Week of July 20-26th

Okay, so blogging isn't going so well for me... I would really like to change that, though. Every Sunday afternoon is mine to do as I please, and I would like to start making it more productive. I have been gone for so long that it is hard to know where to begin.

Last blog post, I mentioned God having to do a miracle... well, things are tight here... we are making two house payments, and that means there is not a lot of money for things. But I have watched God provide enough groceries for our family of five for two weeks with only $25... and when I mentioned a miracle, I needed God to provide paper to print schoolwork on. What is amazing, is that He kept pointing out paper around the house.... colored  paper that I had for scrapbooking, resume paper that we had bought for Prince Charming when he was applying for jobs. I did not run out of paper until Christmas, when my mom bought me some as a Christmas present. That paper lasted until the end of the school year!! God is SO GOOD!!! Sometimes, I forget the "little things" that he supplies, so I am happy to look back and remember these.

We are on our summer break.... actually, school is supposed to start on Monday so that we can have a holiday from Thanksgiving until New Years.... That may be delayed by one day, I am not sure. Since we finished school on May 31st, we have had company all but two weeks in our home. It has non-stop. That is okay, since we love each person who has come through our home.... just really looking forward to being "our family" again.

So, here is the list of what needs to be done this week:

1) Fold and put away Mount Washmore, and catch up the remaining laundry
2) Find the house that is buried
3) Organize coupons, plan for sales, buy school supplies and groceries
4) Do Week 1 of school
5) Make at least 4 Trim Healthy Mama recipes to get back on track
6) Use my "Brain" to keep up with things needing to be done
7) Practice the piano every day!!!

If I can get these accomplished this week, I will add extra projects back next week.

One more blessing, lest I forget. I mentioned that money is tight, but my boys earned the money last year to buy their own swimming pool, and our landlord told us to move it this year.... because of that, the pool was sitting at an awful angle, and we needed fill dirt to make it level so the boys could really enjoy it. As it happened, my husband earned a $50 gift card to Lowes by his hard work at his work, and God used that to be enough money to buy the dirt we needed... plus a net to clean out the large things from the pool, and a tarp to keep the entry to the pool clean. He is always the God of More than Enough!!!!

Counting my Blessings!!

Becky