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ou magazine ran such a challenge last year and i found it quite helpful mid summer to practice that month of thrift did you know that the cost of living has risen 40 over the last four years did you know that there is a prediction that beef and dairy costs are about to skyrocket upwards let s compare those statements with the fact of no raise in pay for the past five years in our household our income is the same as it was five years ago it s no wonder that the stretching and pulling and tugging to make ends meet has been such a challenge and we re apparently due still more exercise continue at june 21 2012 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest broken i ve had a difficult time setting down on paper the rest of my sabbatical thoughts i thought i would continue with an enumerated list picking up where i left off but that isn t working for me every time i d have a thought an idea until the moment the new post screen popped up the thought was gone the idea dead i sat here and stared at the blankness trying to think what i had to say i ve done this for a week since my last post it s not that i have nothing more to say it s that our emotions were so strained and our prayers so much more fervent towards the end that it s difficult to tell what we were going through john broke down and cried i spent more time weeping quietly i kept reading about the anointing of joy about the oil of joy and all i felt inside was not joy surely i kept thinking surely with all this time spent with god with all this pressing in i d find joy it wasn t that i was blind to the blessings in my life it was just that i was looking out of a broken window continue at june 20 2012 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels shabat thoughts weekly menu it s gonna be a scorcher out there i happened to see weather reports as i was flipping through channels on the tv very very early this morning we ve had relatively mild weather so far but to welcome in the summer equinox next week we re slated for some hot days still below 100f but hot all the same and possibly drawing near the 100f mark with the heat index which means it will fill like it did at the end of winter early spring here screwy seasons this year lol i didn t get half done that i d thought i might today i had unexpected company two different sets of company and that was distracting kind of cut deep into a planned work day but i ll manage to get things accomplished a bit here and a bit there over the next few days i d thought i d hunt out a sunday nap but it s proven elusive so on to other work like eating cookies and sipping cool water and admiring the paint job on the storm door unplanned task that turned out very nicely indeed washing a handful of dishes planning a handful of meals for the week ahead lovely summer sunday continue at june 17 2012 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thrifty thursday frugal friday homemade cookies to fill the cookie jars on the counter i can t tell you how often these days i almost pick up a package of cookies only to say oh but i can do homemade and know that they will taste so much better than anything i can buy friday i did housework friday morning then i packed up the car and went off to town it s what i didn t buy that day that saved me tons of money i dropped off trash and then went into the post office to drop off a bill we were paying then over to the next town s grocery this grocery has a fair selection of potted plants trouble was the selection was not as good as usual i saw lovely coleus but i d just planted a bunch of seeds of that in my pots and while i had a very clear idea of a planter mix of plants i wanted to pot up they only had one of the variety of plants i needed i wanted petunias but none to be had sad face here finally i decided that while i d gone with a set limit to spend i didn t have to spend it i could save it until i could go further afield for a better selection i did buy one geranium a lovely variegated red pink petal affair unlike any i ve ever seen continue at june 15 2012 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest what i ve learned during this sabbatical as this week winds down towards the conclusion of our sabbatical time i want to share a bit more about it it s been a very intense and important time in our lives we ve prayed for answers to certain questions that have yet to be answered but we ve been busy getting answers in other areas i daresay it resembles housekeeping i might know i ve labored long and hard in my home cleaning out closets and drawers but to someone who is an outsider unfamiliar with what my home looked like behind the scenes it might well look as though i ve done nothing much whatsoever if you keep house or help keep house you know how very untrue that is if you don t bother then you have no idea lol today as i worked i thought about what i ve learned there are truths that have come to light and maybe these are truths you have already found or you need to hear them so you can discover them for yourself 1 when you say to god i no longer want to keep you in a box i want to know you better he will show you how many different ways you spend your time shoving him in a box do you think that the only time you need to spend with him is in church do you think the only time you need to think about him daily is when you settle for prayers if you remember them do you think god is unable to accept you in your human ness do you think god can only relate to you when you re being spiritual do you separate the places in your life where you re willing to let him operate do you think god doesn t already know all about you no i didn t come to all these revelations during this time but gradually over the years however there are still many ways in which i personally must fight my tendency to categorize box up and organize god into a neat parcel god doesn t need my awesome organization skills he is orderly already he can t be encompassed in a box but i can limit him by my unwillingness to let him work in my life god knows i m messy and human he knew me before he formed me continue at june 14 2012 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels shabat thoughts weekly menu we plan to go to the meat market this week when we do our grocery shopping i ve got plenty of room in the freezer enough to see we ve