Just Rambling

**khjmom** · 10-25-2008, 09:51 AM

Sigh...it has been a week and I need just a moment to release so to speak. I have been struggling this week with the wants...you know....the I want this...why don't I have that? I hope I am not the only one that does that. Then I was greeted with the news from one of my students on Thursday, that he doesn't have a house anymore because his dad can't afford the one they had. Nothing like that news to put me in my place. I may not like this house, but it is a roof over my head. We can afford it. Thankfully, family members took them in, and everything is as ok as it can be right now for this child. I haven't physically felt good, but then I get news that our drum major that had gotten hurt a couple of weeks ago, (fell at practice and then showed up the next day to support the band straight from surgery) now has to have her wrists set again with pins and plates. Our other drum major has cancer. I realize that I don't have room to complain....time to straighten out and get my mind right. It's like these little God Breezes keep floating my way to help me realize just how good I do have it. I think it's time for an attitude adjustment...don't you think? Anyone else have days like these?

**Sassyclass** · 10-25-2008, 10:12 AM

Yes I do. Not very often but when I do those little God breezes, I love that BTW, blow my way too. I/we want so badly to have our own property and our dream home built on it. I complain about no room, ugly brown paniling, too many windows and not enough insulation..blah blah blah, and then I go to work and see they have posted another lay off. I still have my job, and DBF has his and we make enough to pay our bills and put some in the bank, eat out if we so choose, go to a movie, or whatever. I have been reapeating these words a lot lately to DBF." We just have to take things one day at a time and be glad we are still working.As long as we keep our bills paid and food on the table we will be alright. Any extra we have will have to go on paying off as much as we can."
I have told him we need to start living as though I am laid off. I think we take what God provides for us for granted until our backs are against the wall and then we expect him to pull us back up, brush us off and set us back on the road to riches. If we stop and really look at what he gives us on a daily basis, we see how rich we already are.

Cat

**Jskell911** · 10-25-2008, 10:56 AM

Yes, I do have these days, weeks, .... But, like yourself I am reminded of all I DO have and it makes all the difference.

**frugalbabe** · 10-25-2008, 11:13 AM

Such a timely post! I went to a friend's home the other night as she just moved into a new one and was anxious for us all to see it. It is my exact dream home - nothing flashy or in your face but exactly the lay-out and features I want in a home. I drove home feeling a little bummed and over critical of my little 70's ranch home. We have been dreaming and conspiring of getting our own land and building new but we need to get finances straight first so it will be a while. But when I walked into my quiet home and heard the sleeping noises of all those I hold most dear. I realized how blessed I am. I have a family who puts up with me even loves me, married to my best friend and the best man I have ever known, and I am lucky enough to have a home I can afford and call my own - and a lot of memories have been formed in these walls. Such first world problems to be jealous of others -- we are so blessed.

**frugal is fun** · 10-28-2008, 09:49 AM

I just had one of the moments yesterday afternoon. The neighbors kids were over playing with my son and I asked the little girl (shame on me for not remembering her name) what she was going to be for Halloween. She said she wasn't sure. I said, with a light hearted tone, you don't know, Halloween is Friday. She said she had her old costumes but her mom didn't have any money and the check wasn't coming until Monday and Halloween was Friday.

I can't tell you how badly I wanted to just put her in my car and drive her to the store to get her a costume.

So I know times are tough for me, but thankfully, they are not that tough.

**cab54** · 10-28-2008, 10:16 AM

I love that term---"God Breezes". I'll have to remember that. God and I have been having our troubles the last couple of years, and I need to remember the little things He shows me. Thanks.

**Wendy Mack** · 10-28-2008, 10:31 AM

You know this post is timely .. I was just posting how I was frustrated with how slow my debt was going away and how my husband's job was slowing down and not as much money coming in ughhh ......but like they said in the posts... its still going down and can I imagine what it would have been like if i had ALL the debt I had before looming over my head!!! That kicked me out of my funk right now!!! And honestly I know people around me who are hiding from collection agents... and living off what fema gave them to rebuild after the floods here in Iowa. Instead of redoing their homes, its sooo sad.

I love the term God Breezes, I got one of them when the floods were just starting... I was so upset cause one of the huge rains had filled my basement with 7 inches of water and had killed my furnance and my hot water heater .. and i was devestated trying to figure out where the 6 grand was going to come from to get a new one and fix the old hot water heater.... then a few weeks later .. Oakville, Iowa is completely under water and people lost everything... home... belongings pets.. their lively hood. It sooo put me to shame for being upset about just my basement!!! I still had my family ... my home... a job... food on the table ... my pets... .. during the flood a man drowned trying to get back to his home to get his dog... him and the dog died... and the man had a wife and 2 children... Poor Oakville is still rebuilding .. some are still trying to deside if they are going to rebuild or just move away and try somewhere else. It really puts your life in perspective.

**ktsmama** · 10-28-2008, 10:43 AM

Thanks so much for posting this. I thought maybe I was the only one feeling this way lately! I, too, have felt this way the last few weeks and have gotten a couple of those little "God Breezes".

You are certainly not alone, we are here to support you and each other. Thanks for showing us that we are not alone.