I started this blog in 2011. I wanted this to be about one of my most favorite things in life and that is MY HOUSE.
We were still adjusting to a 45% cut in pay after leaving the Silicon Valley. My husband was on unemployment part-time and could only get part-time work. I was out of work as well. Not much work for a Nanny. All I could find were babysitter jobs that paid incredibly low rates and all they wanted me to do was, "babysit." It wasn't that those wages were beneath me - but I used to make more than my husband, being a Nanny. Plus I had health coverage and many perks. I was being offered about $100 a week for 3 kids! We felt that it wasn't worth it and I might as well stay home and run my own household.
We still had my husband's military pension and his service-related disability. During this time, my youngest son got out of the Navy and came to live with us and Foodie came up as well.
I had a full house!
Back when I was 10 years younger.
The year my husband started working at the Cal Vet Home, we had to go the full month of January without a paycheck - to be paid in February.
That's hard to do at first!
So I created a 31-day Challenge to eat what was in my pantry and wrote about it on here.
So that is how this blog came to be -
Have you ever gone back and re-read your blog from the beginning? It's enjoyable and embarrassing at the same time.
You can read My 31-day Challenge here.
I've not gone back and read mine at Blogger from the beginning. I'm sure I would be amazed that anyone would follow my scribbling's. *grin*
ReplyDeleteWe've done the No Paycheck Shuffle for awhile too but I was much, much younger. I was so much more resilient in my salad days. That would be a bit hairy to do that now. It makes me so nervous to be without funds now, so, we keep wads of extra cash in the big fireproof safe "just in case". There's lots of other "insurance" in there too. *wink* I've been there, done that. When I say my prayers I try to daily thank the good Lord God for all our blessings. I know what it's like to do without. Also, I try to be generous. No one, especially children, should be hungry.
This made me wonder about my first post
ReplyDeleteThat's a cool photo of you. We started our blog around the same time as you did.
ReplyDeleteYes, I've gone back and read a few posts from back then, and a lot has changed
since then.
~Sheri