The Elusive Year Supply
Now, where were we before all the drama?
Ahhh yes…
Those pesky goals:
New Year’s Goal #3
“I will buy at least one food storage or emergency item every week even if it’s just a can of beans.”
Yeah, yeah. Big plans. But too boring to keep my interest very long. Then I checked in my files and found an old handout from Relief Society–years back. If you have already seen it–good. If not, this should help. It’s titled, “One Year Food Storage on $5.00 Per Week.”
The idea is to use roughly 5-10 dollars of your grocery money toward a storage item (suggested here) and in 1 year, you’ll have a decent, basic supply for 2 people. I’ll post the whole handout as a printable PDF (see below) and then give the prompts here each Friday.
Oh, and since the grocery prices are always fluctuating–AND this is an old handout–be a bit forgiving if the items cost a dollar or two more here and there. You’ll still be working on a great project for about the same amount as lunch at Wendy’s.
So—let’s get started!
This week’s food storage prompt is: Two cans tuna, 2 lbs. salt
“The revelation to store food may be as
important to our temporal salvation today
as boarding the Ark was to the people
in the days of Noah.”
Ezra Taft Benson
One Year Food Storage on $5-10 Per Week Handout
Speaking of Noah—have you seen this? See below…
Modern Day Noah’s Ark
The massive central door in the side of Noah’s Ark was opened for the first crowd of curious townsfolk to behold the wonder.
Of course, it’s only a replica of the biblical Ark , built by Dutch Creationist Johan Huibers as a testament to his faith in the literal truth of the Bible. The ark is 150 cubits long, 30 cubits high and 20 cubits wide.
That’s two-thirds the length of a football field and as high as a three-story house. Life-size models of giraffes, elephants, lions, crocodiles, zebras, bison and other animals greet visitors as they arrive in the main hold. A contractor by trade, Huibers built the ark of cedar and pine.
Biblical scholars debate exactly what the wood used by Noah would have been. Huibers did the work mostly with his own hands, using modern tools and with occasional help from his son Roy.
Construction began in May 2005. On the uncovered top deck – not quite ready in time for the opening – will come a petting zoo, with baby lambs and chickens, and goats, and one camel. Visitors on the first day were stunned. ‘It’s past comprehension’, said Mary Louise Starosciak, who happened to be bicycling by with her husband while on vacation when they saw the ark looming over the local landscape. ‘I know the story of Noah, but I had no idea the boat would have been so big.’
There is enough space near the keel for a 50-seat film theater where kids can watch a video that tells the story of Noah and his ark.
Huibers, a Christian man, said he hopes the project will renew interest in Christianity in the Netherlands, where church going has fallen dramatically in the past 50 years.
Amazed…
…at how anything with buttons,
can feel like a video game.
…at how good it feels to sleep—in the daytime.
…at the quality of care you can get from a sweet, tender daughter.
…at how incredible a bowl of hot chicken noodle soup can taste.
…at how soft really, really nice sheets feel on your skin.
…at how many pills you can take at one time and still not spontaneously combust.
…at the similarities between my cute, protective son–and a great, big bull dog.
…at how good it feels to have the pieces of routine come drifting back.
…at the sweetness of friends.
Thank you everyone for your thoughts and prayers and kind wishes. You’ve made “getting things back to normal” feel so much better.
I love you guys…
Saving Baby Kisses
So, it’s been roughly two months and a week since New Year’s and the goals that I puttered around with, during the month of January. In the interest of personal accountability, I am forcing myself to evaluate my progress…or–in some cases–lack thereof. Necessary adjustments will be made accordingly. Kinda scary…
Never fear. I’ll look at the goals one at a time to save the sanity of all involved.
This could be painful, but being a sturdy mountain woman, I intend to forge ahead..
“Ahhh…be brave, little piglet.”
So I shall.
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New Year’s Goal #1 Gratitude.
“I will keep a gratitude journal and each day record at least one blessing, one joy or one example of ‘the Lord’s hand in my life.'”
How am I doing?
My very first goal has been more challenging than I expected. Not so much because I don’t recognize my blessings–I do–but more because I fall into bed each night, when I can no longer function with my eyes open. It makes it difficult to remember all the sweet baby kisses when you can’t remember how to hold a pen.
I did go to bed earlier last night and actually wrote down a few things, but, alas, it has not been anywhere near a daily thing, like I’d planned.
THEREFORE the adjustment I will make is to put the Gratitude Journal on the desk next to my bed. If my night memory doesn’t work–I’ll jot things down first thing in the morning. The point will be to leave it out where it’s easier to see. That should do it–because I truly enjoy this goal.
Gratitude makes the heart happy.