Exceptions to the Rules?
Do I have any exceptions? I have tried hard not to, but I do have 2....
1 - I can buy from the Dollar General in my local tiny town. It needs my tax dollars big time. No other Dollar Generals, but only the one in Luther.
2 - We travel a lot for baseball. There are times when I need to run and get something while in another state or another town 100's of miles away. I am not sure I will have time to locally source something I need. I will try to find a Braums or an Oklahoma company, but I may not be able to and then I will do what is expedient. I just will. But if I plan well enough, there should be nothing I need save ice ;) And that can be from any local gas station.
I do not want to create too many exemptions. I want this to be hard. I want to have to think ahead and plan accordingly. I want to be able to begin convos with my kids regarding what we buy, where and why.
But as I learned through 7, there is a learning curve, and then it just becomes the way it is. I ate 7 foods. I just took them with me and I ate a lot of apples with raw almond butter. It wasn't hard - it was what it was. I imagine this the same way. I pray it is the same way. I pray in March, I am not still struggling to find a groove. I pray I am not counting down weeks next November. I want this to become my life.
I will go into Target again. I will. But I do not want it to be my default. I want it to be my last resort. I want Starbucks to be my third choice after I was running late and didn't get coffee made and my local is closed until 1:00 on Sunday.
1 - I can buy from the Dollar General in my local tiny town. It needs my tax dollars big time. No other Dollar Generals, but only the one in Luther.
2 - We travel a lot for baseball. There are times when I need to run and get something while in another state or another town 100's of miles away. I am not sure I will have time to locally source something I need. I will try to find a Braums or an Oklahoma company, but I may not be able to and then I will do what is expedient. I just will. But if I plan well enough, there should be nothing I need save ice ;) And that can be from any local gas station.
I do not want to create too many exemptions. I want this to be hard. I want to have to think ahead and plan accordingly. I want to be able to begin convos with my kids regarding what we buy, where and why.
But as I learned through 7, there is a learning curve, and then it just becomes the way it is. I ate 7 foods. I just took them with me and I ate a lot of apples with raw almond butter. It wasn't hard - it was what it was. I imagine this the same way. I pray it is the same way. I pray in March, I am not still struggling to find a groove. I pray I am not counting down weeks next November. I want this to become my life.
I will go into Target again. I will. But I do not want it to be my default. I want it to be my last resort. I want Starbucks to be my third choice after I was running late and didn't get coffee made and my local is closed until 1:00 on Sunday.
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