tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4679631342517586283.post1965719996703583147..comments2023-10-29T09:22:45.796-04:00Comments on Thora Florence: It's the End of the World as We Know ItThorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04564924243186464304noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4679631342517586283.post-33482081874253775222008-06-09T01:23:00.000-04:002008-06-09T01:23:00.000-04:00You know, it was exactly people "getting rid of" f...You know, it was exactly people "getting rid of" food storage for moves that kept my family fed growing up. I don't think my parents ever bought wheat, but we always had pleanty for my mom to grind and make 8 loaves of bread every week of my life. <BR/>We are slowly building our food storage here, but I don't think because we have been remiss in the past, just finally in a situation where it is possible. And we were just greaty blessed by my brother moving out of the state this last month. Much as I will miss him and his family, he passed on an entire car load of food to our household that they just didn't want to transport. <BR/>Someone described to me once (maybe it was even you) the two philosipies of earthly posession--including food, I would argue--the open hand and the closed hand. When you leave your hand open, things simply come into it when you need them (especially when you are relying on the Lord), but things also go when you don't need them (or are moving). When you grab things that you want and hold on tightly, they won't leave you, but your hand won't be ready to recieve the blessings that were going to follow.<BR/>When we moved from Provo to the Northwest, we gave away almost all of our furniture and things. We originally intended to sell some of it, but as we heard of people that needed or wanted things, they just went. But somehow after moving up here, we have aquired a magnificent collection of funiture to outfit our home, almost entirely from the generosity of others. I don't think we've spent more than a couple hundred dollars to fill our bedroom, a baby's room, living room, office, kitchen (including major appliances). The Lord blesses. Oh, he will bless you.Carolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12798756205391129473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4679631342517586283.post-34623867549459650602008-06-05T23:53:00.000-04:002008-06-05T23:53:00.000-04:00Thora, I don't know if I ever told you, but we had...Thora, I don't know if I ever told you, but we had a small miracle happen on our end too. After sending you that money, Todd got a Christmas gift from his boss. In a meeting he handed everyone on Todd's team an envelope, and said that they usually buy each member on the team a Christmas Ham, or give a gift card to a grocery store, or something like that. Todd opened the envelope, and inside was cash, in the exact sum that we sent you. <BR/><BR/>We were blessed by being able to bless you guys, and we were happy to do it, and glad that we were able to help you guys so much. <BR/><BR/>Our food storage is not what it should be right now either, but I'm on the list of people wanting to rectify the situation. My excuse for not working on it now is that we are moving, and I don't want to have to move boxes of heavy food. But I have space planned in the new house for food storage. <BR/><BR/>We saw a year, the year before we adopted Oliver, I think, where we didn't know how we were going to eat and still pay all our bills, and some how, it is beyond me, we had enough. No extra, but we always made it.Ameliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05975156589409543136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4679631342517586283.post-78154432961373312882008-06-05T22:59:00.000-04:002008-06-05T22:59:00.000-04:00I hear ya. Every time I go to the grocery store I...I hear ya. Every time I go to the grocery store I buy extra food, but it just doesn't seem to be enough. And it's hard to be a ton of extra for food storage, due to the tight budget issues.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for posting on my blog, btw. <BR/><BR/>It's good to hear from you. I'm so jealous that you're living in England. What an adventure!Rachelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10371163714955983800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4679631342517586283.post-20401604365851413242008-06-05T22:05:00.000-04:002008-06-05T22:05:00.000-04:00Things are tight here in the states as well. We ap...Things are tight here in the states as well. We appreciate having what food storage we have.(Thank you Thora for some of the things) We learn to live though. We're lucky Moab has a free health clinic and we get all our furniture and clothing needs via a very supportive mother in law who lives to go to DI. God watches out for his children but just enough sometimes to keep us humble. <BR/>We are lucky to have a car and a house and good jobs. Sure it may be hot in Moab but that keeps our heating needs down we rarely run our AC. We've trimmed the fat on a lot of our expenses though we could do better and are trying to. You are right though things are tight for the young family. However as my mission president said, "These trying times will bring you closer together and can make you stronger than you could ever know." <BR/><BR/>We send our love from Moab <BR/>The SchencksTravis & Heatherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14061987559208624961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4679631342517586283.post-20873211983900912852008-06-05T11:34:00.000-04:002008-06-05T11:34:00.000-04:00wow lydia drank the powdered milk! I dont think m...wow lydia drank the powdered milk! I dont think my kids would. But thankfully I have WIC and so i dont pay for their milk so I can still afford to have them drink all they want.<BR/><BR/>What a lot of blessing you have had to make this year work for you! Its amazing how the lord blesses us. Soren asked once when we were going to have our third child ( this was when theo was about 6 months i think) and I told him i didnt know, and all the reasons we were unsure what to do ( my health, money, etc) he told me that if it was just money then we should get pregnant and let heavenly father worry about the money. The reason i say money is becuase you cant fit three kids in carseats in my car.. not that the other baby expenses are that much we couldnt cover them since i breastfeed and diapers we could work into the budget. But a car payment was just so large and no matter how i looked at our budget we couldnt fit it in. Fast forward three months and I was pregnnat. Still no idea how to pay for it... but just thought I would wait and see if the baby even made it past the first trimester before i got all worked up and worried about what to do. Then here i am due in 8 weeks and cory just got a raise at work.. a big one for a new tech position. He is making 4,000 more a year. Plenty enough for a van payment and the extra insurrance and gas etc. Isnt it amazing how when you pay your tithing and have faith that the lord always provides? I swear the money just falls from the sky sometimes. Its always the amount we needed too.<BR/><BR/>Oh and you can count me in the people that are starting to get all their food storage backed up... we used to have so much more but we ate it! lol. Not because we couldnt buy the food really, but becuase I have been so tired this pregnancy that I dont want to go shopping! So we ate alot of the canned goods up!Camillahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16222505107451912209noreply@blogger.com