Future Plans...What Do You Think?

 

I was standing at the counter prepping the vegetables for supper the other night and I let my thoughts take flight.  I'll vouch that in the space of the hour I worked on those vegetables and seasonings, that I thought dozens of things followed by, "I ought to share that...".   I started jotting down those ideas as they came.

Then I ruminated a bit over the fact that right now prices and costs and how to manage are forefront of everyone's minds.    I want to share all things.  I want to share the season I'm in, and the environment I live in and the atmosphere about me.  I want to share what I've come to understand about our roles in life.  I want to share the things that never change, despite the world outside our doors. We are the peacemakers, the home keepers, the cheerleaders, the shining lights.    I want to be an encouragement to you who work hard every day being all those things to all those you love.  

And I want to share all those little saving ways I learned by largely trial and error and a little later still gleaned from the reading of hundreds of emails, books, newsletters, blogs and now vlogs.  I often feel I get out of balance with my little blog.  I too often lean to heavily on what I've done in one area and not at all in another.

I don't want to just dwell on the money saving side of things but...Oh this is a big but at the moment!...But, I definitely feel that right now is a time to instruct and teach and share with others so that they too might be prepared or at least knowledgeable about how to save, how to stretch, how to make do with integrity and loveliness in difficult financial times.   And frankly, while I share my weekly diary and my weekly plans for what I hope to get done, I don't think I share nearly ENOUGH of the how, why, when and what then sorts of things.  I don't share enough about what knowledge I've found on my own.

So here's what I'm thinking of doing.  I've said I want to write more often and I do.  I'm going to try to share every Wednesday about whatever is on my mind that week.  It might be about the price of gasoline and it might be about the color of the sky on Monday.  It will be whatever random wandering thought I dwelt on most strongly that week.  

And I'm going to try and write another post weekly about some aspect of saving on food or some sort of savings made in the home.  I might take a subject and turn it into a mini-series.  It might be something so basic that you seasoned savers look and say, "Now why on earth do I want to read that?"  You might not!  But perhaps someone who needs that very information will stumble on it in a search online and be blessed with needed information.  Maybe at some point a daughter or daughter in law will sit down and read and think, "I'm so glad Mama shared that!  I always wondered why she did (----insert whatever skill or method---).

Sometimes I may not manage the two extra post.  Some weeks I might be very brief and some weeks I might run overlong.   But I did want to let you know what you might expect now that I'm in a season where I could possibly write a little more.