A quiet day?

Today I'm thinking it will be rather quiet. This morning started off busy as I got the kids dressed and fed. We had an air conditioner guy scheduled to come and look at the outside unit at 8:30. He arrived right on time. I don't know if they figured out why it doesn't work, but it might be a simple fix. We haven't used it since we moved here, but Scott decided to have it checked out this year. It was scrambled eggs and toast this morning and there was nary a crumb to be found when they finished:).

So, why the quiet day, you might ask. Well, Elyssia has been invited to go over to a lady's house to sew for the day. She's super excited and it will be interesting to see what she makes. Scott was already planning to take Garrison with him to work today, so I'm left with two little ones. Two little ones that still take a nap and seem to play quite well together when the older ones are away:). We shall see what the day holds, but I'm thinking it should be a good day.

It also looks like God may have answered another one of our prayers. We've been praying for someone to come and help Scott with ministry things. A while back we got a call from a young man who is coming to work in the oil fields and needed a place to stay while he looked for an apartment. He's saving up to go to Bible college in a year and is moving here from Ontario to earn the money. So, it looks like he will be staying with us for awhile. He will have odd hours sometimes, but this is encouraging news and we're praying that God will use him while he's here. He's scheduled to arrive in August, so we'll have time to enjoy the tent meeting and a couple weeks before we have to get things ready for his arrival.

Another friend mentioned how quickly the summer is going by. In reply to her answer:) I don't think that time goes slowly anymore once you're a mother of more than one child:). It's a good life though. I sometimes think back to the time before we had Elyssia. Yes, we had fun, but the house was clean by 9am and there wasn't anyone to mess it up. There was more free time, but no one to really spend it with while Scott was at work. So, I'd rather keep this fun, crazy, busy life with 4, then be back at the beginning watching the clock, hoping that time would hurry up so that Scott would be home from work.

I have a question for those who read this blog. I'm wondering what people with 4 or more people in their family spend on groceries each month. Those with 6 people like us and those with 6 people and the kids are teenagers. I've heard some really crazy amounts lately and I was trying to see if that's really the average or if there is a lot of overspending. Our budget includes diapers, wipes, cleaning products and paper products. We have $40 a month for eating out that is one top of the $400. When it was just two of us we budgeted about $200. Adding $50 extra as each child came along doesn't seem too unreasonable for me. I figure that we spend an extra $100 when we have company frequently, but not always. Just trying to find out if our amount is normal, below average, or even considered too much by some for a family our size. I haven't been making all our bread yet, which I figure might save us a bit, but since I buy a lot of ours in the 50% off bin, I think it wouldn't be that much of a savings. I rarely buy store bought cookies and try to avoid most of the kids snack items. It's cheaper to bake things for them and they seem to fill up faster. I think that we could probably save $100 a month if we lived in the States and did coupon redemption. Sadly, they don't offer many up here. The Lord has provided through the Extra Foods Family Savings Days though and we save $15 off each $100 that we spend. We're very thankful for that. It means free diapers:). So, just curious...

Well, the younger two are finished with their snack, so I think it's play time. It's quiet like I thought it would be and believe it or not the younger two aren't getting into trouble:). Always a possibility though. They've got the whole day ahead of them...