Go God!

Last Wednesday night I had the opportunity to introduce a 14 year old girl to Jesus and help her discover she can have eternal life through Him! The week before Brandon got to lead another student to Christ! We're so blessed to be serving where God has placed is here in the heart of central Texas! Each of these students got saved because at school they're friends began witnessing to them. Our students get it! They understand that school is their mission field right now! We can see the students passion and desire to grow and witness but for visitor students to stand in front of big church and proclaim to the adults what happened to them is incredible! It helps our church family catch the vision and encourages them that the students are actually "getting it" they're not just showing up to church for fun and food! So excited to see more growth!

Money, Money, Money

So on TLC there's a show about extreme cheapskates. Some of them are pretty odd! But on the other hand some of them make good sense. By influence of the show I think we will start having a "no spend paycheck" once every 6 weeks or so. We will pay tithe then not spend another dime that entire week. Simply eat what food we already have in the house, whether that's pancakes for dinner or odds and ends. Just think of the money we could put towards our car payment. Other ideas on the show we will NOT be implementing are eating goat heads, eating out of a dumpster, and using reusable cloth toilet paper!

Wardrobe replacement

Ever since Jaxen was born we've attended these massive kids clothing resale weekends. They typically have them 2 times a year, fall and spring. Therefore you purchase enough items at the fall sale to last all winter and then in the spring sale you purchase summer clothes. When he was younger it was easier to find cute clothes still in great shape since they don't wear them as long and aren't as rough on their clothes. Now that my big man is in 3T the clothes are more worn and its harder to find "good" ones.
Yesterday we went to one of these sales and thankfully it was a huge success! We limited ourselves to getting items he needed! Not just bc something was cute! For instance we narrowed down our items to 10 long sleeve shirts, 6 church shirts, 2 zip up hoodies, etc. We still spent more then we came with but were so happy it was a success! We found him some Buzz Lightyear light up shoes for $4 and some cowboy boots for $5!
Last night after we cut the tags off and cleaned the shoes and threw the clothes in the wash machine I looked at Brandon and said, "when he's a freshman or sophomore and we have to spend $300 for back to school clothes to only get him 3 jeans, 6 shirts, and 2 pairs of shoes not counting the football gear, baseball cleats, and everything else in between we will be missing these days of dropping$120 twice a year for his wardrobe!"
It's so hard for me to clean out his closet twice a year with things that are too small to wear! I don't like packing away my favorites! Makes this momma sad!!