Less is more?

Ok yes, i am finally blogging, it has been what 5 months now. How time fly's. I have meant to blog before this but never seemed to get around to it.

So here i am actually blogging with a fresh new approach and new thoughts and ideas. Just like my new Years blog.

I have had allot of stuff happening lately, which i will re tell on another day. This blog is to just re state that i have been very lost lately but have found renewed passion and interest to do things " right".

Aim 1: To spend no more then $150 a week on groceries and stop buying take away ( this will defiantly help the budget and the waist line). So shopping back at Aldi i think

Aim 2: To eat healthy and walk everyday!

Aim 3: While we are eating healthy, i will be getting out all of cook books and looking for new ideas for dinners and snack. We are getting abit tired of the same old things, hence buying take away.

Aim 4: I do FDC, so i am home with the kids and i should be planning more and doing more creative things. SO i will plan my days more effectively for my son and for work. Craft, cleaning etc will all be incorporated.

Aim 5: I have a renewed passion for my job, so i am going to give it my all!@

Aim 6: Plan family activities, we don't need to spend money on the weekends to have fun.

So just a few new goals that are achievable if i stick with them.

I must say over the last week i had a life changing experience. I need to appreciate my life more and not take it for granted.
I do have a wonderful husband that is sweet and kind and is my best friend.
I have healthy and wonderful children, i thank god that they are not sick in a hospital, or that we are so poor in a third world country where they do not have enough to eat and have to go out and work at 6, cannot go to school and have a chance to be a child.
I have a nice house and belongings, we may not have a big backyard but it is what i make it! At least we have a house, and don't live in a hut with a dirt floor.
I am fat because i have lots of food readily available and i can afford it, we are not starving!

So there are many things in life that i have not be appreciating and i have been taking them all for granted. I am blessed to have a fantastic life, to be happy and healthy. I am blessed to have two children that are mainly always well behaved and who have good kind souls.

I believe that we do not need everything, the big tv's the big modern house, the boat, the best car. My aim is to see if less really is more, by trying not to buy so many material possession's, we can certainly make do with what we have.
To not spend a fortune on junk food and fast food, to start to cook more hearty healthy foods, to make my dinning table the place where my family and friends connect. Also buy not spending so much we will be saving.
To not spend so much money on the weekend entertaining the family, re invent games we like to play, enjoying doing simple things, in this way me just might find out less is more.

SO these are my goals and aims at the moment, lets see what journey they take me on.