{"id":436,"date":"2012-07-24T12:34:11","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T12:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coffeefreakdesigns.com\/teenstotsandeverythinginbetween\/?p=436"},"modified":"2012-07-24T12:34:11","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T12:34:11","slug":"random-tuesday-thoughts-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/?p=436","title":{"rendered":"Random Tuesday Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>My house is really really quiet at 8:17am!!! Why? Because this week our church is having Vacation Bible School. The kids spend from 9-12 for 5 days at church learning, doing crafts and playing games. This year the theme is &#8220;Jesus is My Rock&#8221;\u00a0 Haley is the official nursery person and a general helper. Matt is in charge of games. On Monday, they had 116 kids!\u00a0 From everything I have seen and heard is was awesome. All the kids were singing new songs first thing this morning.<\/li>\n<li>This week has also turned out to be one of the busiest of the summer. In addition to VBS, Monday Lily had cheerleading, I went to pick tomatoes. Tuesday\u00a0Matt has a meeting tonight at church. Wednesday we have to mow our jungle aka yard and pick tomatoes again.<\/li>\n<li>My brother is gone with his church on a youth trips so he suggested I come over and claim as many tomatoes as I wanted. Yesterday, I picked 8 gallons. I am so excited about this because we\u00a0 now have 15 cans of diced tomatoes in our freezer. By the looks of the vines, I probably will pick another 5 gallons on Wednesday, with the plan of a another batch of Salsa. I need to check again on Friday,if I can pick another 3 gallons then those will be used for more diced\/stewed tomatoes.<\/li>\n<li>We have several answers to prayer this week, first we received\u00a0out of the blue a check to cover the purchase of VBS\u00a0t-shirts, and the above tomatoes are another. I have been praying for some\u00a0extra tomatoes, I have even debated on purchasing some\u00a0 to freeze. We typically use at least one recipe a week that calls for 1-2 cans of diced tomatoes. My goal this summer was to get a stock pile in the freezer to save this cost.<\/li>\n<li>The food co-op ended this week, but I was able to add a batch of salsa and another 4 ears of corn frozen. We will be using some of the corn this week as side dishes as well.<\/li>\n<li>I will be updating on my <a href=\"http:\/\/teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.blogspot.com\/2012\/07\/grocery-shopping-challenge.html\" target=\"_blank\">Grocery Store Challenge<\/a>\u00a0tomorrow, but to be honest it has been a little bit difficult for me. I currently have a list, of items we are completely out of and my goal is to stay under the budget and purchase all the items. If I were not doing the challenge, I definitely would have already gone and purchased these items because I consider most of them staples. So the challenge is working, but not as easy as it sounds.<\/li>\n<li>Nothing new is happening with the renovation simply because we don&#8217;t have the time. I am being to wonder if it will be finished before my week of vacation or if it will become the way I spent my vacation?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My house is really really quiet at 8:17am!!! Why? 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