Loving a Life of Biblical Womanhood
As I’ve said in My Schedule (see the tabs above) long ago I had a full-time job with professional and personal commitments that kept me extremely busy. However, eating out all of the time was no a fiscal option, and fast food was not a healthy option, so I made sure that I cooked dinner every night. The only way to be able to do that with the lifestyle we lived and to eat before 9 o’clock every night was to have a menu plan.
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This is a picture Gregg took a couple of months ago from a hotel patio in Kuwait. A week ago, he received instructions to attend a week-long class there again. He said to me, “It would be cool if you could come.”
One of the first things I did was create a budget. I created a Microsoft Excel Worksheet and listed anything on which I would likely spend money: food, sundries, dining out, gasoline, etc. Once I did that, I figured what I might spend in a month’s time and set a budget. Once I had the monthly budget, I multiplied each number by 12 and came up with the annual budget. So, I created a worksheet within this spreadsheet that had the annual budget numbers. I work with an annual number, because, for instance, my birthday gift budget is $50 per month. However, there are months that I don’t spend $50, and there are months that I do spend $150 — but what I want to look at is the annual expenditures and budgets.
Penny Franklin, a fellow Seeds of Faith team member and blogger, lost her husband, John, in a tragic accident yesterday, December 30th. Penny and her husband were a pastoral team in a church in Louisiana, and have two small children, Jordan and JP.
I found this video on Courtney’s blog while blog hopping. I found it fascinating, and Rachel Ray’s reaction to it rather interesting. There isn’t a thing Courtney said with which I disagree. She kind of summed up a good portion of my philosophy on homemaking/wifely-ness in a short little clip.
Welcome to the annual Christmas tour of our home! You will see that compared to last year, a lot of things have remained the same, but there are some new decorations, and some decorations have been removed.
I saw these at a craft show. The woman had a huge display all lit up and they were so beautiful. Looking closer at them, I realized how easy they would be to make.
For less than half of what I would have paid for a wreath already put together, I spent less than 10 minutes making my own:
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