Not taking a family vacation, you know the 5 to 7 day vacation kind, for two years hasn't been a highlight for me. We also haven't made the trip to visit my sister in Chicago for two years now. Before this the kids and I (sometimes Justin) visited Chicago every summer for 7 years! Due to everything from financial limitations at times.......... to Justin not feeling like he could take any time off work have resulted in our travel drought.
Now don't feel sorry for us.....that's not what I am trying to say at all. We have gone on some fun trips just Justin and I and we have taken many simple camping trips or weekend trips with the kids over the past two years. So we have been having fun just no Chicago and no full fledged family vacation!
It just seems like every family vacation we have planned hasn't worked out. San Diego trip for last Labor day weekend didn't work out. Then Lego Land didn't work out for Spring Break like planned because Justin couldn't get away from the company. That trip was postponed to the summer..........well that never happened. Justin just didn't feel like he could take a full week off this summer. Heck he barely made it to one baseball game for Hunter and Logan during the whole season.
Justin and I decided that due to our missing out on our traditional Chicago trips and no big family vacations we'd invest that money saved in something that would benefit our family greatly. We also decided to skip giving each other birthday gift this past year and put that money towards our goal as well.
So after months and months and months of research (Justin is a Research King) ...............we invested in Our Family Year Supply!
It is very exciting to finally have a full years worth of food for our family and know that it doesn't need to be rotated!!! We still need to work on adding more water to our year supply and other items as well.........always something to work on right!
One of the best advantages of this type of year supply is that the food doesn't go bad for 25 year AND Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, Zip-a-dee-ay......it doesn't need to be rotated. Actually in 25 years the food won't be "bad" it just starts to loose it's nutritional value. But less nutritious food verses no food at all........that's a no brainer!
We liked this company first because it was the most affordable one, second it comes in nice plastic buckets so no mice or bugs can get in. They are all in individual meal bags as well, inside the buckets. All you have to do is add warm water to the packets and wait a few minutes and it's ready. The few samples Justin and I tried were actually quite good! Third you can order it in any amount you wish. A lot of the companies we looked at you had to buy at least a 3 month supply, but these guys let you buy in a month supply, if you wish.
I am grateful to have invested our "fun money" in something that for years and years the prophets and apostles have commanded us to work on getting. I believe we are blessed, regardless of the quantity of our year supply, but on our endeavours to follow the counsel given!!
So I guess no vacations paid off this time. Now we just need to pay the remainder off our credit card and life will be good!
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