You Know You're Broke When...

• friends give you gift cards to Goodwill (for which you are very grateful!)


• you hope there's enough lawnmower gas to put in the tank of your minivan just get you from home to the car fix-it place and back
• you begin to view quarters as GAS MONEY


• you save the un-used milk that the kids discard when they've finished their cereal by straining the cereal particles out and putting it back into the refrigerator for their next bowl of cereal (not in the milk jug.... it gets it own jar)


• the six green beans you picked out of your (woefully neglected) garden (due to the hot hot tennessee summers and high degree of stess in your life) make up your veggie portion for dinner (not that the kids are complaining)


• you begin to feed the pets every other day (JUST KIDDING......... the kids don't let me get away with that)


• you consider rationing the toilet paper usage

The Month in Review

so far in the past 30 days......

• son runs into another child and ends up with her tooth in his eye socket, emergency surgery, stitches


• company downsized, husband's job eliminated


• same son discovered to have stomach ulcers........ excessive worrier at age 9? or could it be MOTRIN?!


• Received first offer in two and a half years on house for sale in the state from which we moved in order to improve our lives with job promotion and better pay..... only to be stripped of both and now have two houses...... house payments I should say.......


• today bank says, "no thank you... offer too low..."


• people are beginning to be afraid to come around..... they don't like black clouds.......


• we, however, are excited at the opportunity to rely completely and totally on God


• wondering why everyone isn't envious of such trust training

I Did it!!

I am finally a blogger!
woohoo!!

Here we go!
Can we do it?
Yes we can!

Okay, this girl is really, REALLY technologically not savvy..... (meaning me)
not because she hasn't the brains, but because until now, she's
been lacking in the devoted department.

Consider me devoted now.
And welcome to the little glimpses of my perspective on life, family and the never-ending pursuit of............... what it is that we pursue.......
happiness? peace? fulfillment? success? money?

RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD.

oohh.
why is it that it requires a bit of pain to come to pursue that final pursuit.........

okay.
I have a lot of catching up to do!!!!!
so, here goes my attempt.
please comment frequently......
if technology allows.....
Does it?

i think so!
Rachel has a place for comments on her blogspot!
Rachel Loy, you are my example in the blogging world.
sorry.
but,
thanks!!