Mon-9-Jun-2008 - Grandfather Clocks

Does anyone have a grandfather clock? How did you get it? My sister-in-law has one. After browsing this website I must say that I wish I was around at the right time to hear it chime – I love to listen to clocks chime!

I also had no idea they could be so expensive or complicated to select one. I was a bit naïve in this area! I mean, there is a waterfall clock that is strikingly modern – although I really love all things traditional. So even if I was in the market for a traditional clock there are still lots of choices.

Okay, since we don’t have the money for such a piece of grandeur in our home right now, the next best thing is to go to this site and listen to chimes! You can hear Westminster, Whittington, and St. Michael’s chimes. At four different times, too! The newer clocks even have things like nighttime sensors that shut off the chimes. That would be lovely, as no one is really awake to appreciate the clock at night. Although when I’m awake with a sick young’in it might have a really soothing quality. The tick-tock and gentle chiming of the clock telling me that I’m not the only one awake and keeping the house from being hauntingly still!

In the meantime, until we can afford (and have the space!) for one of these beauties, I’ll have to make do with our silent, super-modern atomic clock. An atomic clock may not chime, but they are an awful lot of fun to watch when the batteries get low! They really get wonky!   

~Ashley~

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Fri-2-May-2008 - My Job (aka how we save money)

About a week ago I blogged about my husband's sweet response to the question "Do I work."

I always, always run across moms that are tryng to work from home. Last night Jonathan even ran across an article about "Mompreneurs" -  it seems that there are about 10 millon moms working from home with online businesses. So I guess it's no wonder that I keep running into those that want to join the ranks!

The pressure to bring "in" money, at least for me, is at times intense. It always sounds better to be able to say "I only make this much, ____, but it's better than nothing of course!"

Sometimes I think if I only made $40 a month it'd be grand. To not make anything? Nothing at all? It can make you feel like a leech, or a free-loader or a mooch. Because all you do when you stay home is spend, right?

Anyways, all of that to say that my primary job as Jonathan's wife is to be his wife and mother our children. Secondarily, I save him money.

Now, it's far less grandose than making money. "A penny saved it a penny earned". Well, it'd be far nicer to have a nice, tidy sum and be able to say that "I made $100 extra this month for us, honey!" rather than to spend a lot of my time saving us obscure amounts of money that of course, go mostly unnoticed.

But which is better, really? To make a hundred or save a hundred? Isn't it $100 either way?

Because I'm home, I nurse our babies. Which means we don't buy/store/clean all kinds of bottles and . . . and whatever else people use to make formula. Oh, and formula. We don't have to buy it, LOL.

Because our children are close together, they use a lot of the same stuff. And I actually feel okay bathing Elijah without a special thingy to sit him in, changing him without a wipe-warmer, and handing him the ring off of a canning jar to play with. Oh, and Samuel is learning to share his toys.

I had the time to print off a recipe for red enchilada sauce to make some the other day instead of running off to the store, which saves on gas, and those extra things you always buy are a few dollars more than you planned, too. The rescipe suprised me with how yummy it is and it doesn't have MSG, which just might make us a thread healthier in the long run, too.

I have time to hang the clothes on the line, to water the garden, and to just sit and mull on how I'm going store a 25# bag of basmati rice and another 50# bag of flour because the idea of food rationing , even if it is just rice and wheat, plain irks me.

Somewhere in here I just know I'm saving time, money, and shortcuts.

So even if you can't bring money in, maybe it's okay if you are doing your part to spend it a bit more wisely!

Ashley

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Tue-22-Apr-2008 - Do I Work?

We are in the middle of refinancing our home (we hope!) and Jonathan is also in the midst of changing jobs. Actually, he's put in his 2 weeks already!  He will have 4 days off in between coming up, plus the weekend, so I'm awefully tickled about that . . . .

So anyways, there have been a bunch of phone calls coming in asking for info. I think it was about the refinance that the question was asked:

"Does your wife work?"

I was in the kitchen keeping dinner simmering when I heard Jay say: "My wife works very hard."

I rather wondered what had prompted that question! I guess the poor fellow on the other end of the phone thought for a moment, then said, "Let me rephrase that, does she work outside the home for money?"

LOL

I just thought it was very sweet of my husband to respond the way he did when he asked "if I work". It put an extra spring in my step all evening!

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