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This morning the doorbell rang.  I was sitting at my desk in my robe, right after my shower without my hair or makeup done.  I ran to the bedroom and let Scott get the door.  It was a delivery of a box!  My favorite!  I couldn’t remember ordering anything but Scott said it had Emma and Lexi’s name on it.  Books!  A reader here and at my OTH blog, Carolyn was supposed to send books!

The girls were so excited!  They LOVE books.

They kept saying, “Oh, look at this one.”

They even had fun with the box of peanuts!

Thank you so much, Carolyn!  The girls have been looking through them and carrying them around all morning.

You guys have heard me talk about all my CVS savings and Triple Coupon sales I go to.  I looked at my CVS receipt the other day and I have saved over $2,000 just this year.  I learned all of that from Crystal at moneysavingmom.com.  She is running a sale TODAY ONLY where you can get an incredible ebook package–over $100 worth of money-saving ebooks, homemaking helps, and encouragement for only $5.97!

The ebook package includes the ecourse Supermarket Savings 101 which I’ve bought in the past and it is excellent for beginners on how to reduce your grocery bill in half.  It includes a ton of other books from starting a business to how to make bread.

Go here to read more about the sale!

First and probably last Q&A.  Thanks to the three souls that had mercy on me and asked me a question.  I really didn’t want to write about Krispy Kreme donuts.  Especially since I had a egg and cheese biscuit this morning.

First, Jen asked me:

What is your favorite book of the bible, and why?

If I only had one book to read from here on out, I think it would be Proverbs.  Obviously, filled with so much wisdom, it would take a lifetime to learn to put it into practice.

Carolyn asks:

How did you decide to start blogging?   It seems like you have been at it for at least a few years and I wonder with two pre-schoolers how you find the time!

I actually have been blogging since before kids!  It was six years this year.  (A lot of my archives were removed from the site during a server move.) Blogs at that time were very, very basic and few and far between.  I’ve always journaled and wanted to start doing it on the computer.  I think I even started typing it up in Word but I think I eventually googled online journals and then welcomed myself into the world of blogging.  I didn’t tell anyone for YEARS that I was blogging.  For a long time, it was something personal and a way to vent.  Finally last year, I started telling more people about it.  As for time now, I usually blog late at night.

Dwight didn’t go easy on me:

Are you happy?

What scares me is this wasn’t an easy question to answer.  I really had to think about this.  I think “happy” implies so many things.  Am I happy as in not mad or not sad or not depressed?  In that case, I am.  Do I dance around in joy all the time because my life is so perfect?  Hardly.  I find myself in a state of discontent often.  Sometimes I feel like there’s something more or different I should be doing.  Although I love my job at times, sometimes I’m very unhappy with that.  Sometimes I’m unhappy about our marriage.  Anyone around us knows we know how to “discuss” things.  I wonder what our problem is.  Sometimes I’m unhappy about the kind of mother I am.  I don’t feel like I give them enough time or attention or I’m not doing it quite right.  A lot of times I’m not happy with my spiritual life.  I’m not reading or praying enough or doing enough.  And yet, at times, I sit back and am astonished at all I have.  I feel so lucky and definitely happy with what I have.  My family, my house, our vehicles, our jobs, our children, our church.  So many things to be grateful for.  And with a quick look at Webster’s happy is “enjoying or characterized by well-being and contentment”, I think I said all of that to say yes, I’m happy.

I have practically nothing interesting to talk about from the weekend.  Our church’s potluck dinner this afternoon and birthday dinner for my dad tonight was about the highlight and while it was certainly a good time, not necessarily blogworthy.  And I have to go into the office tomorrow so unless I plan to blog about meetings and Krispy Kreme donuts tomorrow, it could be boring once again so I’m going to do something I haven’t done before…ask you to ask me questions.  Anything you want.  Leave a comment here (can be anonymous, I don’t care) or email me at amyjbennett@gmail.com and I’ll try to answer them tomorrow night.

And just because I feel I should, this one stuck out to me as well…

If you want to be a spiritual warrior, forgive your enemies.

Mark 11:25 And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins.

Ironically, this quote from a sermon I listened to stuck out to me…

Quit paying money to get a word from someone else.  Get on your knees and ask the Creator.

Ouch.

Luke 11:9 And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

It’s been a slow day.  A slow week for that matter.  Lexi has had a temperature all week.  Today even it was back up to 104.7.  So we haven’t been going out a lot.  Besides the fact I was SO tired of eating out and ready to be at home.  It’s been so quiet around here that the highlight of the day was probably Emma and Lexi reading through the new ABC catalog that came in the mail today.

Ya’ll enjoy your weekend, k?