I am constantly trying to get my life more organized, and a couple months ago I started planning my meals ahead so that I wouldn't be scrambling around at 3 o'clock with no meat defrosted and no idea what I am going to cook for our supper meal. And I fell in love with it! I loved planning my meals out. I had a whole month written out and probably would have done more except I felt slightly nerdy.
But nerdy is ok if it works! But I have discovered a flaw in the whole meal-planning thing. If you don't keep it up, eventually you run out of meals. Which is where I am today. I haven't looked at my meal plan calendar this past week, and consequently I have nothing planned past yesterday. This is unfortunate. Now I have to sit down and figure out what I am going to do, and that is the worst part.
On the upside, it's advance pay-day so I will have some money for grocery shopping! Hurray! This means no more chicken soup with only celery and homemade noodles (which we had last Wednesday. It was tasty, just a little boring. Not even any saltine crackers to put in!).
So I can plan my meals without having to seriously consider what we have in the house since I can go shopping again. But I am also trying to be a little more frugal with my grocery shopping since we have a bad habit of just running to the store whenever we need something. I want to make more budget friendly meals. Or just budget friendly meal planning.
I think my next post I write will be about my lack of effective communication skills, as this post is an excellent example of.
Monday, May 16, 2011
Saturday, May 14, 2011
One Person's Junk is Another Person's Treasure...
And now to break the bloggy silence.
So I had a garage sale today. It was a combined effort between me and my dear friend. I call her dear because she bought me a flower yesterday. What a sweetie. I think she did it because she found out that my hubby didn't get me anything at all for Mother's Day. She was quite indignant to hear that. But I don't want her or you to get all upset for me about it. (Though I will admit it does satisfy me a little bit to have people on my side, so to speak.) I didn't remind him of it at all, and without a reminder, he doesn't get things like that done very much.
But anyways. She wasn't able to be here for it today, but if we didn't hold it today it would have to be postponed until June, since next weekend is our town's Blossom Day Festival parade and we both are planning on taking the little kidlets there. And the weekend after that we are both out of town. I was willing to host the sale without her in order to get this junk (treasure) out of my house.
But as life would have it, I still have junk in my house. It was a beautiful day, except for the stinking wind that was trying to blow everything down. But so nice and sunny that I have some burnt arms to prove it. And I got a fair turnout. Quite a lot of people came before my start time of 9 o'clock, darn early birds. That'll teach me to put out my signs early. Next time, I'm putting them out just before start time. Take that!
We made a fairly good amount of money, but there is still quite a bit of stuff leftover, so we will probably try again next month, since another friend of ours has some stuff to get rid of, but had been out of town and didn't have time to get it ready for today.
My kids kept pulling toys off the table and playing with them. I am very frustrated that these toys I'm trying to get rid of they suddenly are in love with. Just can't win. But hopefully I can hide them until next time. All in all my girls were well behaved.
So I had a garage sale today. It was a combined effort between me and my dear friend. I call her dear because she bought me a flower yesterday. What a sweetie. I think she did it because she found out that my hubby didn't get me anything at all for Mother's Day. She was quite indignant to hear that. But I don't want her or you to get all upset for me about it. (Though I will admit it does satisfy me a little bit to have people on my side, so to speak.) I didn't remind him of it at all, and without a reminder, he doesn't get things like that done very much.
But anyways. She wasn't able to be here for it today, but if we didn't hold it today it would have to be postponed until June, since next weekend is our town's Blossom Day Festival parade and we both are planning on taking the little kidlets there. And the weekend after that we are both out of town. I was willing to host the sale without her in order to get this junk (treasure) out of my house.
But as life would have it, I still have junk in my house. It was a beautiful day, except for the stinking wind that was trying to blow everything down. But so nice and sunny that I have some burnt arms to prove it. And I got a fair turnout. Quite a lot of people came before my start time of 9 o'clock, darn early birds. That'll teach me to put out my signs early. Next time, I'm putting them out just before start time. Take that!
We made a fairly good amount of money, but there is still quite a bit of stuff leftover, so we will probably try again next month, since another friend of ours has some stuff to get rid of, but had been out of town and didn't have time to get it ready for today.
My kids kept pulling toys off the table and playing with them. I am very frustrated that these toys I'm trying to get rid of they suddenly are in love with. Just can't win. But hopefully I can hide them until next time. All in all my girls were well behaved.
Friday, April 15, 2011
May I Bring You Attention To The Sidebar
I have added a button! I am so proud of myself for figuring it out. Yes, I am aware how easy it is. But this is my first time, so let me gloat. I added it because I am currently on a race to win some marvelous prizes. Over at Raising Homemakers they are having a giveaway celebrating Sarah Mae's new book '31 Days to Clean.' The giveaway ends today, so I am racing around, getting all my entries in. I don't want to miss out. But there is already something like 1460 entries (and counting) so I am not likely to win. But if I didn't try I wouldn't win at all. I did already purchse the e-book, since I wanted it whether I win or not, and I didn't want to wait. I have done Day 1, and from the looks of it I think I am going to enjoy the whole book.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Cast Your Burdens (clap clap clap) Unto Jesus (clap clap clap)
Now I am singing that kids' song in my head. Oh well. It's a good and true message!
