Attitudes are Changing

For the last year our conversations have gone like this.

MrsLivingOurWay: Did you plant the _________ yet?

MrLivingOurWay: When do I have time?

Feel free to add a little attitude in there since we were both pretty grouchy with other changes in our lives, our telecommuting jobs, and homeschooling our kids.  The conversation could be reversed as well.

This weekend, I saw the attitude change.  Our tractor has been "broken" for months and for months it just sat.  This weekend, MrLivingOurWay went out there and did what had to be done to actually get the piece off the tractor that needs to be fixed.  Our garden hasn't had much in it for awhile. I had a baby to take care of so not much was done. This weekend, I put the baby on my back and began weeding the garden so that we can plant what little we can still plant.



Our Overgrown Garden before I started weeding it



Because of the uncertainty of our income in the future, we've been finding all the this time we thought we didn't have.  We are planning to slow down the drain on our savings account as MrLivingOurWay looks for work.  Our jobs are still there for the moment, so it's not like we don't still have everything going on and it's more important than ever to do a good job.

Lots of ideas are floating around which include everything from cost saving measures like dropping our insurance to products we might sell through the same channels in which we sell our eggs.  We also have a plan to increase egg production since our hens have all but stopped laying this winter.

I think that rather than being a bad experience, it might be the Lord's way of pushing us further on this path to self-sufficiency (or God sufficiency).