Thankful

Photo of some of our harvest from last year, which I was also thankful for

I've been ejoying the "thankful" posts this past week from people on facebook.  One reason I really like facebook, is that it seems to compel people to look for the highlights of their day and point them out.  I also like those that post the non-highlights of their day as well, as it makes me feel more human and I can certainly relate to those posts too.

Anyway, reading the "thankful" posts has had me thinking of things I am thankful for as well.

One thing that I am thankful for this week is food.   After reading a friends facebook post awhile back about how she goes shopping once every two weeks for groceries, and picturing our scenario of going at least once and sometimes 2 or 3 times a week, I wanted to try it out.  We haven't been able to purchase 2 weeks worth of groceries at a time mostly because we're pretty much living paychecks to paychecks at this point in time, but I got a $125 bonus on my check last week from work, and decided that I was going to use it towards groceries.  And I did:)

We're on day 10 of not having to go to the grocery store (except for one quick trip where I had to run to our local grocery to ship out a pair of stilts from our etsy shop and decided to grab butter and shampoo while there too, and a walk to our corner Dutch store for some Gouda cheese).  It has been soooo nice.  The time (and money) saved has been immeasurable.  Not having to run to the store for a handful of items to get us through the next few days on our already time constrained schedules has been wonderful.  If money allows, I am going to try and keep to the bi-weekly shopping trips, and am thankful that we were able to last week, which has made the last 10 days easy sailing:)