Bohemian Bowmans

Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?

 

-Matthew 6:26

 

 

Okay, so I know it’s been a few, um, weeks since my last Birds Of The Air post. My bad. It’s been a hard month. First my back was all “I hate you! Die die die!”. Then as soon as I recovered from that my sinuses were all “I hate you! Die die die!” I’m still slowly recovering from that last assault on my life. Seriously. Sinus infections are the worst.

 

Okay so, we got another box full of rice and coffee goodness a couple weeks back. That makes a total of 20 lbs of rice that we got within about a week’s time. You’d think that would last awhile, but rice is my friend and I like to hang out with her a lot. Especially since we started cooking vegetarian I tend to rely on her. We’re already at least half through one bag.

 

 

I put out a few pleas for flour via the facebook fanpage last week and y’all came through. Back sometime in the end of 2012 you guys had sent a total of 75 lbs of flour. Well, we finally ran out. Thanks mostly do Twelve Year Old’s new affinity for baking. She’s a cookie and pancake making machine.

Unfortunately, we ran out with two Wild Boys staring down impending birthdays. That needed chocolate cake. A local friend saw my plea and came to the rescue with some whole wheat flour from her own cabinet that she had bought and abandoned once upon a time.

 

And another 25 lb bag came a bit later. The chocolate cake near catastrophe was saved.

 

 

Speaking of Wild Boy birthdays, Eight Year Old turned Nine and Six Year Old turned Seven.  They both may or may not have received candy from their great-grandma.

 

 

Their great grandma (and great aunt and uncle) pretty predictably send boxes for every holiday and birthday.

 

 

Their grandma also sent them backpacks, which they’ve been wanting for some reason. Silly homeschool kids. We’ll probably use them for hiking.

 

We’ve also had several dinners with friends lately. We’ve been in Canada for nearly a year and I’m still impressed that we manage to eat one meal out pretty much every week. We went to a spontaneous BBQ this past weekend on Nine Year Old’s birthday, which was the best party he could’ve asked for. Ten little boys jumping on the trampoline and eating hot dogs.

 

But the biggest Birds Of The Air moment in recent weeks is nitty gritty bank account related. We’ve been in Canada for exactly 11 months now and we’ve slowly but surely drained our savings. I’ve mentioned before that between Jeremy’s GI Bill and the small bit of money I bring in online, we make enough each month to almost cover our rent. Everything else, bills groceries, luxuries, slowly drain our account. Thanks to you people, that money has drained much much much slower than it should’ve.

A couple of weeks ago, for the first time since moving, we walked around with controlled anxiety just under the surface, knowing that there wasn’t enough money in the bank to cover our next rent check. Literally, within a week, we were reimbursed for some tuition from Jeremy’s school, and our tax return came in, weeks sooner than we expected it to.  Now we’re all, “Hallelujah, we’re rich! Let’s buy cheerios!”

 

Again, thank you guys so so so so (insert more so’s) for the help you’ve been so far in our journey. When we moved here we quickly realized that, not only could we not afford to keep spending like we had been in Georgia, but groceries were way more expensive here, to boot. (Seriously, cheese here costs 3 times what I was paying in Georgia. Needless to say, our cheese intake has reduced greatly) We would’ve run out of money months ago without you guys.

 

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Speaking of the awesome, if you’d like to help through our amazon.com grocery wishlist, we’re out of oatmeal (again. We burn through oatmeal, coffee, and peanut butter like crazy). The reason we use it up so fast is that we eat hot breakfast every morning (because to buy good old fashioned sugary delicious cereal in Canada cost roughly the price of your first born).

 

Twelve Year Old informs me that we’re out of chai. She drinks a cup of it every day so I reckon she finally slowly used up our last stash.

 

We’re also getting low on honey. Gotta have something to go in all that tea and on the peanut butter sandwiches.

 

I’ve also added a few new things like spaghetti, spaghetti sauce (we’re out of both) and a 72 pack of applesauce cups! Yay snacks! Click the link below to see our whole list.

 

Amazon Grocery Wishlist

Sorry this one was so long winded. That’s what happens when you don’t write for three weeks.

-Jessica