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This post is re-run from June of 2008. I started to write a new blog and went back and discovered I had already written what I wanted to say! Yea, I took the evening off and still get to say what I wanted to. Thank you Jesus 🙂 So I feel your heart torn… why give up the convenience of your credit card for all of that paper money? It is just so easy to swipe and go. It is also almost impossible to buy something online without one, or to rent a car. Why stop using them? And it …

From my home to yours, have a wonderful New Year. I am excited to see what this new year holds and so grateful for what God did in 2008. I hope you enjoy the first day of the year today. Do something different. Celebrate your life and the people that you love. It is a good day to be alive and it is a good day to open your heart to God and all that He has for you in this year. Begin anew. Focus on the important rather than the urgent. God bless and have a happy and blessed …

Well, I can’t seem to get the blog written, but I am working on my book, so I think it’s just that I am doing what I am supposed to be doing. But I just have to share this video with you. Nothing to do with budgeting, but it also puts everything in perspective. Love and fear cannot co-exist. His love drives all fear from your heart. So if you are in fear in your finances… this is such a wonderful reminder of who your heavenly Father is and how much He loves you. What amazing love…

Hey friends, I just wanted to give you an update since it has been a week. The Jones family is doing great. We are enjoying the Christmas season immensely. It is so fun to hear the kid’s questions and to focus our conversations with them so much on Jesus. I know you should always do that and we do, but Christmas provides such a purposeful opportunity. And for me personally, I am working on my book again and that is why I haven’t been blogging. Honestly it is a little hard going. It is so much more fun to write …

Have I fallen off the planet? No, just very full days and evenings lately. I’m still here, and still budgeting (of course), I just have needed a little time to focus on other things. Matt and I have really been working to get our graphic design business off of the ground. We have called it jones house creative. Matt is still working part time for Liberated Living Ministries but we are actively trying to build our graphic design business. I think it has felt a little like trying to juggle two infants as I have struggled with giving my “free” …

It is a very significant time in America. I know tonight that whatever blog I write will be obsolete tomorrow. Tomorrow we will have voted for a new president and all of this nation and the world waits in anticipation tonight. So, as I wait with the world, I honestly feel no desire to blog on the kingdoms of men, but rather to blog on the Kingdom of God. We live in this world, but we are not of this world. We vote, we raise our voices, we fight for what is good… but in the end, we belong to …

Well, I am just checking in. This has been another busy week for my family. We have had something on every evening, which is definitely not my favorite. However, in the midst of all of the craziness I have had so many “budgeting” conversations! For instance, my friend Rachel commented about taking a “break” from budgeting because she has had three weeks of family in town. It is an interesting problem and one that we all face in the holiday season. She just had her company early, but it is such a great issue for all of us to address. …

What a beautiful fall weekend. It has been such lovely weather here in Tulsa and after several weeks of sickness and a very busy week last week, it was so lovely to just enjoy our weekend and to visit the pumkin patch. I am posting a lot of photos, so I hope you don’t mind as I share pictures of my darling kiddos. I know I haven’t posted in a few days, but I am just really finding that I need a break from blogging right now. We have had a lot going on in the evenings and as we …

My darling Ava Joy is 4 years old! I can hardly believe it. The party was a wonderful success, thanks in large part to my Mom who stepped in and saved the day. Praise the Lord, my fever was gone by Saturday, but I was still pretty weak. My Mom just brought the whole beautiful party together. Ava had such a lovely time and I was just so glad that she finally had a birthday party without tears. In fact, she totally enjoyed herself. So, I am still in recovery myself, but I did want to share pictures from the …

For those of you checking in here to check up on me, thank you so much for your thoughts and prayers. Unfortunately, I am still running a fever. It just hovers right above 100 degrees… not enough to really burn this off, just enough for me to ache all over. This morning I bundled my children up in their fleece winter clothes because I couldn’t stop shivering and didn’t realise that I still had a fever. I was so praying that I would wake up well today. My Mom came to pick up Ava and Luke so that I could …