Yesterday I was going to come on here and gripe about people and speech pathologists in particular and how they know nothing and just make your life miserable and what am I to do now and why can't life just be simple with easy-to-follow directions? But as I was getting ready to type I remembered that I have been trying to take my problems to God before I go to human wisdom, so I went and prayed instead.
Not that I don't love getting advice and encouragement from you! Because that is very important in itself. God places people in our lives who are there to help and encourage us. They can remind us of His truthes. But I know that I can tend to rely on only them, not even bothering to glance at God. That is when I need to just turn to Him and pour out my woes, so to speak.
So I did, and had a very encouraging time in prayer. Encouraging in the fact that God revealed an area that I neeed to pray over in my life, so I did. And I felt energized by my time spent in prayer.
I did get my Biblestudy ladies to pray for me today though, just because I wanted some extra support as well. I needed to have it reaffirmed to me that God is in control, not govermental employees.
The reason I was so upset yesterday was because we had Abby's first speech appointment.
It went HORRIBLE.
I can't even stress how bad it went. She was screaming and crying at the end of it. But personally I don't think it was all her fault. I think it was theirs (the speech pathologists, or whatever they are called). Well, actually at first I thought it might be her, a bit, but as I've taken a step back and thought about it, I see it a little differently.
They don't know her, or how she works or learns. They let her walk all over them, and expected her to do what they wanted. But she's speech delayed, not stupid. You don't need to be able to talk to figure out that you can get your way by whining. And that's what happened. They had a little fishing/magnet game that they let her play a little. Then they put it aside to try to get her to shape a sound. She just kept saying no, no, NO, and whining and such, so they let her have another fish!
Parenting rule #37 - Don't give into your child when they are whining to get their way
A kid will not respect you if they see that they can trample you. Don't be a wimp.
Anyways. I don't need to rant about that. So the end result of this is that they don't want to see her until September, and maybe she'll be ready by then. Riiight. Mayeb you'll be ready then. But as we were chatting a bit about it at the end, the speech pathologist managed to throw into my mind some remarks that made me doubt myself and everything I believe about my girls and parenting and homeschooling and life! Argh!
But she isn't God. God is God. (Yes, I know, what an obvious statement, haha. But I need to hear it!) And God is who I follow and listen to. So if He says that I need to do something, then yes I need to do it. But if the speech lady says I need to do something, I don't have to. I can if I decide it's best, but I am not obligated to follow her every whim.
So that's that!
Yesterday I was going to come on here and gripe about people and speech pathologists in particular and how they know nothing and just make your life miserable and what am I to do now and why can't life just be simple with easy-to-follow directions? But as I was getting ready to type I remembered that I have been trying to take my problems to God before I go to human wisdom, so I went and prayed instead.
Not that I don't love getting advice and encouragement from you! Because that is very important in itself. God places people in our lives who are there to help and encourage us. They can remind us of His truthes. But I know that I can tend to rely on only them, not even bothering to glance at God. That is when I need to just turn to Him and pour out my woes, so to speak.
So I did, and had a very encouraging time in prayer. Encouraging in the fact that God revealed an area that I neeed to pray over in my life, so I did. And I felt energized by my time spent in prayer.
I did get my Biblestudy ladies to pray for me today though, just because I wanted some extra support as well. I needed to have it reaffirmed to me that God is in control, not govermental employees.
The reason I was so upset yesterday was because we had Abby's first speech appointment.
It went HORRIBLE.
I can't even stress how bad it went. She was screaming and crying at the end of it. But personally I don't think it was all her fault. I think it was theirs (the speech pathologists, or whatever they are called). Well, actually at first I thought it might be her, a bit, but as I've taken a step back and thought about it, I see it a little differently.
They don't know her, or how she works or learns. They let her walk all over them, and expected her to do what they wanted. But she's speech delayed, not stupid. You don't need to be able to talk to figure out that you can get your way by whining. And that's what happened. They had a little fishing/magnet game that they let her play a little. Then they put it aside to try to get her to shape a sound. She just kept saying no, no, NO, and whining and such, so they let her have another fish!
Parenting rule #37 - Don't give into your child when they are whining to get their way
A kid will not respect you if they see that they can trample you. Don't be a wimp.
Anyways. I don't need to rant about that. So the end result of this is that they don't want to see her until September, and maybe she'll be ready by then. Riiight. Mayeb you'll be ready then. But as we were chatting a bit about it at the end, the speech pathologist managed to throw into my mind some remarks that made me doubt myself and everything I believe about my girls and parenting and homeschooling and life! Argh!
But she isn't God. God is God. (Yes, I know, what an obvious statement, haha. But I need to hear it!) And God is who I follow and listen to. So if He says that I need to do something, then yes I need to do it. But if the speech lady says I need to do something, I don't have to. I can if I decide it's best, but I am not obligated to follow her every whim.
So that's that!
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