I don't know if any of you read Rebecca Newman's "Reanaissance" blog. I've been reading since way back when she had just two littles to tend to. She has six now. She is hosting a Community Baby Shower for a Crisis Pregnancy Center in Pennsylvania and is collecting items to donate. Now this is something very close to my own heart. John and I used to donate routinely to a Crisis Pregnancy Center in a nearby town and it was lovely to buy diapers, baby wipes, cute outfits off clearance racks, etc. to donate. Often enough one of the women in the church would ask for extra donations on their birthday.
I knew I couldn't donate this month due to other obligations we had, but next month I mean to send items to her. Would any of you like to join in? She has links on this post and you can read more about the details there as well. I don't think there's a better time in this old world of ours to reach out and love someone else, someone we may never know or meet but we can make an impact upon a life or lives all the same. Perhaps a mother will share her story of being blessed with her child as he/she grows. Perhaps she will be moved to be an impact on another's life herself and teach her children to be givers as well...I just think we can be powerful when we feel we are weakest. Join in with Rebecca, won't you?
I really enjoy the blog Good Cheap Eats. If there are those of you who haven't got a two week supply of food on hand, she has a post that addresses that. Another vlogger, She's In Her Apron also has a basic two week stock up for a family. Now mind you all, I started this post before the shelves emptied out but it's still good to have a guide in place for when you can get items.
This is one area we have no concerns about. I've always had a pantry of sorts but in recent years I have slowly deepened it. It's not perfect but I know we can manage fine on what we have on hand. I can still hear Katie saying to me, as she put groceries away one day after school, "It must give you a sense of comfort to have this much food on hand..." I shared with her then that I considered it an emergency fund of sorts. What's funny is back then what we were able to keep on hand was much less than what we have now. I just didn't have the ability to do deeper storage in our small home when the family all lived here!
Patsy shared this post on her blog. I had been thinking along those lines myself. I wrote this post as my share for the week.
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2 comments:
A good friend of ours is the head of our local crisis pregnancy center. They are close to our age and never were able to have children of their own so they pour their lives into the unborn.
Terri, it’s lovely of you to help bring awareness to pregnancy help center. I believe this centers help some women make the decision for life as it may seem overwhelming to get ready for a baby, especially if you do not have supportive family.
I peaked at Good Cheap Eats and will go back and write notes for pantry meals. I do have to do an inventory and then sit down and make meals from what we have. I am too used to going out and filling in our meals with fresh produce and such from the store. I love the information about what you can freeze. I need to shred some cheese and put it in the freezer, something i have never done. I have frozen some milk, but do wish I had back up milk powder, but my co-op was already out when it came time to fill the truck for the upper midwest route.
My dear husband has said the depression word and I don’t think he is wrong to say it. He is usually an optimist too so I am taking every precaution to be prudent. My husband bought a duplex (others may call it a twinplex?) in Green Bay years ago before we were married, which we still rent out today. We already were contacted by one of the renters that they are worried about making their rent in the coming months. Thankfully, this is a retirement builder for us so we won’t notice too much if someone can’t pay their rent and we will consider it part of helping others out. Both our renters have always paid on time so we would never consider evicting someone under these circumstances. I remember when I was a young single mother with our oldest (my husband adopted him) and I knew that if I was sick and missed 4 weeks of pay that I would be evicted and that worried me greatly as I didn’t have a really supportive family to fall back on. One of my sons noted how greedy his landlord seemed and how hard it was to get any repairs done at this rental, and how the rent went up every year. We never raise our rent after someone has rented and if they pay on time. I always hated those yearly rental increases the few years I was a single mom.
Well, off to get a bit of rest as I am fighting a mild virus that one of my sons generously gave me. They are making me soup for dinner too! I hope you have a peaceful, lovely day in your home Terri!
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