• Jul. 25, 2009
I'm back, I think!
If anyone remembers me, a lot has changed since my last post. We're still homeschooling, but now there are more of us. Yes, I had a baby! On May 12th of this year! A little boy. Big brother, who is 10, is way excited.
We were trying for about a year before I got pregnant. I was having some health issues a last year and I also think I had an early miscarriage. It made it really hard for me to write at that moment, as I'm sure some of you can understand. And then I had really bad morning, er, all day sickness for the first trimester. And then life just got so busy that I abandoned the blog altogether.
Well things sure have changed in the world as well as in my own, with the so-called recession and all. Is it just me, or is everyone concerned about frugality now. Well you all know I was frugal when frugal wasn't cool, to paraphrase an old country song! :)
I hope to be back and share my frugal adventures again. Even though I try to be a good steward of my family's finances, the rapid rise of grocery and gas prices left me reeling as well. Not to mention a cutback of DH's hours at work last winter and part of the spring. But he is still working, and full time again, thank the Lord! God is so good to us!
Right now we are on a formal school break. The timing of the baby's birth worked out perfectly, being born during a school break. I was done with schooling about 3 weeks before he was born. Of course, he was nine days overdue, but I was still ready for him! Any thoughts of school have more or less gone out the window, what with the newborn and all. Plus I went to church camp this summer for a few days. I was representing my church as a conference delegate during the business meetings during camp.
And then I felt led by the Lord to do our church's VBS a couple weeks ago. What an adventure that was! I had never done that before. Definitely done on a frugal budget but a wonderful time was had by all, and the children received a lot of spiritual help as well.
The public school starts back up again in about 3 weeks. I usually try to start up with them. I might wait til September. Actually I am not sure what I'll be doing. I am contemplating a different schedule than the traditional one, one with more breaks spread throughout the year. Last year I started in July, hoping to have a longer Christmas break and tada! I got pregnant, so no Christmas break for us! But we did get finished before the baby was born.
I'll try to check back in again soon. God bless and stay frugal! :)
