Wow, can you believe how time flies? This begins the busy season for our family. We have 8 birthdays, Mother's Day, Father's Day, 4th of July and much more to celebrate between now and September. The three oldest will be going to Christian teen camp this year. That also means that I need to plan some special things for the children left at home. We will have VBS in June. Also, there's a few preacher's fellowships to help work at as well. On top of all of this we'll have our gardening. Many days we'll be swimming in the pool.
Oh, you know, I think it's be fun for the children to experience swimming in a lake like James and I did all our growing up years. So I think I'll make that into the bucket list this year.
As far as writing a few E-books. I will compile some things together and see if the content is worthy of sharing. I mean, anything that I know is not anything new under the sun. So, really, the 411 would be things compiled from many sources over many years. Sure, I've had some "ah-ha" moments and don't know where the ideas came from but surely they couldn't be origional. So, we'll see what transpires of the summer.
When it comes to school, we have 8 days left with two of those days doubled up. This is unless we want to run school into the next week, of which I don't. As for summer, I need a big stack of drill sheets for the children on adding, subtracting and multiplying. Between that, reading and science we'll be good.
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Summer Project....Writing a Book?
I've been told many times that I should write a book. I always chuckled at the thought but recently I have been encouraged to do just that. So, Lord willing, I am planning on writing an ebook this summer. Right now, I would ask that you please pray that I can do this and also have the know how on getting it together. I am not a techy and so that just might be the hard part.
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Happy Tuesday!
Wow, time goes fast. It's been a week since I blogged last. We've been busy with these last weeks of the school year. Also, on Saturday we went to some yard sales. I found some good deals. Maybe I'll take some picks when I get around to posting some pics of the hoosier type cabinet.
As for groceries in April. I stayed right at $455 for the month. I am thrilled with that! My main goals as of late is to make sure I use cash instead of the debit card. I want to use the debit card only at the gas pumps. So, I will have an envelope for household and another for groceries. What's left over can hopefully go into another envelope for a special treat....maybe a small camping trip or something.....but with yard sale season here, I may be using the leftovers for that. Ha!
I did a very big grocery trip this past Friday and have a balance to go toward May already. We went to Aldi and found some great days there! I was able to rack up on some of the produce deals there. Their oranges are so good and are as sweet as candy. Yummy!
We have revival services this week from Wednesday through Sunday. I am soooo excited for this. Only thing is that our littlest has a fever and now a sore throat. Blah! I was hoping that this was going to pass by the little ones. At least four of us has come down with a bad cold. It's been going all around. I'll be glad to get rid of it and hope it flees before tomorrow night... the fever anyway.
Okay, I'd better go and get going. I have to do some banking, pump gas and and stop in at the post office.We have school and chores as well. We have 14 days of school left (counting today). Oh, I may go by the feed and seed store as well. Have a blessed day in the Lord!
As for groceries in April. I stayed right at $455 for the month. I am thrilled with that! My main goals as of late is to make sure I use cash instead of the debit card. I want to use the debit card only at the gas pumps. So, I will have an envelope for household and another for groceries. What's left over can hopefully go into another envelope for a special treat....maybe a small camping trip or something.....but with yard sale season here, I may be using the leftovers for that. Ha!
I did a very big grocery trip this past Friday and have a balance to go toward May already. We went to Aldi and found some great days there! I was able to rack up on some of the produce deals there. Their oranges are so good and are as sweet as candy. Yummy!
We have revival services this week from Wednesday through Sunday. I am soooo excited for this. Only thing is that our littlest has a fever and now a sore throat. Blah! I was hoping that this was going to pass by the little ones. At least four of us has come down with a bad cold. It's been going all around. I'll be glad to get rid of it and hope it flees before tomorrow night... the fever anyway.
Okay, I'd better go and get going. I have to do some banking, pump gas and and stop in at the post office.We have school and chores as well. We have 14 days of school left (counting today). Oh, I may go by the feed and seed store as well. Have a blessed day in the Lord!
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Catching Up
Hello all of my blogging friends! I trust that you are doing well! The Lord has been gracious and gives me more than I deserve. :D Here's a blog of random to catch up on what's going on in our home and family.
~Last week we headed to a camp meeting that we go to every year. The preaching and singing was a blessing. I hope to put a little up on my YouTube channel once I capture time to do it.
~We had spring break last week and while not at the camp meeting, we enjoyed a little time of tennis and relaxing. We also had some friends over on Friday.
~We had a tire misbehaving on the way back from camp meeting. On Saturday James and I went to get it repaired, thinking that it just needed balancing. As it turns out, it was about to BLOW! Mr. Tire Man showed us how it was bulging and how it could have blown out at any time. God is gracious to have kept us from being in a wreck.
