I guess the details don't matter. The gist of my story is that THREE times (once due to bank error, once due to our error, and once due to our cell phone carrier's error) our money virtually dissappeared. I am trying to go with the philosophy that money never vanishes...in all three cases somebody was enriched. It wasn't me, unfortunately, but it will work itself out eventually.
I really do believe that it will work itself out, as long as I don't work myself into a panic, because as I've learned time and time and time (and time) again over the past two years, "all you have, is all you need".
So many times it appeared that we were Old Mother Hubbard with a bare cupboard but I would say a little prayer, look again, and be amazed to find that I could find a week's worth or more of healthy meals (or the makings of a much craved treat). Or I'll see that we only need a few more ingredients to make several meals and we'll suddenly have just enough money to buy said ingredients. Or we'll need the money to pay a school fee or the rent or the utility bill or gas to go where we need to go (right when our power is about to be shut off) and the money appears. Or someone will need a specific outfit for a school activity or a pair of cleats or something for a school project and I'll look in the basement/attic and discover that we already own exactly what we need.
It's become a mantra. Whenever I get worried or stressed about a seeming lack I'll mentally repeat "all you have, is all you need".
That's where the blog title comes from.
xoxo,
Molly
P.S. A recipe: One day I had a can of tomato sauce, a can of tuna fish, and several boxes of pasta. So I drained the tuna fish, and dropped it in a sauce pan to warm it. Then I added the tomato sauce, a clove of garlic, about 1/4 of an onion (diced very fine), a TBSP each of oregano, basil, and parsley and seasoned to taste with garlic and onion powder. I served it over spaghetti noodles and no one, not even my husband noticed that it was tuna fish and not ground beef. Delicious. Kind of creamy. Healthy aaaannnd cheap!
