Week 3 - savings well spent
Another week into October, and another week of being frugal....sort of. After 2 weeks in a row of spending less then $50 on food for a family of 6, we are bound to eventually spend more. For week 3, I actually spent all but $20 of our normal weekly budget, however, that included $40 worth of new jars! We were given about 120 lbs (my estimate by comparing the boxes to Titus) of free apples, and I only had a few empty jars left, so I had to buy more. Even though that isn't technically food, it comes out of the food budget. If you look at just food, we spent $60 this week + jars = $100. On just food (not diapers or jars or canning supplies) we have spent $120 in the last 3 weeks. If I include the diapers and canning supplies, we are still $150 below budget for this point in the month! Yay! So I went shopping!
I have never been very good at holding onto money when I have extra available to me. Since we had extra, we agreed to buy Raquelle her first real Bible instead of waiting for Christmas and suggesting it to someone else. We were going to wait, but since Sparks started, she has brought me her little Gideon New Testament 3 times in the last week asking me to help her find something that was in the Old Testament. She also has been spending an hour or 2 every day either on the couch or in her room just reading her little New Testament Bible.
With the help of the Christian book store staff, I chose the Adventure study Bible in the NIrV version. NIrV is the NIV with some of the larger, hard to understand words re-done for kids. It is recommended for ages 6-9. I debated getting her this, or getting an NIV and just expecting her to grow in it. Now, 2 days later, I am sure we made the right choice! Raquelle loves the foot notes and has been spending a couple hours every day sitting and reading her new Bible! Today, she was asking me if a devil can really be in someone...for example, a person who was possessed and Jesus cast out the demon. Last night at dinner, she told me that Enoch didn't die. God just took him to heaven instead. It's so exciting to see my little 5 yr old have such a hunger for Gods word! I can't wait to see all of the things that God will do in her life as she grows up!
I have never been very good at holding onto money when I have extra available to me. Since we had extra, we agreed to buy Raquelle her first real Bible instead of waiting for Christmas and suggesting it to someone else. We were going to wait, but since Sparks started, she has brought me her little Gideon New Testament 3 times in the last week asking me to help her find something that was in the Old Testament. She also has been spending an hour or 2 every day either on the couch or in her room just reading her little New Testament Bible.
With the help of the Christian book store staff, I chose the Adventure study Bible in the NIrV version. NIrV is the NIV with some of the larger, hard to understand words re-done for kids. It is recommended for ages 6-9. I debated getting her this, or getting an NIV and just expecting her to grow in it. Now, 2 days later, I am sure we made the right choice! Raquelle loves the foot notes and has been spending a couple hours every day sitting and reading her new Bible! Today, she was asking me if a devil can really be in someone...for example, a person who was possessed and Jesus cast out the demon. Last night at dinner, she told me that Enoch didn't die. God just took him to heaven instead. It's so exciting to see my little 5 yr old have such a hunger for Gods word! I can't wait to see all of the things that God will do in her life as she grows up!
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