Treasure Trekking

Today I called my sister-in-law to catch-up and to see how my favorite niece did in her first day of preschool. Gosh I miss her chubby cheeks! As she and I were exchanging stories of what our kids are up to and our new "normals",  I told her that today the kids and I started our Community Bible Study class and how that was the last item on our "list" to put us back into our school routine.

As I have been talking about stretching myself to places I have never been and/or doing things that have only crossed my mind, I was shocked at this year's theme for our Bible study...Trekking for Treasure. All of the things that our lead teacher was mentioning that we will cover in the course of 8 months and 5 Old Testament books made me stop and think. 'Wow! All the things that she is mentioning almost coincide with what I have been writing about for the past 4 days.'

So on our way home, I was discussing the remainder of the day with our SG and politely yet pointedly asked, "What are we having for dinner to go with our movie night?" (At our house, family movie night is generally on Thursdays since Daddy has Fridays off.) That is when it hit me. I have been doing really good all week about diverting the thoughts of going to the grocery store but today the temptation became very high. I really just wanted to go and pick up the ingredients for homemade pizza and be done with it!

But once again, my competitive nature kicked in and started talking to me. "Make this into something fun...go on a "treasure hunt" and see what you can come up with for dinner?" After all, my pantry looks nothing like Old Mother Hubbard's at ALL. So I went treasure trekking! Came up with not one but 3 options for dinner. So my little chef will help pick one of the three options and you will find out tomorrow what was chosen:
1) Baked Mac 'N Cheese with green beans
2) Chicken Parm. Wraps with green beans
3) Breakfast: scrambled eggs, waffles and fruit

Realizing once again the over abundance of blessings in my life!

Cupful of Blessings,
Carri