on our budget…..our stimulus check was in the bank this morning. I also had to pay bills. I”m working on our homeschool curriculum for this fall, that is where the bulk of the stimulus is going since I spent most of my tax refund getting into my house and the rest needs to be saved in case the husband takes his pension and goes to work full time at our church. It takes 12 weeks for us to get the pension money and then it is retroactive. So that means I need to have enough money in the bank to pay for our mortgage and car payment for 3 months. Although, we would save so much money on gas for the van, I would love to have him work at the church full time. I’m going to have to get serious about praying about it.

I’m debating on buying something and have to make a decision by tomorrow.  Bosch has their Bosch Universal Mixer and Nutrimill on sale until Mother’s Day. It is still pricey, worth the money. The reason I’m considering it is we have been eating horribly for well over 2 years now and I know that is affecting our health and my fibromyalgia. I am feeling convicted by the Lord to work on our eating habits and work on our food budget. I’m allergic to wheat and I could easily switch to spelt with the mill and the mixer. Not to mention, making all those other great things that require flour and a mixer : muffins, bagels, pancakes, pizza crust, along with bread and french toast. Oh and I did find a spelt pie crust recipe. I am just having a hard time spending that amount of money, when I know that there are other things we need or will need in the house. So on one hand is our health and food budget and the other miscellaneous things for the house. With our economy, I’m really leaning towards our health and food budget. The husband has been kind of silent on the whole subject, he understands how worried I am, although I think he is worried about giving up his unhealthy italian bread :) The bread we buy right now is full of stuff that I don’t really want us eating, and costs $2.59 a loaf, which on a heavy day of sandwiches is gone in one day, leaving nothing for the morning or even the husband to take sandwiches for lunch at night. I guess if I didn’t have to spend the rest of the money on school books this wouldn’t be such an issue. It is however………………….the husband did point out that except for our mortgage and car payment the only other bills we have are living expenses. Which is a great thing. Even our new appliances were paid for in cash. I will let you know what I decide to do in a day or so. I so hate making decisions……