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One of my favorite sayings :)
Adapt and grow :)

Frugal time use would be a good topic, imho. My time is way more precious than my money! There are just too many things to try and cram into a day! Today for example, I went clamming first thing – it’s about a 1.5 mile walk out on the sandbar thru mucky sand and that’s my exercise – plus I get clams during the walk. Pumped sand shrimp and went fishing – no luck, but fun. Cleaned clams. Had a dehydrator going full of celery par cel for winter stews and jarred it up at the end of the day. Cut up 3 turkey breasts (from a sale) and canned the meat. Then pressure cooked the bones down for soup. Outside it was water the stuff in the greenhouse and plant the rest of the garden. Cut some poles out of old cedar fence posts and made teepees for the green runner beans. Then I babysat the grandkids from 5-9 – we made fresh potato salad, fried fish and fried clam strips, and a fresh rhubarb-strawberry cobbler for dessert. Needless to say, it was a full day :)
Oh yeah, there was a load of laundry and dishes in there somewhere also…So….. any tips about frugal time use would be great :)

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My piece of advice: schedule at least two hours of “quiet time” into the mid-afternoon. Your older child can use it for reading and the younger can either nap or read to themselves, play with puzzles. I don’t use the time for the same thing everyday, and lately it has tended to be my time to take care of whatever is most pressing due to some family obligations :(, but it definitely necessary for your sanity!

I also schedule two 10 minute “activity breaks” into the morning – young boys REALLY need them. I require running, bike riding etc during that time – it really is great for getting the kids focused and it gives you 10 minutes to prep for something or get some housework done.

I was one of the first to move far away. I lived on the East Coast, and now California. I had no idea what metro areas were like, It was really scary. I became acutely aware of economic and social disparity. I learned what it was like to compete with lots of other people. At the same time I learned about people from other countries whom lived there, about other religions, other types of food and people with many different opinions. It really opened up my world and let me see a bigger picture.

It also made me appreciate what life was like back home and to recognize many of the things I simply took for granted, such as affordability, people who were more friendly and of course the regional Southern food you can’t get anywhere else.

I don’t love change either. But its been a great learning experience for me. I think the more experiences people have, the better they are in being able to see other points of view and to maybe see why one group or person might have the opinions they have.

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@Carrie – Morning time will definitely be important. I’m worthless without the morning coffee. I find I’m not really creative in the morning though, so I’ll probably have to write posts at night or on weekends, like you suggested. I mostly write at night now anyway. But I do all the techy stuff during the day, and that will need to change.

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