got a few things we need to use up that s the advantage of letting the meat supply decrease i don t know about you but even with my basket system i tend to use what s on top and plan from there sometimes forgetting about what s nearer the bottom rhonda asked me last week if we were cutting back on meat we are not because of health reasons but because john and i agreed that for our budget s sake we d rather eat a little less and have better quality meat from the meat market rather than subpar meat all of the time often these days we eat a smaller portion of meat just as a well seasoned dish tastes better than a bland one i ve learned that having better quality foods is more satisfying continue at june 10 2012 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thrifty thursday second hand furniture is inexpensive often far better quality than higher priced new pieces friday john and i had such a big day on thursday he golfed i was out looking for sandals that we did almost nothing at all on friday except recuperate we split the light housework between us and then enjoyed our leisure time i read went through magazines and collected coupons recipes and ideas to clip there was a lot of entertainment and value from that free stack of magazines i d brought home from mama s on tuesday dinner sweet and sour chicken i cooked two boneless skinless breasts put aside half the meat for this week s southwestern chicken salad i prepared the vegetables for this dish and chopped vegetables for the next day s dinner side dish easy sweet and sour sauce 1 cup pineapple juice 1 tbsp brown sugar 1 tbsp cornstarch 1 tbsp catsup cooked and stirred until thickened this is good in a stir fry dish as sauce but equally as good for dipping eggrolls cooked ahead making up a casserole dish of mac and cheese for tomorrow s meal i had a bit of leftover cheese sauce and some leftover macaroni which i set aside to make tuna mac salad for work lunch next week continue at june 07 2012 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest menu day i took a few hours last weekend to make out a month of menus to use this month i find cooking very tedious when the weather is too warm to very hot unfortunately i still like to eat lol it s a struggle to think of good meals when i know that cooking means heating up my home and myself to that end i went through two or three of my cookbooks and chose a few recipes i ve already begun employing this menu as of june 1 new recipes mixed with old favorites leftovers pre planned into meals i think this is going to prove to help save money as well as time and those unfortunate heat flares i experience in the summer kitchen continue at june 03 2012 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest what i read watched in may may was a lovely month truly it was i so enjoyed every moment of it we were blessed to attend a young girl s homeschool graduation party which was just lovely went on field trips and picnics and vacation on top of that all of this and the regular work too i don t think i ve had such a lovely may before this one sets itself apart as special i was able to read a few books this month some i started in april and didn t finish until this month so i count them as read this month i watched a few movies too first those books started in april and finished in may year of plenty by craig l goodwin i ve been drawn to books about families individuals who are returning to the old way of raising their own vegetables forage etc that s what i expected from this book it is based upon the blog by the same name this is the third sort of book i ve read this year while this book is named after the blog the basis is loose it is more about the christian walk that this pastor and his family experienced while eating and shopping locally some of the insights he gained really really touched my heart and helped me to see what is missing in my own christian walk like a sense of community and unity with others i read this book slowly i needed to in order to digest all that was said often i found myself reading passages out loud to john because they so closely paralleled what we were thinking and praying over if you want to read all about the technicalities of eating locally and shopping local artisans and businesses gardening and raising chickens then skip this book and read the blog www yearofplenty org if you want to read a book that enhances your christian walk and talks about these things then by all means choose to read it continue at june 03 2012 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sabbatical thoughts i don t know if i ve mentioned here upon the blog but since april 7 of this year we ve been taking a sabbatical from synagogue we d come to a time where we had more questions than answers were feeling confused we felt as though we were battling on too many fronts at once after long late night heart to heart talks periodic outbursts and a series of incidents that left us feeling more confused than ever we finally decided that the best thing we could do was to step away for a space of time i suggested a month john as head priest of our household had other ideas he decided upon a longer period of time we have about two more weeks before we return i don t share this now because i wish to boast or brag i want to share it because spiritually it s been very intense we didn t say to ourselves we ll have a free saturday for a bit nor set aside our bibles instead we increased our prayer time bible study and sought god more than ever at first i thought we d withdraw completely from life and simply study and pray as we d done for a period once before but our lives didn t allow that just now mama had doctors appointments and john had to work the kids popped in for visits we were obligated to go to this place or to do that and then there were the unexpected things that kept popping up i realized slowly that the real challenge of sabbatical was to be in sabbatical while living a normal life to make time for extra prayer and study and seeking god on a daily basis while tending to all the rest that was the challenge and we did i learned that the steering wheel is as good an altar as any as is the kitchen sink and the broom and the laundry that needs to be folded i learned that time spent in a chair waiting at the doctor was just as good a place for prayer all 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