It's been a tough couple of weeks. We came home from vacation with sickness tagging along for the ride. Hosanna started throwing up all over herself and screaming hysterically. Brian focused on just getting us home while i held her little sand bucket in front of her, stroked her hair, and sang to her. The wind blew through the windows and the girls ate right out of a cereal box beneath the chaos and stuff. The following week was laundry, more sickness, and more laundry. I am so thankful for the cooler weather so that the girls could lie on their towels in the grass and eat saltines and drink ginger ale as they recovered. Brian worked out in the yard on a hen house for Sophia and Gwen the Hen. He would like to make and sell them for some extra cash, something we have been short on lately. A series of events have put us a little behind this month and it has really made me/us think about our future. The idea of selling our beautiful home and moving way out to our land has become really attractive to me for the first time. I love our home here and cannot imagine ever leaving, but at the same time the idea of having a much smaller mortgage is beautiful to me. We have been tightening up our purse strings around here. I have never been so thankful for Aldi! Eating vegetarian has never been a desire of mine or Brian's but it has been a necessity lately. God has blessed us with some delicious meal ideas without meat. My favorite has been a beautiful, colorful Cuban salad. I call it Cuban for no reason except it has black beans in it. So basically we are enjoying the contentment that stems from being thankful for the bare necessities. When you have been stripped from the opportunity to be wasteful but are able to survive and be thankful for the basics it brings a special kind if joy. We are thankful to be healthy and have food on the table.
