Financial fear

During the past few months, our family has had very little income, and we have been stretching the last of our savings. Last week, my husband has found employment again, with a good prospect of further work to come, and I am thankful beyond words for God's timely provision.

I thought it would be helpful to open the floor to discuss the fear that comes when we realise that that we are at the point of being no longer able to cover our financial commitments.

Have you ever been at this point? How do you cope with unemployment? Or with the fear that drags your heart down in spite of your best efforts to remain hopeful?

How to budget on a variable and irregular income: Part 2

Last week, I looked at creating a budget on a variable and irregular income. If you missed it, go here and catch up. I’ll wait! 

Now that we’re on the same page, let’s continue with more tips for managing a variable and irregular income:

 

What if it’s true….? Part 2: God delights in those who fear him (Ps 147:11)

What if God truly is not like me?
What if his thoughts will never be like mine?
What if the only way he can reveal himself to me is when I choose to humble myself before him?
What if I can only be fruitful and useful when I recognise I am a branch, not a Vine?

What if I was so conscious of God’s honour that I chose to please him, rather than myself, in every waking moment?

Do you fear God like this? How would your actions change if you did?

J.R.R. Tolkien: The Silmarillion

This book cannot be described simply.  It is the author’s life-work, and contains the millennia of history and mythology, verse and prose, tragedy and epic fantasy, which form the background to The Lord of the Rings cycle and The Hobbit. 

Anger in parenting

Last week, I touched on anger in parenting in my review of Turansky & Miller’s book “Good and Angry”. 

It made me think back to the year following my second child’s birth.  I did not cope very well with the normal parenting stresses during this phase – toilet training, developmental leaps, napping issues, tantrums, speech delay, and starting kindy (Australian preschool). In fact, I yelled daily at my children.

How to become a work from home mom: part 2

A while back, I posed this question, and it seems there’s a lot of you who would like to know the answer too.

Personally, I’m looking for inspiration. Others may need advice in areas such as marketing, financials, productivity, or balancing child-care and work at home.  So I thought it would be helpful to post a collection of links of articles this subject.  Please let us all know if this helps you on your journey to working from home!

(Warning: the language in some of these articles is colourful - for mature adults only).

Why I loved my slow-cooker

My slow-cooker just died yesterday. It developed a fatal electrical fault which tripped out the house power. This is the second slower cooker to die this way in less than 2 years, and I am a little annoyed.