pressing on...

Well, we went to Aldi on Monday and spent $69 on food. That puts us about $47 over budget for the month. My goal was $1 per person per day, and we will have come out at about $1.39 per person per day. Some of the food will be left over, so we will just try it again next month. It looks like evaluating our food budget will be more of a process than an event.

My family and I are out of town for the weekend, so its not a good time to implement a new routine, but I think that i will begin a new morning ritual of reading in the Bible for 10 minutes and catching an audio chapter during the kids' afternoon nap. If you have never listened to a reading of the bible, I highly recommend it. I think that the original text was intended to be read out loud, since only a few would have been able to read it. The cadence, style, and even the repetitions seem to make more sense when I hear them spoken. Try it, you can find audio books of the Bible at the library usually. If not, you can download them for free here.