~ While at the tire repair place, we headed over the the yard sale next door. There seems to be a yard sale at this same location, in a parking lot every week. I spotted a hoosier type cabinet and got all giddy. Anyone that knows me well knows that I've wanted either a pie safe or a hoosier cabinet as my "china cabinet" for quite a few years now. So, low and behold, there was one at this sale. Albeit, it is in terrible shape but we got it for $60. We plan to fix it up and while it is in bad shape now, I enjoy seeing it in our dining room. We are going to be doing some stripping and sanding but, boy howdy, I am thrilled! This can be my Mother's Day, Christmas and birthday in one for all I care. :D
~ We have 19 days of school left, counting today. I. AM. SO. EXCITED. :D Granted, in the summer we'll still focus on science and I'll continue with phonics. The rest of the summer, I plan on us tying stronger ties with one another, enjoying the Lord's goodness and striving to walk in His will better every day.
~ As for gardening, we have potatoes, onions and corn growing. I think that's about it right now. We need to do some tomatoes, squash, cucumbers and okra. Once we harvest our potatoes and corn, we'll put in some beans and peas.
~James' work is going well. He is still on 5 days a week but we figure it won't be too long that they will switch him to 4 days. When it gets warm here, the slow season begins.
~ I repainted our front porch furniture. I need another can or red painting to finish our metal glider. I painted it red and white. I think it's super cute. We also painted the porch floor. I wiped down the siding under the porch as well. This was all done in a day and I couldn't imagine being more tired than I was that evening! It was all worth it though. It's like another room to me now. We bought some ferns for $6 each and set those out as well.
Okay, I have a wee one wanting cereal poured so I must go. Have a blessed day in the Lord!
~Last week we headed to a camp meeting that we go to every year. The preaching and singing was a blessing. I hope to put a little up on my YouTube channel once I capture time to do it.
~We had spring break last week and while not at the camp meeting, we enjoyed a little time of tennis and relaxing. We also had some friends over on Friday.
~We had a tire misbehaving on the way back from camp meeting. On Saturday James and I went to get it repaired, thinking that it just needed balancing. As it turns out, it was about to BLOW! Mr. Tire Man showed us how it was bulging and how it could have blown out at any time. God is gracious to have kept us from being in a wreck.
~ While at the tire repair place, we headed over the the yard sale next door. There seems to be a yard sale at this same location, in a parking lot every week. I spotted a hoosier type cabinet and got all giddy. Anyone that knows me well knows that I've wanted either a pie safe or a hoosier cabinet as my "china cabinet" for quite a few years now. So, low and behold, there was one at this sale. Albeit, it is in terrible shape but we got it for $60. We plan to fix it up and while it is in bad shape now, I enjoy seeing it in our dining room. We are going to be doing some stripping and sanding but, boy howdy, I am thrilled! This can be my Mother's Day, Christmas and birthday in one for all I care. :D
~ We have 19 days of school left, counting today. I. AM. SO. EXCITED. :D Granted, in the summer we'll still focus on science and I'll continue with phonics. The rest of the summer, I plan on us tying stronger ties with one another, enjoying the Lord's goodness and striving to walk in His will better every day.
~ As for gardening, we have potatoes, onions and corn growing. I think that's about it right now. We need to do some tomatoes, squash, cucumbers and okra. Once we harvest our potatoes and corn, we'll put in some beans and peas.
~James' work is going well. He is still on 5 days a week but we figure it won't be too long that they will switch him to 4 days. When it gets warm here, the slow season begins.
~ I repainted our front porch furniture. I need another can or red painting to finish our metal glider. I painted it red and white. I think it's super cute. We also painted the porch floor. I wiped down the siding under the porch as well. This was all done in a day and I couldn't imagine being more tired than I was that evening! It was all worth it though. It's like another room to me now. We bought some ferns for $6 each and set those out as well.
Okay, I have a wee one wanting cereal poured so I must go. Have a blessed day in the Lord!
Friday, April 5, 2013
Happy Friday, Y'all!
I hope you all are having a great Friday. Ours is going fine. Okay, so this morning I went to the produce stand and spent $8.07. I am up to like $418 now. I am at a goal right now. I want to allow myself THREE stops to a grocery store/stand, etc. for the rest of the month. The rest of the time I want to use what we have here at home. I figured that this will be one grocery store run and then one produce stand run....nothing to a massive dollar amount either time as well. Perhaps we can keep this down to $475 this month. If we can do this then I will be thinking that $450 average will be our new trend.
The Reid's sale I went to was awesome. They have either a one or three day sale every month or two. So I wanted to enjoy this while we could. :D
The Reid's sale I went to was awesome. They have either a one or three day sale every month or two. So I wanted to enjoy this while we could. :D
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