.

Go...do this. It's only awesomeness that can come from it.

Be awesome & Love Jesus,


kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Enjoy...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Just a quick simple word for the day...enjoy! Enjoy today...what that could mean?

1. enjoy your crazy hair that you wish looked like ____ (fill in the blank)
2. enjoy your mom squeezing your neck as she drops you off at school
3. enjoy your lunch that is more than some kiddos get in a week
4. enjoy your teachers that are trying to teach you something
5. enjoy your spirit that the Lord has specifically knit in you

Enjoy today sweet girls!

Be awesome & Love Jesus,

kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Friday, November 8, 2013

Headphones...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
I mean I love walking to beats just as much as the next mommy of 3 also very pregnant person. I mean I have swag and I can see how headphones helps in the swag department...

My hubs was traveling a few weeks ago for kamp and called and was blown away that literally everyone on college campuses always have headphones on...always. He said athletes, girls, guys...everyone. He laughed saying he felt like a loser b/c he didn't have headphones. We both thought about this later and it didn't sit well...not in a stomach flu kind of way but in a deep in my soul kind of way.

I remember (I won't start talking about how I walked to school in snow with no shoes "back in the day") when I was in college I loved walking through campus and actually saying HI. "Hi" to friends I knew and wait for the shocker, "Hi" to strangers. Not in a stop and talk and get creepy kind of way but in a very normal social interaction way.

I know this is a soap box but I just want to keep fighting the war on real life people interaction. I seriously get nervous with how technology has changed everything that the one area it has really screwed up is the real life connection. I remember just last night wanting to thank a girlfriend for bringing me food while I had a little stomach bug and I thought oh, she loves instagram I bet she would love it if I could tell the world about...WHY? That's not a knock on her. I texted just her and it meant just the same b/c she is my dear friend. But WHY did I have the thought of desiring to share that with people that weren't involved...like that makes it more real or tangible or legitimate.

Drop your headphones...walk through your campus or hallways with no earphones and smile at a new face or say hello to a teacher in the hallway between classes. Don't lose humans...

Be awesome & Love Jesus,

kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com