I haven't written in quite a while...life has taken over!  hubby and i have been revising our budget....OY!  it was time to take our head out of the sand and really get down and dirty...tighten things up and be better aware of what was in the 'storehouse'.  let me just say, it has been a labor of love, but I have now taken over most of our finances for my hubby, and I feel blessed to be doing so!

it wasn't this way initially...nooooo! i just cringed at the thought of 'doing the finances'....the Lord revealed some things to me, i surrendered and i am so glad i did.  i use to feel that 'doing the finances' was a 'mans work'....but you know....that part in proverbs 31...where 'she considers a field and buys it, and from her profits she plants a vineyard'...well, i want a vineyard....or at least, the very least, i want God to be proud of his servant.  i want to be a proverbs 31 woman, and i am far from it, FAAAR from it!  but i am learning.

i hope to always be growing and learning!

tonight i am 'beading' myself into a frenzy...our family vacation is 2 weeks away and i hope to 'peddle my wares' in order to raise some spending money!  hubby, my boys, baby girl and i are driving up the coast to spend thanksgiving with my mom.  we haven't been able to have a thanksgiving with my mom in sooo long and i am so excited (we all are!) to be getting to spend this most treasured of all holidays with her!  she lives just about 20  minutes from San Francisco and it will be the boys first trip there! 

that last time i was in San fran i was only 12 and i threw up on a mans shoes in the trolley car.  that was the day we discovered i was not only claustrophobic, but had serious motion sickness.  all the same...i look forward to a 'smoked turkey'...and all the fix'ins.

isn't Thanksgiving the BEST!  i can't wait....

ps: 

i just have to share what i made for dinner tonight.  i had some left over 'honey orange sauce' (from the orange chicken i made the night before) i slow cooked pork using up the left over honey orange sauce, but for a change,  i added brown sugar and hickory bbq sauce to that, and for the sake of celebrating Autumn, (my favorite time of year) i added ground cloves and cinammon!  oh my gosh!  i served it with mash potatoes made with cream, better than buillion, butter, pepper, a sprinkling of garlic salt, and peas and carrots!  my family loved it and ate it all up!

(just had to share)  *wink*

GOD bless !

Posted by ejoyce,ink

I'm supposed to be balancing the checkbook and paying bills right now...and what am I doing??? blogging.I can find a hundred and one other things to do when it's time to do the finance stuff. I really dread it. Well then....I've been busted. You've convicted me! So now I really and truly am leaving HSB and going over to my banking site.Bye!